OpenGraph is a module of python for parsing the Open Graph Protocol, you can read more about the specification at http://ogp.me/

Installation

.. code-block:: console

$ pip install opengraph

Features

• Use it as a python dict
• Input and parsing from a specific url
• Input and parsung from html previous extracted
• HTML output
• JSON output

Usage

From an URL

.. code-block:: pycon

import opengraph video = opengraph.OpenGraph(url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3ixBmDzylQ") video.is_valid() True for x,y in video.items(): ... print "%-15s => %s" % (x, y) ... site_name => YouTube description => Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney perform George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the... title => While My Guitar Gently Weeps url => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3ixBmDzylQ image => http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/q3ixBmDzylQ/default.jpg video:type => application/x-shockwave-flash video:height => 224 video => http://www.youtube.com/v/q3ixBmDzylQ?version=3&autohide=1 video:width => 398 type => video

From HTML

.. code-block:: pycon

HTML = """ ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... """ movie = opengraph.OpenGraph() # or you can instantiate as follows: opengraph.OpenGraph(html=HTML) movie.parser(HTML) video.is_valid() True

Generate JSON or HTML

.. code-block:: pycon

ogp = opengraph.OpenGraph("http://ogp.me/") print ogp.to_json() {"image:type": "image/png", "title": "Open Graph protocol", "url": "http://ogp.me/", "image": "http://ogp.me/logo.png", "scrape": false, "_url": "http://ogp.me/", "image:height": "300", "type": "website", "image:width": "300", "description": "The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph."} print ogp.to_html()