@spykesocial/react-native-opengraph-scrapper

1.1.2 • Public • Published

React-Native-OpenGraph-Scrapper

A simple pure javascript react-native module for scraping OpenGraph metadata and Twitter Card info off a site.

Installation

  yarn add @spykesocial/react-native-opengraph-scrapper

Usage

Callback Example:

const getOpenGraphData = require('@spykesocial/react-native-opengraph-scrapper');
const options = { url: 'http://ogp.me/' };
getOpenGraphData(options, (error, results, response) => {
    console.log('error:', error); // This is returns true or false. True if there was a error. The error it self is inside the results object.
    console.log('results:', results); // This contains all of the Open Graph results
    console.log('response:', response); // This contains the HTML of page
  });

Promise Example:

const getOpenGraphData = require('@spykesocial/react-native-opengraph-scrapper');
const options = { url: 'http://ogp.me/' };
getOpenGraphData(options)
  .then((data) => {
    const { error, result, response } = data;
    console.log('error:', error);  // This is returns true or false. True if there was a error. The error it self is inside the results object.
    console.log('result:', result); // This contains all of the Open Graph results
    console.log('response:', response); // This contains the HTML of page
  })

Results 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 example will return something like...

{
  ogTitle: 'Open Graph protocol',
  ogType: 'website',
  ogUrl: 'http://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'
  },
  requestUrl: 'http://ogp.me/',
  success: true
}

Options

Name Info Default Value Required
url URL of the site. x
timeout Timeout of the request 2000 ms
html You can pass in an HTML string to run ogs on it. (use without options.url)
blacklist Pass in an array of sites you don't want ogs to run on. []
onlyGetOpenGraphInfo Only fetch open graph info and don't fall back on anything else. false
ogImageFallback Fetch other images if no open graph ones are found. true
customMetaTags Here you can define custom meta tags you want to scrape. []
allMedia By default, OGS will only send back the first image/video it finds false
retry Number of times ogs will retry the request. 2
headers An object containing request headers. Useful for setting the user-agent {}
peekSize Sets the peekSize for the request 1024
urlValidatorSettings Sets the options used by validator.js for testing the URL Here

thanks https://github.com/chrisuehlinger/openGraphScraperLite

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npm i @spykesocial/react-native-opengraph-scrapper

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