@devmehq/open-graph-extractor

Open Graph Extractor

A simple tools for scraping Open Graph and Twitter Card info off from html.

API / Cloud Hosted Service

We offer this URL Scrapping & Metadata Service in our Scalable Cloud API Service Offering - You could try it here URL Scrapping & Metadata Service

Self-hosting - installation and usage instructions

Installation

Install the module through YARN:

yarn add @devmehq/open-graph-extractor

Or NPM

npm install @devmehq/open-graph-extractor

Examples

// use your favorite request library, in this example i will use axios to get the html
import axios from "axios";
import { extractOpenGraph } from '@devmehq/open-graph-extractor';
const { data: html } = axios.get('https://ogp.me')
const openGraph = extractOpenGraph(html);

Results JSON

{
  ogTitle: 'Open Graph protocol',
  ogType: 'website',
  ogUrl: 'https://ogp.me/',
  ogDescription: 'The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.',
  ogImage: {
    url: 'http://ogp.me/logo.png',
    width: '300',
    height: '300',
    type: 'image/png'
  }
} 

Configuration options

customMetaTags

Here you can define custom meta tags you want to scrape. Default: [].

allMedia

By default, OGS will only send back the first image/video it finds. Default: false.

onlyGetOpenGraphInfo

Only fetch open graph info and don't fall back on anything else. Default: false.

ogImageFallback

Fetch other images if no open graph ones are found. Default: false.

Testing

yarn test

Contributing

Please feel free to open an issue or create a pull request and fix bugs or add features, All contributions are welcome. Thank you!

LICENSE MIT