Overview

link_preview is now a fashionable way of sharing links in social media. The contents of what the preview is made up are:-

1. og.title:-
    Title of the preview.
    In HTML: <meta property="og.title" content="XYZ">
    Value: XYZ

2. og.description:-
    Description of the preview.
    In HTML: <meta property="og.description" content="XYZ">
    Value: XYZ

3. og.image:-
    Image of the preview.
    In HTML: <meta property="og.image" content="XYZ">
    Value: XYZ

4. title:-
    if 'og:title' is not found, this becomes the Title.
    In HTML: <title>XYZ</title>
    Value: XYZ

5. meta description:-
    if 'og:description' is not found, this becomes the Description.
    In HTML: <meta name="description" content="XYZ">
    Value: XYZ

6. favicon:-
    if 'og:image' is not found, this becomes the Image.
    In HTML: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="XYZ" type="image/x-icon">
    Value: XYZ

7. website:-
    Host website for the link.

Reference:- richpreview (from where I learned)

This module fetches all these data and combines those into a dictionary.

A sample WhatsApp link_preview:-

#######################################
#   I    #    Title                   #
#   M    #    Description             #
#   A    #                            #
#   G    #    website                 #
#   E    #                            #
#######################################

Usage:-

from link_preview import link_preview
dict_elem = link_preview.generate_dict(url) # this is a dict()

# Access values
title = dict_elem['title']
description = dict_elem['description']
image = dict_elem['image']
website = dict_elem['website']

Insatallation

To install from pip, use the following command

pip install link_preview

to update, use

pip install -U link_preview

License

MIT