meta-og-scrape

meta-og-scrape, (built from OpenGraphJS) builds a JSON object from a web page which follows the Open Graph Protocol. The JavaScript object returned by this library contains important metadata such as the description, image, and title.

Installation

npm install meta-og-scrape

Usage

Promise support

• Its easy, if you are using a version of node with Promises you are ready to go!
• Other versions of node:
  • define global.Promise = require('bluebird');
  • Feel free to substitute Bluebird with your perferred promise library

// Include it
var ogjs = require('meta-og-scrape');
// Pass in a URL
ogjs({ url: 'http://animateme.app' })
  .then(function (data) {
    console.log(data); // some share data parsed from metatags..
  }, function (err) {
    console.log('It seems that we have fumbled with an error', err);
  });

Callbacks

// Include it
var ogjs = require('meta-og-scrape');
// Pass in a URL
ogjs({ url: 'http://animateme.app' }, function (err, data) {
    if (err) {
      console.log('It seems that we have fumbled with an error', err);
      return;
    }
    
    console.log(data); // some share data parsed from metatags..
  });

Expected ouput

Sample

{ 
  title: 'Open Graph protocol',
  type: 'website',
  url: 'http://ogp.me/',
  description: 'The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.',
  image: [{ 
    url: 'http://ogp.me/logo.png',
    type: 'image/png',
    width: '300',
    height: '300' 
  }]
}

Supported properties

Credits and Acknowledgements

• Modified fork by OpenGraphJS
• Inspired by openGraphScraper