link_Preview

A python module that gathers elements required for linkPreview.

Overview

link_preview is now a fashionable way of sharing links in social media. The contents of what the preview is made up are:-

    1. og.title:-
        Title of the preview. 
        In HTML: <meta property="og.title" content="XYZ">
        Value: XYZ
        
    2. og.description:-
        Description of the preview.
        In HTML: <meta property="og.description" content="XYZ">
        Value: XYZ
        
    3. og.image:-
        Image of the preview.
        In HTML: <meta property="og.image" content="XYZ">
        Value: XYZ
        
    4. title:-
        if 'og:title' is not found, this becomes the Title.
       	In HTML: <title>XYZ</title>
        Value: XYZ
        
    5. meta description:-
        if 'og:description' is not found, this becomes the Description.
        In HTML: <meta name="description" content="XYZ">
        Value: XYZ
        
    6. favicon:-
        if 'og:image' is not found, this becomes the Image.
        In HTML: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="XYZ" type="image/x-icon">
        Value: XYZ
        
    7. website:-
        Host website for the link.

Reference:- richpreview (from where I learned)

This module fetches all these data and combines those into a dictionary.

A sample WhatsApp link_preview:-

    #######################################
    #   I    #    Title                   #
    #   M    #    Description             #
    #   A    #                            #
    #   G    #    website                 #
    #   E    #                            #
    #######################################

Usage:-

    from link_preview import link_preview
    dict_elem = link_preview.generate_dict(url) # this is a dict()
    
	# Access values
    title = dict_elem['title']
    description = dict_elem['description']
    image = dict_elem['image']
    website = dict_elem['website']

Insatallation

To install from pip, use the following command

	pip install link_preview

to update, use

	pip install -U link_preview

License

MIT