Note: I am inexperienced with APIs, JSON, REST, etc.
I am trying to implement FilePreviews into my site. Its purpose is to take the url for any file type and convert it into a JPG or PNG.
JavaScript
var previews = new FilePreviews({
debug: true,
apiKey: 'MY_API_KEY'
});
var url = 'http://i.imgur.com/HQB8wtI.jpg';
var options = {
size: {
width: 100,
height: 999
},
metadata: ['exif', 'ocr', 'psd'],
format: 'jpg'
};
previews.generate(url, options);
The request is received by the developer's app. The following results are shown in the site dashboard of the developer's app:
{
"preview": {
"resized": true,
"size": {
"height": "178",
"width": "100"
},
"page": 1,
"url": "https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/[removed for privacy]/ec210ecf45d9d190539a241462c621f75adf2d4f835fb394a8d738d09fd412d6/HQB8wtI_100x999_1.jpg",
"requested_size": "100x999",
"original_size": {
"height": "1024",
"width": "576"
}
},
"id": "25841aca-e176-4cf7-ac1d-b01ce604a765",
"user_data": null,
"status": "success",
"url": "https://api.filepreviews.io/v2/previews/25841aca-e176-4cf7-ac1d-b01ce604a765/",
"thumbnails": [
{
"resized": true,
"size": {
"height": "178",
"width": "100"
},
"page": 1,
"url": "https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/[removed for privacy]/ec210ecf45d9d190539a241462c621f75adf2d4f835fb394a8d738d09fd412d6/HQB8wtI_100x999_1.jpg",
"requested_size": "100x999",
"original_size": {
"height": "1024",
"width": "576"
}
}
],
"original_file": {
"metadata": {
"ocr": null,
"psd": null,
"exif": null
},
"size": 82022,
"extension": "jpg",
"total_pages": 1,
"encoding": "binary",
"name": "HQB8wtI",
"mimetype": "image/jpeg",
"type": "image"
}
}
My question is: How do I get the url for the file preview into my site? Each file is referenced dynamically and there will be many on a page for most areas of my site. There seems to be no consistency in how FilePreviews is generating the folder on AWS S3, so I can't even use a clever PHP fix to solve it.
Anyone care to assist and show me the ways of this programming world?
I don't have experience with FilePreviews, but this is how I expect it should work.
First, you add an image tag in your HTML, at the spot where you want the thumbnail to appear. Give it an id, for example "thumb":
<img id="thumb"/>
Then, modify the last line of your script as follows:
previews.generate(url, options, onPreviewReceived);
The third parameter is a callback function we must define elsewhere in the script. I have called it onPreviewReceived, but you can choose your own name. It is called when the result is received. You can define the callback function as follows:
function onPreviewReceived(err, result) {
if (!err) {
var thumbnailUrl = result.thumbnails[0].url; // but see assumption
document.getElementById("thumb").setAttribute("src", thumbnailUrl);
}
}
This function assigns the url, obtained from the result, to the src attribute of the img tag.
Assumption: I expect the 'result' to be as described in your question. However, the client library documentation indicates that you will get a different result and that you should have a thumbnailUrl assignment like this:
var thumbnailUrl = result.previewUrl;
So please try that as well.