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A Cheerio helper library for my Node.js automation modules. Installed through NPM with:
npm install metaparser --save-dev
Simply require the module and execute it with an optional array of configuration.
Defaults are shown below:
var metaparser = require('metaparser');
metaparser({
source: null,
add: null,
remove: null,
out: null,
callback: null
});
Example usage:
metaparser({
source: 'test/index.html',
add: '<link rel="author" href="humans.txt" />',
remove: 'link[rel="author"]',
out: 'test/index2.html',
callback: function (error, data) {
console.log(error, data);
}
});
Data can be provided directly:
metaparser({
data: '<html><head><meta name="author" content="Superman"></head></html>',
add: '<link rel="author" href="humans.txt" />',
remove: 'link[rel="author"]',
out: 'test/index2.html',
callback: function (error, data) {
console.log(error, data);
}
});
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A Cheerio helper library for my Node.js automation modules
The npm package metaparser receives a total of 4,063 weekly downloads. As such, metaparser popularity was classified as popular.
We found that metaparser demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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