ufXtract

UfXtract is an API that extracts microformats from web pages, HTML fragments or HTML files. It can output the results in JSON, XML or text. There is JSON-P support for use with JavaScript. You can also download the .Net code from GitHub.

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Extract microformats from a URL

Extract microformats from HTML fragment

Extract microformats from HTML file

Example API call

https://ufxtract.com/api/?url=http://microformats.org/&format=hcard&output=json

API parameters

url: The address of the web page containing the microformats
htmlfragment: A piece of HTML containing the microformats. This can be a fragment of HTML.
file: A HTML file or zipped HTML file containing microformats. In zipped files name of the HTML document should be index.html. You can must use a Form POST to send a file.
originurl: The URL of any HTML fragment. Is used to resolve relative path information.
format: The type of microformat you want to parse. This can be a single microformat name or a comma delimited list of names. The currently supported names are: hcard, xfn, hreview, hcalendar, hatom, hresume, geo, adr, tag, nofollow, license, directory, home, enclosure, votelinks, test-suite and test-fixure.
output: The type of output ie xml, json or text
callback: A JSON-P function name to wrap the data in. Only works when the output is set to JSON
report: Returns a summary of parsing information

Example JSON output

{
  "microformats": {
    "vcard": [{
      "fn": "Tantek",
      "nickname": ["Tantek"],
      "photo": ["http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/02cd45622e90350cc061aaaa02229195?s=16&d=http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=16&r=PG"],
      "url": ["http:\/\/tantek.com\/"]
    }]
  }
}

Errors

{
  "microformats": {
    "errors": [{
      "msg": "Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed.",
      "url": "http:\/\/"
    }]
  }
}

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Powerful, easy to use .Net microformats parser