Parses URLs of social networks to extract IDs or screen names.
It does not get confused by child routes: you may also pass URLs like a user's twitter photo stream and the gem will extract their twitter ID .
Note that it just parses URLs, and does nothing magic like looking up IDs when the URL contains only a screen name (e.g. the Instagram API requires you to send the user ID almost always while you at first only know their screen name).
Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2014-07-23 07:03)