html-meta-tags

Generate HTML meta tags from JSON data.

Install

npm install html-meta-tags -g

Usage

CLI

You can either pipe data from the standard input or specify a file path for the program.

$ html-meta-tags
 
Usage: html-meta-tags <file> [options]
 
Example:
  cat data.json | html-meta-tags
 
Options:
  -v --version          Display current program version
  -h --help             Display help and usage details
     --no-charset       Do not specify UTF-8 as document charset
     --no-og            Do not generate Open Graph meta tags
     --no-twitter       Do not generate Twitter meta tags
 
$ echo '
{
  "title": "My Website",
  "url": "https://mywebsite.com",
  "keywords": ["blockchain", "infosec", "crypto"],
  "description": "This is my personal website"
}' | html-meta-tags
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="title" content="My Website">
<meta name="url" content="https://mywebsite.com">
<meta name="keywords" content="blockchain, infosec, crypto">
<meta name="description" content="This is my personal website">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="This is my personal website">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="My Website">
<meta property="og:description" content="This is my personal website">
<meta property="og:title" content="My Website">

Node.js

var htmlMetaTags = require('html-meta-tags')
var data = require('./data.json')
 
console.log(htmlMetaTags(data))

API

htmlMetaTags(data, [options])

Returns an HTML string containing a representation of all meta tags from data.

data

Type: Object

Meta tags in object notation format.

• You can use arrays for comma-separated such as keywords or viewport.
• If a specific value for a prefixed key is specified it will take precedence over the default.
• Prefixed keys should have their own entry, og:title for example, should be represented as:

{
  og: {
    title: 'value'
  }
}

options

Type: Object

shouldIgnoreCharset

Type: boolean
Default: false

Whether or not it should render UTF-8 charset meta tag.

shouldIgnoreTwitter

Type: boolean
Default: false

Whether or not it should render Twitter specific meta tags.

shouldIgnoreOpenGraph

Type: boolean
Default: false

Whether or not it should render Open Graph specific meta tags.

License

MIT © Rafael Rinaldi

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