@evansolomon/open-graph-scraper

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openGraphScraper

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A simple node module for scraping Open Graph info off a site.

Installation

npm install open-graph-scraper

Usage

var ogs = require('open-graph-scraper');
var options = {'url':'http://ogp.me/'};
ogs(options, function(err, results) {
	console.log("err:",err);
	console.log("results:",results);
});

You can also set a timeout flag like...

var ogs = require('open-graph-scraper');
var options = {'url':'http://ogp.me/','timeout':'2000'};
ogs(options, function(err, results) {
	console.log("err:",err);
	console.log("results:",results);
});

Result JSON

Check the return for a success flag. If success is set to true, then the url input was valid. Otherwise it will be set to false. The above eample will return something like...

{
  data: {
    ogTitle: "Open Graph protocol"
    ogType: "website"
    ogUrl: "http://ogp.me/"
    ogImage: {
      url: "http://ogp.me/logo.png"
      width: 100
      height: 100
      type: 'image/jpeg'
    }
    ogDescription: "The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph."
  }
  success: true
}

Tests

You have to have mocha running. To install it run...

npm install mocha -g

Then you can run the tests by turning on the server and run...

mocha tests/

Make

This will install the all of the dependencies, then run the tests

make test

TODO

-Get more info from url(s) like title tags and more images

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Version

1.0.3

License

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