A CFC that scrapes information from a given URL.
The use of ScrapeCFC requires Adobe ColdFusion 9+ or Railo 4. I have only test this on Railo so far, but believe it to work fine on ACF.
This script makes use of a Java class loader and a Java library known as jSoup. Combining these tools, we are able to extract information from a URL relatively easily.
There is only one public function getData() which can return either a ColdFusion structure, or JSON, when providing a URL and the output argument.
The following code assumes that your files are placed in a folder called lib, in your web root.
<cfparam name="url.url" type="string" default="" /> <cfset scrape = new lib.scrape() /> <cfdump var="#scrape.getData(url.url, "json")#" />
This CFC returns Meta, Open Graph and Image information. Think of it more as a tool to scrape a summary of a web page, rather than the entire web page itself.
The aim of this project was to acheive a similar scraping tool to that of Facebook; users sharing links on their timeline.