# Social Preview Audit (Open Graph) (`conserving_mastodon/social-preview-audit`) Actor

Will your links unfurl correctly on social and chat platforms? Open Graph tags, Twitter card, canonical, and title/description lengths checked per URL, with og:image actually verified reachable, not just present. Specific issues per URL. Charged only on completed audits.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/conserving\_mastodon/social-preview-audit.md
- **Developed by:** [Chris Arsenault](https://apify.com/conserving_mastodon) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Marketing, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$250.00 / 1,000 completed audits

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Social Preview Audit (Open Graph)

**Why does the link look broken when shared?** This Actor answers it before anyone shares: for each URL it checks the Open Graph tags, the Twitter card, the canonical link, and title/description lengths — and it **verifies the og:image actually loads**, which is where most preview failures hide (an image URL that exists in markup and 404s in reality).

### Output

Summary plus one row per URL:

```json
{
  "url": "https://example.com/launch-post/",
  "og_title": "Our Big Launch",
  "og_image": "https://cdn.example.com/launch.png",
  "og_image_reachable": false,
  "twitter_card": null,
  "issues": [
    "og:image URL is dead (preview shows a broken image)",
    "twitter:card missing (X/Twitter uses a minimal preview)"
  ]
}
```

### Use cases

- **Before campaigns**: audit every URL in the send list; broken previews burn the best channel you have.
- **Agents publishing content**: verify the preview right after publishing, automatically.
- **Site-wide sweeps**: feed a sitemap's top URLs and fix the pages people actually share.

### Honesty notes

- Static HTML is what's audited; previews injected purely by client-side JavaScript are invisible to most platform crawlers too, so this matches how platforms actually see the page.
- One GET per URL plus one HEAD per og:image; up to 50 URLs per run.
- If none of the URLs are reachable, the run says so and **you are not charged**; billing is per completed audit.

Built by 1450 Enterprises.

# Actor input Schema

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

Up to 50 URLs whose social previews (Open Graph, Twitter card, canonical) are audited.

## Actor input object example

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

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Summary: clean count, missing/dead og:image counts. Per URL: og tags found, image reachability, Twitter card, canonical, and specific issues.

# 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://example.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("conserving_mastodon/social-preview-audit").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://example.com"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("conserving_mastodon/social-preview-audit").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://example.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call conserving_mastodon/social-preview-audit --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

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/2SaZH2CgHQJ1eZhFY/builds/WWCsZJmWvgcfQPrSD/openapi.json