Curlest Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
This plugin provides a shortcode (called “curlest”) that fetches and displays the raw content of a given HTTP URL as the shortcode’s output.
Third party service description
This plugin does not make use of any third party services. No data is collected or submitted by this plugin.
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Usage
Install and activate the plugin.
Use the Curlest shortcode inside a WordPress post or page:
[curlest url="" cache="" timeout="" selector=""]
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Valid values for
url
:- e.g.
https://example.com/index.html
- e.g.
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Valid values for
cache
:nocache
: No caching, i.e. always fetch new URL contents fresh during each shortcode request- The following will always respond with cached URL contents if available, and only fetches new URL data asynchronously, if the cached data has expired based on the given interval, where
N
is a number: N s
orN seconds
N m
orN minutes
N h
orN hours
N d
orN days
- The following may respond with cached URL contents, if the cached data has not expired yet based on the given interval. The difference with the above is that, in the above, if the cached data is stale (expired), it will still be responded, but with the below (the added
fresh
option), stale data will never be responded, new data will first be fetched during the shortcode request before it is responded, whereN
is a number: N s fresh
orN seconds fresh
N m fresh
orN minutes fresh
N h fresh
orN hours fresh
N d fresh
orN days fresh
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Valid values for
timeout
:- Any number, e.g.
30
for 30 seconds. This parameter indicates how long to wait for a response when fetching the URL, before responding with an empty string.
- Any number, e.g.
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Valud values for
selector
:- Any CSS selector, for example
div.a div.b.c .d-e
to return the inner HTML, as per a given CSS selector, from the contents of a fetched HTML document. This assumes that the fetched URL contents is valid HTML, otherwise, the shortcode’s output will be blank.
- Any CSS selector, for example
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