# Feature Request: getOpenGraph Func

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/feature-request-getopengraph-func/12022>\
**Category:** dev\
**Created:** [May 16, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/feature-request-getopengraph-func/12022 "2018-05-16T21:15:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/feature-request-getopengraph-func/12022/13 "2018-05-21T12:11:07Z")

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There are some issues with this approach:

1. It falls into the “web scraping” category, of which we have discussed if falls in to the gray or black area
2. The services in question (YouTube) have exposed APIs for this for a reason, and I will suspect that they have some fine print written about going the “scraping route” to get more data

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