Memescraper

Scrape meme information from urls.

Installation

npm install --save memescraper

Usage

const memescraper = require('memescraper')
 
// Lookup info
 
memescraper.lookup('http://www.livememe.com/3t1je69', function (err, res) {
  if (err) throw err
 
  console.log(res.memeId) // most-interesting-man
 
  console.log(res.captions[0]) // I DON’T ALWAYS DRINK BEER
  console.log(res.captions[1]) // BUT WHEN I DO, I PREFER DOS EQUIS
})
 
// Parse URL
 
const info = memescraper.parse('http://www.livememe.com/3t1je69')
 
console.log(info.provider) // livememe
console.log(info.id) // 3t1je69

CLI

$ memescraper "http://www.livememe.com/3t1je69"
{
  "memeId": "most-interesting-man",
  "captions": [
    "I DON’T ALWAYS DRINK BEER",
    "BUT WHEN I DO, I PREFER DOS EQUIS"
  ]
}

API

memescraper.parse(url) -> { provider, id }

Parse a url into the corresponding provider and id.

memescraper.lookup(url, cb) -> cb(err, { memeId, captions })

Lookup the type of meme and captions for the given url.

memescraper.lookup(info, cb) -> cb(err, { memeId, captions })

Lookup the type of meme and captions for the given provider and id. info should be in the same format as returned by .parse(url).