Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: opengraph-parse
Version: 0.0.4
Summary: Parses Open Graph meta tags of web pages and returns a handy JSON-like object. Use this to generate preview of web pages like you see on social media
Home-page: https://github.com/ben-jacobson/opengraph_parse
Author: Ben Jacobson
Author-email: 
License: UNKNOWN
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Requires-Python: >=3.6
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
Requires-Dist: bs4
Requires-Dist: requests

# opengraph_parse
Ben Jacobson 2020

Parses Open Graph meta tags of web pages. Use this to generate previews of web pages.

The purpose of this is to make it easy to scrape a pages opengraph meta tags. This is helpful if you ever want to create a preview of a web page like you'd see when you post to social media, or post a link on Slack. 

Uses Python >=3.6.9

# Installation
pip install opengraph_parse

# Usage

from opengraph_parse import parse_page

if __name__== "__main__":
    # parse the page
    parsed_og_tags = parse_page("http://www.facebook.com", ["og:url", "og:image", ])

    # result is a python dict containing the opengraph tags, simply print them out, or use a for loop to iterate over these. 
    for key, value in parsed_og_tags.items():
        print (f"'{key}' : '{value}'")

