# Open Graph & Social Preview Checker: Share Cards (`centorprat/open-graph-social-preview-checker`) Actor

Give it URLs. For each it reads the Open Graph and Twitter Card tags, builds the exact preview each platform shows when the page is shared (title, description, image, type), and validates completeness for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Slack - with findings. Keyless, read-only.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/centorprat/open-graph-social-preview-checker.md
- **Developed by:** [Centor Prat](https://apify.com/centorprat) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $17.00 / 1,000 page checkeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Open Graph & Social Preview Checker: Share Cards

**See exactly how your page looks when it's shared — before you post it.** Give it URLs; for each it reads
the **Open Graph** and **Twitter Card** tags, builds the **share preview** (title, description, image,
type, site name) each platform renders, and validates completeness for **Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X and
Slack** — with concrete findings. Keyless, agent-callable.

> 📣 **Read-only.** It parses the page's meta tags. Platforms cache and may crop images — confirm in each
> platform's official debugger for the final render.

### 📋 What each report contains

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `signal` | `complete` / `incomplete` / `missing` / `unreachable` |
| `preview` | The resolved title, description, **image** (absolute URL), url, type, site name, twitter card |
| `openGraph` / `twitter` | The raw `og:*` and `twitter:*` tags found |
| `perPlatform` | Completeness for Facebook / LinkedIn / Twitter / Slack |
| `findings` | The specific missing tags (e.g. no `og:image`, no `twitter:card`) |

### 📥 Input

```json
{ "urls": ["https://your-site.com/blog/post", "https://your-site.com/product"] }
```

### 📤 Example output (real run, trimmed)

```json
{ "finalUrl": "https://www.apple.com/", "signal": "incomplete",
  "preview": { "title": "Apple", "image": "https://www.apple.com/.../og.png", "twitterCard": null },
  "perPlatform": { "facebook": true, "linkedin": true, "twitter": true },
  "findings": ["No twitter:card - X uses a basic/fallback preview."] }
```

### 💰 Pricing (pay-per-event)

- **Page checked — $0.02** per URL fetched.

### 💡 Use cases

- **Marketing / social / content:** make sure every shared link renders a rich card with an image.
- **E-commerce / publishers:** a missing `og:image` quietly kills click-through on social — catch it.
- **Agencies / QA:** validate share previews across a client's key pages before a campaign.
- **Agents:** callable as an MCP tool — give it URLs, get back the social preview and gaps.

### 🔑 Keyless & agent-callable

No API keys, no accounts, no paid child Actors — just a read-only fetch and parse.

### 🚀 Ready-made tasks (one click)

- [Open Graph Checker - OG Tags & Share Preview](https://apify.com/centorprat/open-graph-social-preview-checker/examples/open-graph-checker)

### 🤖 For AI agents (MCP)

```
https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=actors,docs,centorprat/open-graph-social-preview-checker
```

Loads as `centorprat--open-graph-social-preview-checker`. Claude Code:

```
claude mcp add apify -- npx -y @apify/actors-mcp-server --actors centorprat/open-graph-social-preview-checker
```

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

Pages to check, e.g. \["https://your-site.com/blog/post"]. One preview per URL.

## `webhookUrl` (type: `string`):

If set, results are POSTed here as JSON.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.apple.com/"
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `previews` (type: `string`):

One report per URL: the share preview (title, description, image, url, type, site name, twitter card), the raw Open Graph and Twitter tags, per-platform completeness (Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter/Slack), and findings.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://www.apple.com/"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("centorprat/open-graph-social-preview-checker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "urls": ["https://www.apple.com/"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("centorprat/open-graph-social-preview-checker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.apple.com/"
  ]
}' |
apify call centorprat/open-graph-social-preview-checker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,centorprat/open-graph-social-preview-checker"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/muE4ZKW4zHMbbZPVD/builds/zdz9CxXVcUKYSUQ1f/openapi.json