mf2/shim

A parsing library for parsing pages from a few common non-mf2 sites into the mf2 structure

php-mf2-shim

An extension for php-mf2 which screen-scrapes some sites which don’t support microformats2 into canonical microformats data structures to make them easy to consume., _(*1)

Supported sites:, _(*2)

• twitter.com — tweets are parsed as h-entries with h-card authors, replies to tweets on permalink pages are parsed
• facebook.com — post permalink pages are parsed as h-entries with h-card authors

Work-in-progress:, _(*3)

• instagram.com — no support right now

Installation

Install php-mf2-shim with Composer by adding "mf2/shim": "0.2.*" to the require object in your composer.json and running php composer.phar update., _(*4)

You could install it by just downloading php-mf2, /Mf2/functions.php, /Mf2/Shim/*.php and including those, but please use Composer. Seriously, it’s amazing., _(*5)

Usage

mf2-shim is PSR-0 autoloadable, so all you have to do to load it is:, _(*6)

• Include Composer’s auto-generated autoload file (/vendor/autoload.php)
• Call Mf2\Shim\parseTwitter() or parseFacebook() with the HTML (or a DOMDocument), and optionally the URL to resolve relative URLs against.

Examples

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Mf2;

$output = Mf2\Shim\parseTwitter($html, $url);
$output = Mf2\Shim\parseFacebook($html, $url);

Changelog

v0.2.4

• Improved pre-processing of in-tweet links, removing twitter gunk and t.co URLs for cleaner content.

v0.2.3

• TODO: what happened in this update? It exists but the changelog wasn’t updated.

v0.2.2

• Twitter parsing improved, now parses profile h-card and h-entries successfully from profile pages

v0.2.1

• Added first draft of support for Facebook post permalink shimming

v0.2.0 (BREAKING)

• Restructured things for consistency with php-mf2 v0.2.0
• Removed dependencies, now only depends on php-mf2
• Twitter parsing code tweet content is now an e-* dict containing html and value keys with raw and plaintext values, respectively

v0.1.0 (2013-06-07)

• Initial tagged release
• MIT Licenesed
• Twitter tests passing, Instagram test failing
• Tweet permalink page parsing working including authors and reply tweets