Microdata

Microdata is a package for the Go programming language to extract HTML Microdata from HTML5 documents. It depends on the golang.org/x/net/html HTML5-compliant parser.

HTML Microdata is a markup specification often used in combination with the schema collection to make it easier for search engines to identify and understand content on web pages. One of the most common schema is the rating you see when you google for something. Other schemas are persons, places, events, products, etc.

Command Line

The command line utility returns a JSON object containing any items in the given HTML document.

Install:

$ go install github.com/namsral/microdata/cmd/microdata

Run:

$ microdata http://example.com/blogposting
{
  "items": [
    {
      "type": [
        "http://schema.org/BlogPosting"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "comment": [
          {
            "type": [
              "http://schema.org/UserComments"
            ],
            "properties": {
...

Library

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"os"

	"github.com/namsral/microdata"
)

func main() {
	var data microdata.Microdata
	data, _ = microdata.ParseURL("http://example.com/blogposting")
	b, _ := json.MarshalIndent(data, "", "  ")
	os.Stdout.Write(b)
}

For documentation see godoc.org/github.com/namsral/microdata.

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Lars Wiegman. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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