Get all informations you need from an URL

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Just run the following command: composer require ludovicm67/url-explorer to add it to your PHP project!

Running the following code:

<?php
require('./vendor/autoload.php'); // include here composer autoloader!
use ludovicm67\Url\Explorer\Explorer;
echo new Explorer("https://github.com/ludovicm67/php-url-explorer");

will give you something like:

{
 "code": 200,
 "title": "ludovicm67/php-url-explorer",
 "description": "php-url-explorer - Get all informations you need from an URL",
 "img": {
 "url": "https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/9420561?v=3&s=400",
 "width": 250,
 "height": 250,
 "mime": "image/png"
 },
 "type": "small",
 "url": {
 "request": "https://github.com/ludovicm67/php-url-explorer",
 "final": "https://github.com/ludovicm67/php-url-explorer",
 "base": "github.com"
 },
 "updated": "2017年06月05日T20:11:27+00:00"
}

You can get by default all the following informations from a URL:

• code: the HTTP code from the request
• title: the title of the page
• description: the webpage description
• img: an image representing the webpage; if equals null, no image available, else it will give you:
  • url: the url of the image
  • width: the width of the image
  • height: the height of the image
  • mime: the mime type of the image
• type: the type of card to display. It can have the following values:
  • image: the URL is an image
  • none: no information found
  • basic: only a title and maybe a description was found (no image)
  • small: an image was found, but it's small
  • large: if the image has a width >= 400 and height >= 200
• url: here are some useful URL:
  • request: the URL used for the request
  • final: the final URL, after some redirections
  • base: the hostname of the final URL
• updated: the time at the UTC timezone when the informations were fetched (can be useful if you cache the results somewhere)