EurActory Embed Tool

This API sits between the EurActory and a client website that would like to embed EurActory cards. It exists because:

Performance: This API bundles a caching proxy and the javascript library leverages local storage.
Search term normalization: The EurActory can be a bit picky about search terms. The search function normalizes them first.
Result normalization: Results are normalized into a universal data format regardless of irregular markup on the EurActory side.

Warning: This API uses screen scraping to extract data from the EurActory. If the EurActory HTML structure changes dramatically, the API may need tweeking to continue functioning.

Use

Note: jQuery v1.11 must be loaded before the script.

To load the script itself:

<script src='//assets.euractiv.com/euractory/euractory-min.js'></script>

The script creates creates a global object at window.EA.euractory.

The embeds are marked up for bootstrap display; to include more base styling include the stylesheet:

<link href='//assets.euractiv.com/euractory/euractory-min.css' rel='stylesheet'>

Documentation and Examples

Embed a profile

Use the function window.EA.euractory.profile. It accepts two parameters:

search_term: (string) the search term for locating the person, normally the person's name
selector: (string) css selector for the element to append the profile card into. The contents of the first matched element will be removed and replaced with the EurActory profile. If there are no results, the first matched element will be removed.

To localize the script, use the function window.EA.euractory.localize. It accepts two parameters, the first being the string to localize and the second the localized value. Alternately, it will accept an object where the properties are the string to localize and the values are the localized value.

<div id='euractory-person-example'>Loading...</div>
<script type='text/javascript'>(function (global) {
    global.EA.euractory.localize({
        'Latest tweets': '<i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"></i> Latest Tweets',
        'Expert at:': '<i class=\"fa fa-bookmark-o\"></i> Expertise',
        'Latest news': '<i class=\"fa fa-newspaper-o\"></i> In the news',
    });    
    global.EA.euractory.profile('maroš-šefčovič', '#euractory-person-example');    
}(window));</script>

Embed a ranking

Use the function window.EA.euractory.ranking. It accepts two parameters:

search_term: the search term for locating the ranking, normally the policy topic
append_to: the CSS selector to append the search results to. Important: The container will have any existing HTML removed and replaced with the matching person; if there is no match the container will be removed.
num_results: the number of results to show, defaults to 4. Maximum limited by EurActory search pagination, which was 12 at the time of writing.

<div id='euractory-ranking-example'>Loading...</div>
<script type='text/javascript'>(function (global) {
    global.EA.euractory.ranking('energy union', '#euractory-ranking-example', 5);
 }(window));</script>

JSON Endpoint: search

Internal use only! The endpoint should not be called directly and is subject to change without notice; this section exists for documentation puposes only.

The profile JSON endpoint is: //assets.euractiv.com/euractory/profile.php. It accepts two query parameters:

uri: (string) [required] the relative uri to the profile, as returned by the search API endpoint.
mini: (bool) [optional] return a minified version of the profile.

$ wget -q0 https://assets.euractiv.com/euractory/profile.php?uri=%2Fangela-merkel;
{
    "img": null
}
$ wget -q0 https://assets.euractiv.com/euractory/profile.php?uri=%2Fangela-merkel&mini=1;
{
    "img": null
}

<pre>
$ wget -q0 https://assets.euractiv.com/euractory/profile.php?uri=%2Fangela-merkel;
{
    &quot;img&quot;: null
}
$ wget -q0 https://assets.euractiv.com/euractory/profile.php?uri=%2Fangela-merkel&mini=1;
{
    &quot;img&quot;: null
}</pre>

JSON Endpoint: profile

Internal use only! The endpoint should not be called directly and is subject to change without notice; this section exists for documentation puposes only.

The search JSON endpoint is: https://assets.euractiv.com/euractory/search.php. It accepts two query parameters:

term: (string) [required] the search term
count: (integer) [optional default 1] the number of terms to return, limited to the pagination value of the EurActory (12 at time of writing).

$ wget -q0 https://assets.euractiv.com/euractory/search.php?term=energy&count=3;

Error [E_WARNING]: htmlentities(): charset `ASCII' not supported, assuming utf-8 (plugins/euractory/functions.php

<pre>$ wget -q0 https://assets.euractiv.com/euractory/search.php?term=energy&count=3;

<b>Error [E_WARNING]:</b> htmlentities(): charset `ASCII' not supported, assuming utf-8 (plugins/euractory/functions.php</pre>

System Status

Cache

The database that powers this API is currently using 39.2 MB.

Expired items were last cleaned from the cache 1 days ago. The database was last vacuumed 1 days ago.

To ensure that the database is regularly cleaned, make sure the following line is in your cron tab (adjusting the frequency to your needs):

/15 * * * wget -q -O - https://assets.euractiv.com/euractory/clean-cache.php

Driver: sqlite | Clean cache now.

Warning! It looks like the database isn't being cleaned regularly. Are you sure cron is configured?

Configuration

Configuration is located in the file /config/euractory.php. If you do not have the ability to modify this file, contact your administrator to have options changed. The configuration file should contain an array with the name $config containing the following offsets:

Name	Type	Description	Current Setting
`search_url`	string	The base URL for the search page	http://euractory.eucommunity.eu/search?keys=
`search_xpath`	string	The XPath selector for profile page links in the search results	//a[contains(@class, "title")]
`search_ranking_xpath`	string	The XPath selector to determine if a search result is a ranking	//body[contains(@class,"page-topic")]
`profile_url`	string	The base URL for a profile page	http://euractory.eucommunity.eu
`profile_xpath`	string	The XPath selector for the profile container element	//div[contains(@class, "classified_in")]
`profile_img_xpath`	string	The XPath selector for the profile image	//*[contains(@class, "expertImage")]//a/img
`profile_title_xpath`	string	The XPath selector for the job title	//h1
`profile_positions_xpath`	string	The XPath selector for profile job positions	//*[contains(@class, "expertPosition")]//div//h4
`profile_tabs_xpath`	string	THe XPath selector for the "more details" tabs	//*[contains(@class, "quick-accordion")]//h3
`callmap_driver`	string	The callmap driver to use, either "sqlite", "fsstore" or "noop"	noop
`callmap_labels`	array	Labels for the callmap, where the key is the regular expression to match and the value is the label to use	Login to view this setting
`callmap_visualize_default`	array	Nodes to visualize by default	Login to view this setting
`callmap_probability`	integer	Probability that a given hit will log. Important for high traffic sites. Set higher for lower probability.	1000
`cal_ttl`	integer	The time, in seconds, to cache items before revalidating	86400
`cal_driver`	string	The cache driver to use, either "fs" or "sqlite" or "noop"	sqlite
`http_allowed_domains`	array	Allowed domains for fetching assets or generating URLs	Login to view this setting
`http_allowed_urls`	array	Specified URLs or regular expressions of specified URLs match for fetching assets or generating URLs	Login to view this setting
`http_connect_timeout`	integer	The amount of time, in seconds, that cURL should wait before returning an error status. 15 is a good value for most cases.	15