Overview

There’s a fair number of Open Graph metadata libraries for Python, but all of the currently active ones use an HTML parser like BeautifulSoup to extract the metadata. There’s nothing wrong with that, and it comes with some advantages but I wanted one that parses the webpage as RDFa, and so here we are.

This library extracts the Open Graph metadata and makes it available via the object’s properties. Most of the other libraries I’ve encountered that do this take a website’s URI and download the data there but this library takes the text of the website as the data instead. This was done because I’ve found that various websites like to hide their OGM data behind user agents so this allows you to get the data however you need to. It is also much easier to test.

See the TODO.rst file for information about features that I will be adding to this library.

Basic Usage

You can get the website source any way you like but in these examples I will be using Requests.

First initialize the object with the data from Requests:

import requests
from pyzu import OGP

r = requests.get('http://ogp.me/')
ogp_me = OGP(r.text)

After this we can check the validity of the data (essentially does it contain the four required attributes as specified by the OGP spec [title, type, image, and url]:

>>> ogp_me.is_valid
True

and finally we can look at the properties individually or see all the properties that we were able to extract from the page:

>>> ogp_me.title
'Open Graph protocol'
>>> ogp_me.properties
['description', 'url', 'image:height', 'image:alt', 'type', 'image', 'image:width', 'title', 'image:type']