OpenGraph is a module of python for parsing the Open Graph Protocol, you can read more about the specification at http://ogp.me/

Installation

$ pip install opengraph

Features

• Use it as a python dict
• Input and parsing from a specific url
• Input and parsung from html previous extracted
• HTML output
• JSON output

Usage

From an URL

>>> import opengraph
>>> video = opengraph.OpenGraph(url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3ixBmDzylQ")
>>> video.is_valid()
True
>>> for x,y in video.items():
...     print "%-15s => %s" % (x, y)
...
site_name       => YouTube
description     => Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney perform George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the...
title           => While My Guitar Gently Weeps
url             => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3ixBmDzylQ
image           => http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/q3ixBmDzylQ/default.jpg
video:type      => application/x-shockwave-flash
video:height    => 224
video           => http://www.youtube.com/v/q3ixBmDzylQ?version=3&autohide=1
video:width     => 398
type            => video

From HTML

>>> HTML = """
... <html xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#">
... <head>
... <title>The Rock (1996)</title>
... <meta property="og:title" content="The Rock" />
... <meta property="og:type" content="movie" />
... <meta property="og:url" content="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/" />
... <meta property="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/rock.jpg" />
... </head>
... </html>
... """
>>> movie = opengraph.OpenGraph() # or you can instantiate as follows: opengraph.OpenGraph(html=HTML)
>>> movie.parser(HTML)
>>> video.is_valid()
True

Generate JSON or HTML

>>> ogp = opengraph.OpenGraph("http://ogp.me/")
>>> print ogp.to_json()
{"image:type": "image/png", "title": "Open Graph protocol", "url": "http://ogp.me/", "image": "http://ogp.me/logo.png", "scrape": false, "_url": "http://ogp.me/", "image:height": "300", "type": "website", "image:width": "300", "description": "The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph."}
>>> print ogp.to_html()

<meta property="og:image:type" content="image/png" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Open Graph protocol" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://ogp.me/" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://ogp.me/logo.png" />
<meta property="og:scrape" content="False" />
<meta property="og:_url" content="http://ogp.me/" />
<meta property="og:image:height" content="300" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:image:width" content="300" />
<meta property="og:description" content="The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph." />