cover-image-crawler

Get the url of main image of page's using scraping in each IMG tag on the site and return the largest image found.

Usually it takes 1 second to return the result, if not found the return will be empty.

Installation

npm install cover-image-crawler

Use example

const imageCrawler = require('cover-image-crawler');

imageCrawler.capture('https://www.diariodepernambuco.com.br/noticia/viver/2019/07/vintage-culture-e-mais-cinco-atracoes-em-festival-eletronico-no-recife.html', function(err, image_url){
  if(!err){
    console.log(image_url);
  }
})

Use example - Async/Await

const imageCrawler = require('cover-image-crawler');

async function test(){
    
    let teste =  await imageCrawler.capture('https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50863967');
    console.log(teste);
}
test()

Open to contributions and improvements

Newspaper sites working with accuracy

• https://www.nytimes.com
• https://oglobo.globo.com
• https://www.theguardian.com
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/
• https://www.wsj.com/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/
• ...

Test now on Vercel : https://info-link-node-api.vercel.app/

Work for future versions:

Ability options how: HTML tags to make the scraping (beyond <img)