A Ruby interface to the Open Calais Web Service
- Accepts documents in text/plain, text/xml and text/html format.
- Basic access to the Open Calais API's Enlighten action.
- Output is RDF representation of input document.
- Single function ability to extract names, entities and geographies from given text.
This is a very basic wrapper to the Open Calais API. It uses the POST endpoint and currently supports the Enlighten action. Here's a simple call:
Calais.enlighten(
:content => "The government of the United Kingdom has given corporations like fast food chain McDonald's the right to award high school qualifications to employees who complete a company training program."
:content_type => :text,
:license_id => 'your license id'
)
This is the easiest way to get the RDF-formated response from the OpenCalais service.
If you want to do something more fun like getting all sorts of fun information about a document, you can try this:
Calais.process_document(
:content => "The government of the United Kingdom has given corporations like fast food chain McDonald's the right to award high school qualifications to employees who complete a company training program.",
:content_type => :text,
:license_id => 'your license id'
)
This will return an object containing information extracted from the RDF response.
You can install the Calais gem via Rubygems (gem install calais) or by building from source.
- Paul Legato: Help all around with the new response processor and implementation of the 3.1 API.