metadata-parser

A web backend to scrape metadata.

Running Metadata Parser locally

Metadata Parser is a Node Js application.

git clone https://github.com/dpk07/metadata-parser.git
cd metadata-parser
npm install
npm start

Working with Metadata Parser in your IDE

Prerequisites

The following items should be installed in your system:

• Node 10 or newer.
• git command line tool (https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git)

Steps:

1. On the command line

   git clone https://github.com/dpk07/metadata-parser.git
   

2. Inside VS Code

   File -> Open Folder -> metadata-parser
   

   Run the application by running npm start in the console.

Run Unit Tests:

1. On the command line

   npm run test
   

Code coverage:

1. On the command line

   npm run coverage
   

Looking for something in particular?

Important files	Link
The App.js File	app
Dependencies	package.json
Unit Tests	Tests
Supported Tags	tags.js

Try it out

Postman

Steps:

1. Open Postman

2. Do a post request to

   http://localhost:3000/scrape
   

3. Pass a json object in the body with the following structure. For example:

   {url:"https://ogp.me"}

4. Response will have all the scraped tags.

   {
    "title": "Open Graph protocol",
    "type": "website",
    "url": "https://ogp.me/",
    "description": "The Open Graph protocol    enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.",
    "image": {
        "type": "image/png",
        "width": "300",
        "height": "300",
        "alt": "The Open Graph logo",
        "url": "https://ogp.me/logo.png"
      }
    }