extract-social-media 0.4.0
Extract social media links from websites
License: MIT
Keywords: extract-social-media

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Extract Social Media
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Extract social media links from websites.

Many websites reference their facebook, twitter, linkedin, youtube accounts
and these can be invaluable to gather 360 degree information about a company.

This library allows to extract links or handles for the most commonly used
international social media networks.

* Free software: MIT license
* Python versions: 2.7, 3.4+

Features
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* Extract social media links/handles from html content
* Attempts to extract links/handles also from widgets, scripts, etc.
* Supports most widely used social networks

  * facebook
  * linkedin
  * twitter
  * youtube
  * github
  * google plus
  * pinterest
  * instagram
  * snapchat
  * flipboard
  * flickr
  * weibo
  * periscope
  * telegram
  * soundcloud
  * feedburner
  * vimeo
  * slideshare
  * vkontakte
  * xing

Quickstart
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.. code:: python

   import requests
   from html_to_etree import parse_html_bytes
   res = requests.get('https://techcrunch.com/contact/')
   tree = parse_html_bytes(res.content, res.headers.get('content-type'))

   set(find_links_tree(tree))

   {'http://pinterest.com/techcrunch/',
    'http://www.youtube.com/user/techcrunch',
    'http://www.linkedin.com/company/techcrunch',
    'https://www.facebook.com/techcrunch',
    'https://flipboard.com/@techcrunch',
    'http://instagram.com/techcrunch',
    'https://plus.google.com/+TechCrunch',
    'https://instagram.com/techcrunch',
    'https://twitter.com/techcrunch'}

Caveats
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* currently finds all social media links on a page

  * need to look into finding most relevant links based on link location,
    link context, company name, etc.

Credits
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This package was created with Cookiecutter_ and the `fluquid/cookiecutter-pypackage`_ project template.

.. _Cookiecutter: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter
.. _`fluquid/cookiecutter-pypackage`: https://github.com/fluquid/cookiecutter-pypackage

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History
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0.4.0 (2017-08-18)
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* naive blacklisting for photos, videos, search, tweets, etc.

0.3.0 (2017-08-18)
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* fixed exception when "href" is empty or non-string

0.2.0 (2017-06-08)
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* better test coverage
* accepting data-href

0.1.0 (unreleased)
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* First release on PyPI.