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Extract Every Open Graph and Social Media Meta Tag from Web Pages in Python
A Python script that fetches a webpage and extracts all Open Graph, Twitter Card, Facebook, and Article meta tags using the standard library HTML parser.
from html.parser import HTMLParser
import re
from urllib.request import urlopen
from urllib.parse import urlparse
class MetaExtractor(HTMLParser):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.meta_tags = []
def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
if tag == 'meta':
attrs_…Extract Schema.org Structured Data from Any Website in Python
A Python tool that fetches a webpage and extracts all JSON-LD structured data (Schema.org) embedded in <script> tags with type="application/ld+json".
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import json
def extract_schema_org(url):
"""Extract structured data (Schema.org) from a website."""
try:
response = requests.get(url, timeout=10)
response.raise_for_status()
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
return {"err…How to Implement ETag Optimistic Concurrency in Python
Build a lightweight in-memory resource store that uses MD5 hash ETags to prevent lost updates via optimistic concurrency control.
import hashlib
import json
class ResourceStore:
def __init__(self):
self.data = {}
self.etags = {}
def get(self, resource_id):
if resource_id not in self.data:
return None, None
return self.data[resource_id], self.etags[resource_id]
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