getURLinfo
alphagetURLinfo is a webservice that when given a URL retrieves useful and visual information about it.
Usage
(http|https)://geturlinfo.appspot.com/yourURL?format=(xml|json|yaml)&callback=yourCallback
Format is optional (XML is the default), callback used for JSON only. Check out the examples, and response documentation, and FAQs.
Stats
- URLs served
- 1143
Services supported
- Almost all URL shortening services (digg bar sucks)
Flickr
YouTube
BBC iPlayer
Vimeo
eBay
Twitter
Google Finance
Wikipedia
Google Maps
Services planned
Service that will probably be added in the future, and the type of object they will return
- Journalism article
- posterous, Tumblr, Guardian, Wordpress hosted blogs, Slideshare, Scribd, more?
- Weather location
- BBC Weather, Weather.com, Yahoo
- Finance company
- Yahoo Finance, MSN Money, AOL Finance, CNN Money, Reuters
- Mapping location
- Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, MapQuest
- Video sharing video
- Hulu, Viddler, Funny or Die, Qik, more?
- Shopping product
- Amazon, more?
- Photo sharing image
- SmugMug, Twitpic, yfrog, tweetPhoto, Picasa
- Profiles identity
- Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google, Windows Live ID, loads more?
Upcoming features
Some of these things might find their way into this product:
- More/better caching and cache control
- Fields from the URL's HEAD returned
- PHP serialised array response format
- Internationalisation of responses
- Limiting resultsets for speed
Issues
- Doesn't handle more than 2 redirects on a URL (for speed)
- Rate limiting on some service frontends and APIs causes unexpected results