html-metadata returns all fields as undefined for specific url

[satyanath]

Hi,

I have been using html-metadata and thanks for such a wonderful software. I noticed that when used on the following url https://www.cnet.com/special-reports/vr101/ - it gives all fields as undefined.

Can you please look into the issue.

My code is

var scrape = require('html-metadata'); var url = process.argv[2];

scrape(url).then(function(metadata){ console.log("****"); console.log(metadata); });

and the output I get for this program is

parse() is deprecated, use toJson()

---

{ openGraph: { site_name: undefined, title: undefined, description: undefined, url: undefined, image: { url: undefined, type: 'image/jpeg', width: '630', height: '315' }, app_id: undefined, type: 'article' }, twitter: { card: 'summary_large_image', creator: undefined, site: undefined } }

[mvolz]

Thanks for reporting!

The underlying issue with that url is that it looks like they're using a templating language to create their html but the values for some reason the content tag isn't being added:

<!-- OpenGraph sharing tags -->
    <meta property="og:site_name"     ng-attr-content="{{share.siteName}}" />
    <meta property="og:title"         ng-attr-content="{{share.title}}" />
    <meta property="og:description"   ng-attr-content="{{share.description}}" />

But obviously we shouldn't be returning undefined! :)

[satyanath]

Yes. So what would be returning and what time it may take to fix this?.

Regards,

S.Satyanath

On 06-02-2017 15:29, M. Volz wrote:

Thanks for reporting!

The underlying issue with that url is that it looks like they're using a templating language to create their html but the values for some reason aren't getting replaced and it's putting the literal template tags in instead:

| <meta property="og:site_name" ng-attr-content="{{share.siteName}}" /> <meta property="og:title" ng-attr-content="{{share.title}}" /> <meta property="og:description" ng-attr-content="{{share.description}}" /> |

But obviously we shouldn't be returning undefined! :)

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[mvolz]

Hi,

I will fix it returning undefined, and instead you will get cleaner, but not very rich metadata. It looks like they have a programming error on their end :/ I'll let you know when the update is published.

[satyanath]

Thanks a lot for the quick response.

Regards,

S.Satyanath

On 06-02-2017 15:43, M. Volz wrote:

Hi,

I will fix it returning undefined, and instead you will get cleaner, but not very rich metadata. It looks like they have a programming error on their end :/ I'll let you know when the update is published.

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[mvolz]

I think this has actually been resolved for a while, so closing :).