2 # Copyright Michael Orlitzky
4 # http://michael.orlitzky.com/
6 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
9 # (at your option) any later version.
11 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 # GNU General Public License for more details.
16 # http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html
21 class Howcast
< Website
23 VALID_HOWCAST_URL_REGEX
= /^(http:\/\
/)?(www\.)?howcast\.com\/videos\
/(\d+)-(.+)$/
25 def self.owns_url
?(url
)
26 return url
=~ VALID_HOWCAST_URL_REGEX
30 def get_video_url(url
)
31 # This regex just pulls out the video id
33 matches
= id_regex
.match(url
)
36 raise StandardError
.new('The URL is a valid Howcast URL, but does not match on the digit portion of the regex. Since the digit portion is a subset of the "valid" regex, this should never occur.')
40 return "http://media.howcast.com/system/videos/#{video_id}/#{video_id}.flv"