No info is returned

[howells]

I can't seem to get this gem to work as expected. Even with API keys specified for YouTube and Vimeo, I can't return any info at all.

VideoInfo.new("https://vimeo.com/177713990")

simply returns

#<VideoInfo:0x007fdf416feeb0 @provider=#<VideoInfo::Providers::Vimeo:0x007fdf416fe7f8 @options={"User-Agent"=>"VideoInfo/2.6.1"}, @url="https://vimeo.com/177713990", @video_id="177713990">>

The same applies for all providers, and all videos. Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

[thibaudgg]

Seems normal, all data are eager loaded when you first requests them.
What happens if you try VideoInfo.new("https://vimeo.com/177713990").title ?

[howells]

Oh, apologies - I didn't realise that, assumed it would return everything - works perfectly ;-)

[howells]

Sorry - closed to soon. Almost me misunderstanding something, but I can't seem to return any info in my Rails app.

In a video model:

VideoInfo.provider_api_keys = { youtube: ENV['YOUTUBE_API_KEY'], vimeo: ENV['VIMEO_API_KEY'] }

video = VideoInfo.new(self.url)

self.video_url              = self.url
self.provider               = video.provider
self.video_id               = video.video_id
self.title                  = video.title
self.description            = video.description
self.duration               = video.duration
self.remote_thumbnail_url   = video.thumbnail_large
self.remote_image_url       = video.thumbnail_large
self.embed_url          = video.embed_url
self.embed_code             = video.embed_code

yet all of the video attributes return null. The same url and code works perfectly in console, i.e. attributes are returned no problem.

Any ideas?

[howells]

Oh it turns out I'm getting the error in my app - unexpected network error while fetching information about the video - but not on the console. This is my local dev machine; are you aware of issues when developing locally?

[howells]

Somehow it's working now! No idea why it wasn't before.