goldfinger

Goldfinger, a Webfinger client for Ruby

A Webfinger client for Ruby. Supports application/xrd+xml and application/jrd+json responses. Raises Goldfinger::NotFoundError on failure to fetch the Webfinger or XRD data, or Goldfinger::SSLError if something is wrong with the HTTPS connection it uses.

Installation

gem install goldfinger

Usage

data = Goldfinger.finger('acct:gargron@quitter.no')

data.link('http://schemas.google.com/g/2010#updates-from').href
# => "https://quitter.no/api/statuses/user_timeline/7477.atom"

data.aliases
# => ["https://quitter.no/user/7477", "https://quitter.no/gargron"]

data.subject
# => "acct:gargron@quitter.no"

RFC support

The official Webfinger RFC is 7033.