OpenGraphReader

A library to fetch and parse OpenGraph properties from an URL or a given string.

Features

Strives to be robust and complete.
Intuitive method based API.
Supports custom prefixes.
Validates properties according to their type.

Anti-features

Can ignore the complete object if anything is invalid.
Does not fall back to guess the basic attributes from regular tags.
Only supports the latest OpenGraph protocol as defined at http://ogp.me out of the box.
Objects and their properties are defined in code, not by parsing the response at the namespace identifier.

Ruby 2.0 and later are supported.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'open_graph_reader'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install open_graph_reader

Install the following gems the same way for a higher success rate at fetching websites:

Usage

require 'open_graph_reader'

# Returns nil if anything on the object is invalid
object = OpenGraphReader.fetch("http://examples.opengraphprotocol.us/article.html")

# Raises if anything on the object is invalid
object = OpenGraphReader.fetch!("http://examples.opengraphprotocol.us/article.html")

# Read from string
object = OpenGraphReader.parse(html)
object = OpenGraphReader.parse!(html)

# Access by full property name
object.og.title #=> "5 Held in Plot to Bug Office"

# Optional properties can return nil
object.og.description #=> nil

# Supports properties that are objects themselves
object.og.image.to_s    #=> "http://examples.opengraphprotocol.us/media/images/50.png"
object.og.image.content #=> "http://examples.opengraphprotocol.us/media/images/50.png"
object.og.image.url     #=> "https://examples.opengraphprotocol.us/media/images/50.png"
object.og.image.width   #=> 50

# Supports arrays
object.og.images.first == object.og.image #=> true
object.article.tags #=> ["Watergate"]

# Custom namespace
class MyNamespace
  include OpenGraphReader::Object

  namespace :my, :namespace # my:namespace
  string :name, required: true # my:namespace:name
  url :url, default: "http://example.org/my_namespace"
  integer :pages, collection: true
  # See the shipped definitions for more examples
end

Documentation

Contributing

Fork it ( https://github.com/jhass/open_graph_reader/fork )
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create a new Pull Request