URL Metadata & Open Graph Link Preview Extractor

What does URL Metadata Extractor do?

URL Metadata & Link Preview Extractor reads any list of URLs and returns everything you need to build a link preview or audit a page's SEO metadata: title, description, preview image, site name, favicon, canonical URL, language, RSS/Atom feeds, all Open Graph and Twitter Card tags, and JSON-LD / schema.org structured data.

Use it as a bulk Open Graph checker, meta tag extractor, link preview API or schema.org / JSON-LD scraper for thousands of URLs.

Why use it?

• ⚡ Fast bulk lookups – plain HTTP, 10–20 URLs in parallel, no browser.
• 🖼️ Ready-made link previews – title, description, image and favicons with smart fallbacks (Open Graph → Twitter Card → HTML tags), and image URLs made absolute.
• 🔎 SEO audit data – canonical URL, robots meta, keywords, theme color, language and schema.org types in one row.
• 📰 Feed discovery – finds RSS and Atom feed links.
• 💸 Pay per URL – only successfully fetched URLs are charged. Errors are free.
• 🤖 Great for AI agents – lets an agent "peek" at a link cheaply before deciding to read the whole page.

How to use it

1. Paste URLs into URLs (one per line, or upload a file).
2. Click Start.
3. Download results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or fetch them through the API.

Input example

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://github.com/apify/crawlee" }],
  "includeJsonLd": true
}

Output example

{
  "url": "https://github.com/apify/crawlee",
  "statusCode": 200,
  "title": "GitHub - apify/crawlee: Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library",
  "description": "Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js ...",
  "image": "https://opengraph.githubassets.com/.../apify/crawlee",
  "siteName": "GitHub",
  "type": "object",
  "language": "en",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://github.com/apify/crawlee",
  "favicons": [{ "rel": "icon", "href": "https://github.githubassets.com/favicons/favicon.svg", "sizes": null }],
  "feeds": [],
  "openGraph": { "title": "...", "image": "...", "site_name": "GitHub" },
  "twitterCard": { "card": "summary_large_image", "site": "@github" },
  "jsonLdTypes": [],
  "error": null
}

How much does it cost?

This Actor uses pay-per-event (PPE) pricing: you pay only for results, and the Apify platform compute it uses is already included.

Event	Price	Per 1,000
URL processed	$0.001 per URL	$1.00 per 1,000 URLs
Actor start	$0.0005 per run	–

URLs that fail to load are not charged. For example, 1,000 URLs cost about $1.00. The Actor start fee is charged once per run (one event per GB of memory; the default memory setting counts as one). You can set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached. Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly credit, enough to try it at no cost.

Use cases

• Link unfurling / previews in chat apps, CMSs and newsletters
• SEO and social-sharing audits (missing og:image, wrong canonical, missing description)
• Enriching URL lists for lead research, bookmarking and content curation
• Giving AI agents a cheap summary of a link

FAQ

How many URLs can I check? Thousands per run; URLs are fetched in parallel and you pay only for successful ones.

Can I use it from an AI agent or no-code tool? Yes – via the Apify API, the Apify MCP server, Make, Zapier or n8n.

Limitations

Only public pages are supported. Metadata injected by JavaScript after page load is not visible to plain HTTP requests (most sites render it server-side for social crawlers, so this is rarely an issue).

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