Embedly API calls for Meteor

A simple Embedly package for Meteor.js. This lets you use the Extract and Embed APIs from Embedly to retrieve metadata and other good stuff from a URL. Disclaimer: this is my first Meteor package, so there are undoubtedly many better ways of doing things. Open to suggestions and would love help!

Setup

In order to use this, you'll need an Embedly API Key and set it in your Meteor.settings file.

1. Install the package

Just run meteor add mswartz:embedly

2. Get an API Key:

here: http://embed.ly/api

3. Fill in Meteor.settings

Create a settings.json file in your app with the following structure:

{
	"public": {
		"embedlyApiKey": "b4853d518e7847378a1fb018fba95878"
	}
}

Or like this if you don't want to use Embedly from the client:

{
	"embedlyApiKey": "b4853d518e7847378a1fb018fba95878"
}

Then run your app and initialize the settings with this command: meteor --settings settings.json if that's what your json file is called and that's where it lives, in this example at the root.

Usage

Once the package is installed and you've entered your API key, you're ready to roll. Call the Extract function with Embedly.extract(url) and call the Embed function with Embedly.embed(url). This will return JSON with all kinds of data about the link you pass it.

Docs are here:

• Extract
• Embed

ToDos:

I'll explore adding more parameter granularity to the calls, and maybe implement the Display API. Or if anyone wants to help add that stuff, that'd be great!

Testing:

I wasn't sure how to write tests for this without baking in an API key. Suggestions?

Thanks

To Jeff Vlahos (@jvlahos) for writing the original Embedly API calls that I swiped from his Courier project.