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kphoen/vex
==========

Extract videos from any URL

1.1.5(11y ago)243491MITPHP

Since Jan 6Pushed 9y ago3 watchersCompare

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[](#vex---parse-any-video-url-)

**Vex** is a PHP library to extract a video from any URL.

Supported Services
------------------

[](#supported-services)

For each video-sharing website of the following list, a *Platform* class can identify a supported URL and extract the video data.

- [Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/)
- [Dailymotion](http://www.dailymotion.com/)
- [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com/)
- [Wat](http://wat.tv/)
- [Rutube](http://rutube.ru/)
- [Qip](http://qip.ru/)
- [Veevr](http://veevr.com/)
- [TagTele](http://www.tagtele.com/)
- ... more to come

Status
======

[](#status)

This project is **DEPRECATED** and should NOT be used.

If someone magically appears and wants to maintain this project, I'll gladly give access to this repository.

Installation
============

[](#installation)

The recommended way to install Vex is through composer.

```
{
    "require": {
        "kphoen/vex": "1.1.*"
    }
}
```

If you don't use neither **Composer** nor a *ClassLoader* in your application, just require the provided autoloader:

```
require_once 'src/autoload.php';
```

You're done.

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

```
use Vex\Vex;

$adapter = new \Vex\HttpAdapter\BuzzHttpAdapter();
$platform = \Vex\Platform\RutubePlatform($adapter);
$vex = new Vex($platform);

$video = $vex->extract('https://rutube.ru/video/b5a392c180ddfe3e1ebded38f9f9dc52/');

// Show the video title
echo $video->getTitle();
// Shows the embedded video HTML
echo $video->getCode();
// Show the video link
echo $video->getLink();
// Show the video duration
echo $video->getDuration();
// Show the video thumbnail
echo $video->getThumb();

$url = $vex->reverse('');
// shows http://rutube.ru/video/9f4dc6bc2db6b6051ea07fb20234c6cc/
echo $url
```

Tests
=====

[](#tests)

To run unit tests, you'll need cURL and a set of dependencies you can install using Composer:

```
php composer.phar install --dev
```

Once installed, just launch the following command:

```
phpunit
```

Credits
=======

[](#credits)

- [Kévin Gomez](https://github.com/K-Phoen/)
- [William Durand](https://github.com/willdurand/) - for the `HttpAdapter` part, which was borrowed from [Geocoder](https://github.com/willdurand/Geocoder)
- [Jérôme Tamarelle](https://github.com/GromNaN/) - to whom I borrowed this README

License
=======

[](#license)

Vex is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.

###  Health Score

33

—

LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity21

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity68

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~95 days

Recently: every ~118 days

Total

8

Last Release

4210d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/66958?v=4)[Kévin Gomez](/maintainers/K-Phoen)[@K-Phoen](https://github.com/K-Phoen)

---

Top Contributors

[![K-Phoen](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/66958?v=4)](https://github.com/K-Phoen "K-Phoen (52 commits)")

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Tags

urlparservideoextractordailymotionrutube

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