I am looking to integrate videos freely available on OTT platforms in India.
For example http://www.sonyliv.com/details/full%20movie/4709492313001/The-Butterflies-In-My-Head-%7C-Short-Film
However this is the web link to the video file. I am not able to fetch the media link to this and all such videos. Is it possible to do what I am trying and if so what should my direction of implementation be
I think if you look at the terms of use on that site (which are at the bottom and are, not very helpfully, hidden every time you scroll down) the conditions don't really allow what you are proposing, other than by linking to their site as your link above does, or sharing via their share options (Google + and Facebook for the example you show above).
So you can solve this technically with varying degrees of ease, depending on whether the source sites hide the media manifest URL's or use dynamically generated URL's etc, but it's probably worth making sure you are not going to get into issues over rights first.
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My goal is to convert a block of text that is on the screen into an image and save it to the user's gallery (or downloads folder, or anywhere on there phone that allows them access to it)
On searching through the many many threads on this subject it seems the best way is to take a screenshot with the "camera".
However, the manual tells me to use Application.CaptureScreenshot but in unity it says that is depreciated.
All i can find on searching for alternatives are paid for assets (seems dodgy for something that should be so simple) and examples of using Application.CaptureScreenshot
ScreenCapture.CaptureScreenshot is what you are looking for now.
Is it possible to get a larger version of the favicon from the Google's api or from somewhere else?
This is the url.
http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=google.com
I searched for an alternative api on ProgrammableWeb and Google but many of them don't exist anymore and the one I found that actually seems to work isn't free. (http://grabicon.com/)
I need the icon for a VB.NET project that has a list of websites with icons. But 16x16 icons are too small for that.
looks like there is size parameter in google now.
https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain_url=yahoo.com
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The below answer is no longer valid, but the code is freely available on github:
Github -> Favicons for all!
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You can also try Statvoo's Favicon API, e.g.
https://api.statvoo.com/favicon/?url=google.com
https://api.statvoo.com/favicon/?url=stackoverflow.com
etc..
They also have quite a few other API's you can use if you look around. Most of which are free and have been around for years.
Looks like Google has an size attribute too.
https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain_url=https://stackoverflow.com/
Here's some Favicon Fetchers I have found
Free Favicon-Service by AllesEDV.at - https://f1.allesedv.com/stackoverflow.com
Google Favicon Snatcher - https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=stackoverflow.com
Favicon Grabber - http://favicongrabber.com/api/grab/stackoverflow.com
For Favicon Grabber it will return as JSON list of icon URLs.
Alternatively you can load the main page of the site and figure it out from there: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1990487/
According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17190599:
Unless that endpoint can also return other resolutions, Favicon Kit
offers more: https://api.faviconkit.com/twitter.com/144
https://api.faviconkit.com/twitter.com/16
(Though, I will say, the URIs returned for Twitter and the image sizes
don't actually align in those cases. The first is actually 192ˣ192
pixels, and the second is 32ˣ32 pixels. That seems odd. Maybe they
should have endpoints like domain/large, domain/medium, domain/small?)
Favicons are specified either as part of the HTML page, the HTTP response to a request for a page, or simply by being hosted at a default location.
That's true for all sites. There's plenty of browser extensions that can help you figure out the favicons a page send, if you don't manage by hand. For example, right clicking in firefox, "Page Info", "Media", "sort by type"->"Icon" should show all icons that a browser can find. It's not usual to have Icons larger than 32x32, and google might not be an exception.
Also be aware that the .ico format can contain multiple Icon sizes that not all tools show. So saving that .ico on your computer and inspecting it with a tool known to deal with all sizes contained in a single file might help.
Last word of advice: You're dealing with the logo, the very core of their brand, of a multi-billion dollar company. You might want to check with their policy of using that logo in your project. Probably it's OK (for example, browser don't seem to get in trouble for having a google logo for their google search box), but I'd still take care not to raise the impression that you're association a product of your own making with their logo.
Facebook recently announced the introduction of messenger codes which can be used to add new contacts and, more importantly, communicate directly with businesses and business pages (which is why I'm interested in it).
It took me ages to find it but on the bottom left of the messages tab on my Facebook page I have the option to download my code in three different sizes - clicking the disc will open a modal window where you can click the Download button and choose from 300, 600 or 1000px PNG file downloads.
NOTE: While they are PNG files the background is not transparent which seems like a bit of an oversight to me but hey ho that's what Photoshop is for I guess.
The problem is that while I can download my code I can't find any way to test it on printed materials (or even electronically at the moment!). The scanning feature doesn't seem to have been rolled out for me yet (I tried re-installing the Messenger app to see if I got a newer version but that didn't work) and nor for anyone I know (I'm in the UK). The codes are bespoke to Messenger so can't be scanned or tested using any other app.
I'm probably too far ahead of the game but is there any way I can test to see if my code scans correctly, or anywhere I can go to find out? I would like to use it on some promotional material which is likely to be long term materials that I don't want to have to update in the near future (several years, by which time it's likely these codes will be more commonplace).
I also need to know what the redundancy is like. For example the high redundancy QR codes I generate can have up to 30% of the code covered while still being usable, which is great for design purposes. I can't find any official documentation as yet for these codes at all, let alone what is required, what the spec. is etc.
I know the most likely option is 'sit and wait' but I really would rather not if possible. I've never been very patient...
Thanks
UPDATE: My Messenger app has now been updated so I can test, but I'm leaving this here in case anyone knows of another way to test perhaps? If someone doesn't have Messenger on their phone for example.
I recently was requested to put together a Flash site. Since I did that, I of course need to follow up with sister site that will work with handheld devices etc.
I put a site together which looks, for example, fantastic on the Blackberry, but the resolution of an iphone is so good that the site looks microscopic. What is an elegant way to deal with these resolution disparities?
Also, I just used PHP to check the browser type and feed different pages based on that, I didn't actually make a mobile subdomain or use special mobile code.. those days are over right? Or am I committing semantic crimes by treating it like a normal-but-different website?
Thanks for everyone's input.
CSS Media Queries were specifically designed to solve this problem.
Check out the article on Responsive Web Design over at A List Apart
Example site: A List Apart CSS Media Query Example
Another great example/tutorial: http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css3-media-queries
another: http://hicksdesign.co.uk/
another: http://colly.com/
Resize the width and height of this window to see what the media queries are doing. (also, view the underlying css)
I want to build an iPhone app that is really a wrapper around a wiki. Specifically, I have some static reference content that can be represented by a hyperlinked set of pages and want to build an app that will provide a nice interface over this content, including search, bookmarking, and annotating. I'm wondering what the best approach is for building something like this.
(I'm spent a fair bit of time googling for answers but pretty much every combination of search terms I can think of returns links to wikis, not links about putting a wiki into an app).
Are there libraries out there for handling wiki content (rendering, navigating links etc.)? I imagine I could just represent my content as a set of local HTML pages and point the web browser control at these but that doesn't seem right. Any ideas on how best to approach this in the iOS world?
Thanks in advance!
Try looking at TWedit, it is a wrapper for the excellent TiddlyWiki which is a single file WIKI built around JavaScript and HTML. TW is very powerful and well supported with many plugins available.