opengraph VS trafilatura

og:*: specified by the Open Graph Protocol for social media links rendering that determine their title, description, and images when you share them on social media or chat software such as Twitter(X), Discord, etc.

OpenGraph probably.

To explore more Open Graph properties, visit this website: Open Graph Protocol.

Since Netlify introduced Edge Functions we've had an ideal way to add a tiny bit of logic into our link shortener which will return a page template of our own to anything looking to unfurl the URL to display its opengraph image.

Recoil Gunworks doesn't have an Open Graph image tag defined in their product pages, so Reddit chooses something at random to use for a preview thumbnail. Neither OP nor the mods can do anything about it.

The idea behind the Semantic Web is, if anything, the exact opposite. Yes, it's still about meaning, in the end. But in this case, it's about the authors of content (mostly webpage developers) intentionally making their content more machine-discoverable, providing links and markup and metadata that computers can read without having to do finicky and error-prone extraction. Most major sites use some features of this! As an example, if you paste this page's URL into Discord, you'll get a fancy popup box with a little snippet of the text and maybe an icon, and this is through a Facebook-developed Semantic Web extension called OpenGraph.

The feature list answers that question pretty well: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura#features

Basically: you could implement all of this on top of BeautifulSoup - polite crawling policies, sitemap and feed parsing, URL de-duplication, parallel processing, download queues, heuristics for extracting just the main article content, metadata extraction, language detection... but it would require writing an enormous amount of extra code.

The WebScraper tool uses Trafilatura [1] to scrape and parse HTML—nothing too fancy. "Scraping" a React site would require a totally different approach, probably something more akin to Adept's ACT-1 [2].

I run a local chat app built with Griptape and I use it to give me summaries of web pages or answer specific questions all the time :)

1. https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/

I've been playing with Trafilatura lately, and it's very good. There are a few very thorough comparisons to other projects and it really shines. It doesn't do anything headless from what I can tell, but it doesn't have to do the scraping itself. Maybe an option could be to use Playwright to scrape, then Trafilatura to parse. Food for thought.

Cool! If you care to explain me further... :) ... I tried parsing a page using: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura, json stringify it and passing it to https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/embeddings/create. How do I use the response as an input later? <3

I want to test how easy it is to install a package plus special extra dependencies to run a certain script in that package: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura