beagle

BeagleJS

Release a Beagle dog to scrape a web site for you.

The intention of this library is to get the relevant information of a site like title, image and description.

How it works?

Scraping the meta-data and falling-back in this order:

1. Facebook OpenGraph

og:title
og:image
og:description

1. Metas

meta[name]
meta[image_src]
meta[description]

1. Looking into DOM (needs to be improved)

title tag
img tags
some p or div

How to use it?

npm install beagle

Scraping a WebSite

With an URL

  var beagle = require('beagle');
 
  beagle.scrape("http://fernetjs.com", function(err, bone){
    console.log(bone.title);
  });

With a Response object

  var beagle = require('beagle'),
    request = require('request');
 
  request("http://fernetjs.com", function (error, response, body) {
    if (error) {
      return;
    }
 
    beagle.scrape(response, function(err, bone){
      console.log(bone.preview);
    });
  });

Bone properties

{
  title: [string], //site title
  images: [array:string], //url of images found
  preview: [string] //site brief description (max 250c) 
  favicon: [string] //url of favicon
  
  url: [string], // called url
  origin: [string] //protocol + host + port of url
  body: [string] //response body
  
  uri: {
    protocol: [string],
    host: [string],
    port: [string],
    path: [string]
  }
}

Changelog

0.2.0

• Improved Develop build with GruntJS
• New property favicon and some fixes of Images URLs - Thanks to loneranger

0.1.1

• Initial Release

Contribute

1. Fork this repo
2. run npm install
3. Create the tests for the new functionality or bug case
4. Put your awesome code
5. run grunt test install grunt-cli
6. Please keep code coverage at 100% (check it with coverage.html generated at root folder)
7. All good?, place a pull request

Contributors

• loneranger

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Pablo Novas <pjnovas@gmail.com>
Copyright (c) 2012 Matias Arriola <matias.arriola@gmail.com>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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