🏦 Google "About This Site" Metadata & Domain Intelligence API

Extract official Google Knowledge Graph site descriptions, salient image URLs, and Knowledge Graph entity MIDs directly from internal Chrome API gateways.

Bypass standard scraped SERPs entirely! This Actor leverages direct, binary Protobuf connections to retrieve official domain metadata, Wikipedia summaries, and registered knowledge entities. Ideal for domain intelligence, bulk SEO analysis, brand trust validation, and semantic topic indexing.

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🌟 Key Features

• Official Domain Descriptions: Fetch Google's official registered text description and legal sources for any target website.
• Knowledge Graph Entity MIDs: Extract machine entity IDs (/m/... and /g/...) representing the semantic categories of the target site.
• Salient Image Extraction: Get high-quality site branding or logo image URLs extracted by Google's semantic indexing engines.
• Wikipedia Source Mapping: Resolves exact references used by the Google Knowledge Graph to build site confidence lists.
• Ultra-Fast Performance: Bypasses the latency and cost of running heavy browser-automation scrapers.
• Organized Tabular Datasets: Results are neatly formatted for seamless export to Excel, CSV, or HTML tables in the Apify Console.

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🛠️ How It Works

This Actor queries an edge-optimized Cloudflare Worker gateway which crafts real-time binary Protobuf envelopes. It submits these payloads directly to Google's internal Chrome Optimization Guide endpoints, decodes the incoming stream, and parses structured entities on the fly.

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📥 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Description	Prefill Example
Target Domain / URL	string	The domain name or base URL to fetch intelligence for.	google.com

Input JSON Example

{
  "url": "google.com"
}

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📤 Output Data Structure

Parsed results are output to the default dataset as a structured tabular row:

Output JSON Example

{
  "success": true,
  "target_url": "https://google.com/",
  "description": "Google Search, or simply Google, is a search engine operated by Google.",
  "source_name": "Wikipedia",
  "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search",
  "salient_image_url": "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:...",
  "entity_mids": [
    "/m/045c7b",
    "/g/11b816..."
  ]
}

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💳 Monetization & Cost

This Actor utilizes the Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model on the Apify Store:

• Base Pricing: Only $1.00 per 1,000 domains ($0.001 per event).
• No Server Execution Costs: You are only charged for successful metadata extractions. If the domain has no recorded metadata or query fails, you pay nothing!