What is this file?
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You can query meta information about URL location by using this form or XMLRPC API. XMLRPC location is /xmlrpc and method is array app.query(string url)
Currently gets information about:
- HTTP headers
- MIME type without charset etc from headers
- HTML page's title, images (img src=), links (a href=), rss and atom feeds
- image width, height and type
- "Real URL" - query URL after redirects
- Page real size (max limited to 1 MB by Google when Content-Length header is not found)
- First 100 characters of text files
Intended usage: IRC client/bot scripts, web comment fields, articles, etc
TODO: caching, libmagic, IMDB, wikipedia
Software using "What is this file?"
IRC bot: Gozerbot's urlinfo plugin
- Pekka Järvinen, raspi.fi
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Updated 08-10-2009 06:01