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Below are code examples of generating the parselypage metatag in different programming languages and content management systems. All of the examples use following sample post:

Variable	Value
Title	Zipf’s Law of the Internet: Explaining Online Behavior
Link	https://blog.parse.ly/post/57821746552
Image URL	https://blog.parse.ly/inline_mra670hTvL1qz4rgp.png
Type	post
Post ID	57821746552
Pub Date	2013-08-15 at 13:00:00 EST
Section	Programming
Author	Alan Alexander Milne
Tags	statistics, zipf, internet, behavior

Notice that the title has an apostrophe in the first word that could be troublesome for JSON documents. In addition, the date the article was published is given in eastern standard time (EST) where as JSON-LD requires UTC time.

WordPress

Use the wp-parsely WordPress plugin to set up tracking for your WordPress installation. Follow the installation instructions for how to set it up.

PHP

<?php
$title   = "Zipf's Law of the Internet: Explaining Online Behavior";
$link    = "https://blog.parse.ly/post/57821746552";
$imageURL  = "https://blog.parse.ly/inline_mra670hTvL1qz4rgp.png";
$section  = "Programming";
$author   = "Alan Alexander Milne";
$tags    = array("Programming", "traffic", "local");
$pubDate  = DateTime::createFromFormat("Y-m-d H:i:s P", "2012-01-01 11:34:02 -05:00");
function getCleanParselyPageValue($val) {
$val = str_replace("n", "", $val);
$val = str_replace("r", "", $val);
return $val;
}
$parselyPage = array();
$parselyPage["title"]    = getCleanParselyPageValue($title);
$parselyPage["link"]    = $link;
$parselyPage["image_url"]  = $imageURL;
$parselyPage["type"]    = "post";
$parselyPage["post_id"]   = "57821746552";
$parselyPage["pub_date"]  = gmdate("Y-m-dTH:i:sZ", $pubDate->getTimestamp());
$parselyPage["section"]   = getCleanParselyPageValue($section);
$parselyPage["author"]   = getCleanParselyPageValue($author);
$parselyPage["tags"]    = $tags;
$output = "<script type="application/ld+json"> " . json_encode($parselyPage, JSON_HEX_APOS | JSON_HEX_QUOT) . " </script>";
?>

Python

import datetime
import json
import pytz
def get_clean_parsely_page_value(string):
  return string.replace('n', ' ').replace("'", "u0027")
title    = "Zipf's Law of the Internet: Explaining Online Behavior"
link    = "https://blog.parse.ly/post/57821746552"
image_url  = "https://blog.parse.ly/inline_mra670hTvL1qz4rgp.png"
section   = "Programming"
author   = "Alan Alexander Milne"
pub_date  = datetime.datetime(2012, 1, 1, 11, 34, 2, tzinfo=pytz.timezone("US/Eastern"))
tags    = ["statistics", "zipf", "internet", "behavior"]
parsely_page = {
  "title": get_clean_parsely_page_value(title),
  "link": link,
  "image_url": image_url,
  "type": "post",
  "post_id": "57821746552",
  "pub_date": pub_date.astimezone(pytz.utc).strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"),
  "section": get_clean_parsely_page_value(section),
  "author": get_clean_parsely_page_value(author),
  "tags": tags
}
output = '<script type="application/ld+json"> %s </script>' % json.dumps(parsely_page)

Ruby

require 'date'
title    = "Zipf's Law of the Internet: Explaining Online Behavior"
link    = "https://blog.parse.ly/post/57821746552"
image_url  = "https://blog.parse.ly/inline_mra670hTvL1qz4rgp.png"
section   = "Programming"
author   = "Alan Alexander Milne"
pub_date  = Time.new(2012,1,1,11,34,2, '-05:00')
tags    = ["statistics", "zipf", "internet", "behavior"]
def get_clean_parsely_page_value(val)
  return val.gsub(/n/, "").gsub(/'/, "u0027")
parsely_page = {}
parsely_page[:title]   = get_clean_parsely_page_value(title)
parsely_page[:link]    = link
parsely_page[:image_url] = image_url
parsely_page[:type]    = "post"
parsely_page[:post_id]  = "57821746552"
parsely_page[:pub_date]  = pub_date.utc.strftime("%FT%TZ")
parsely_page[:section]  = get_clean_parsely_page_value(section)
parsely_page[:author]   = get_clean_parsely_page_value(author)
parsely_page[:tags]    = tags
output = "<script type="application/ld+json"> #{JSON.generate(parsely_page)} </script>"