Get image thumbnails from Rumble? - swift

Question

I want to get a thumbnail image for videos from Rumble.
When getting images from Youtube I just do like this:
https://img.youtube.com/vi/f3ZccBBjmQg/0.jpg
Want to same from Rumble video url-
https://rumble.com/vxhedt-80000-matches-chain-reaction-domino-effect.html?mref=7ju1&mc=4w36m

Answer 1

I checked the rumble webpage of the link you provided. I am not sure if there is a smarter/faster way but here is a way to get the thumbnailUrl from their html code.
func getThumbnailFromRumble() {
let url = URL(string:"https://rumble.com/vxhedt-80000-matches-chain-reaction-domino-effect.html?mref=7ju1&mc=4w36m")!
URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url){ data, response, error in
guard error == nil else { return }
guard let httpURLResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse,
httpURLResponse.statusCode == 200,
let data = data else {
return
}
let str = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8) // get the htm response as string
let prefix = "\"thumbnailUrl\":"
let suffix = ",\"uploadDate\""
let matches = str?.match("(\(prefix)(...*)\(suffix))")
if let thumbnailUrlMatch = matches?.first?.first {
let thumbnailUrl = thumbnailUrlMatch
.replacingOccurrences(of: prefix, with: "") // remove prefix from urlstring
.replacingOccurrences(of: suffix, with: "") // remove suffix from urlstring
.replacingOccurrences(of: "\"", with: "") // remove escaping characters from urlstring
if let url = URL(string: thumbnailUrl),
let data = try? Data(contentsOf: url) {
let uiImage = UIImage(data: data)
// use the uiimage
}
}
}.resume()
}
I use this extension to get the necessary string part from the html response
extension String {
func match(_ regex: String) -> [[String]] {
let nsString = self as NSString
return (try? NSRegularExpression(pattern: regex, options: []))?.matches(in: self, options: [], range: NSMakeRange(0, nsString.length)).map { match in
(0..<match.numberOfRanges).map { match.range(at: $0).location == NSNotFound ? "" : nsString.substring(with: match.range(at: $0)) }
} ?? []
}
}
Feel free to improve the code.