Article Metadata Extractor

The Article Metadata Extractor is a JavaScript library that allows you to extract essential metadata from web pages containing articles. It is designed to be used in Node.js 18+.

How It Works

The library uses the Cheerio library to parse and traverse HTML content. It fetches the HTML content of a given URL and extracts the following information from the webpage:

Title: The title of the article.
Image: The illustrative image associated with the article.
Author: The name of the article's author.
Tags: A list of keywords or tags associated with the article.
Publication Date: The date when the article was published.
Read Time: An estimated reading time for the article in minutes.
Description: A short excerpt or description of the article.

With NPX

npx article-metadata-extractor <ARTICLE-URL>

Using in Project

Install dependency:

npm install article-metadata-extractor

Import the getArticleMetaData function into your project and use it:

const url = 'https://example.com/article';

getArticleMetaData(url)
  .then(metadata => {
    console.log(metadata);
    // Use the extracted metadata as needed
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.error('Error:', error.message);
  });

Output

/**
 * Represents the extracted metadata from an article's webpage.
 */
interface ArticleMetadata {
  /**
   * The title of the article.
   */
  title: string;

  /**
   * The URL of the illustrative image associated with the article.
   */
  image: string;

  /**
   * The name of the article's author.
   */
  author: string;

  /**
   * An array of keywords or tags associated with the article.
   */
  tags: string[];

  /**
   * The date when the article was published in ISO 8601 format.
   */
  publicationDate: string | null;

  /**
   * An estimated reading time for the article in minutes based on an average reading speed.
   */
  readTime: number;

  /**
   * A short excerpt or description of the article.
   */
  description: string;
}