PaulAnderie / extract-social-media

Extract social media links and account names from websites.

Extract Social Media

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

• 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

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

• 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

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the fluquid/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.