Social Media handles scraper

A node.js module to extract social media handles out of websites

Features

A single configurable function that take several websites to extract and returns an array of social media handles.

Installation

using npm:

$ npm i social-media-scraper

using yarn:

$ yarn add social-media-scraper

Examples

const getHandles = require('social-media-scraper').default
const websites = ['https://your-web-site-1.com', 'https://your-web-site-2.com']
getHandles(website)
.then(handles => handles.map(handle => console.log(handle))
.catch(error => console.error(error))

API

Handles extractor

getHandles(urls: Array<string> | string) => Array<{ [website]: { [social_network]: Array<string> }>

Returns an array of object containing the website's url containing and object in which the keys are the social network identifiers with the handles extracted attached.

[
  {
    "https://your-web-site.com/": {
       "facebook": ["YourHandle"],
       "twitter": ["YourHandle"],
       "linkedin": ["YourHandle"],
       "pinterest": [],
       "tumblr": [],
       "soundcloud": [],
       "instagram": [],
       "youtube": ["YourHandle"],
       "snapchat": []
    }
  }
]

Config

Simply edit the socialMediaScraper.CONFIG array, supported social network are stored in the socialMediaScraper.SUPPORTED_NETWORKS set.

socialMediaScraper.CONFIG = ['twitter', 'facebook', 'my-space']