# URL Metadata & Open Graph Link Preview Extractor (`digital-tools/url-metadata-extractor`) Actor

Get title, description, preview image, favicon, canonical URL, Open Graph, Twitter Card, RSS feeds and JSON-LD schema from any list of URLs. Fast bulk link-preview API for AI agents, SEO audits and unfurling links.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/digital-tools/url-metadata-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [凡 方](https://apify.com/digital-tools) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Developer tools, AI
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

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?

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

### 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

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

#### Output example

```json
{
  "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).

### Other tools by Digital-Tools

- [Webpage to Markdown for LLMs & RAG](https://apify.com/Digital-Tools/webpage-to-markdown) – Convert any web page URL into clean, LLM-ready Markdown.
- [Broken Link Checker - Find 404s & Dead Links](https://apify.com/Digital-Tools/broken-link-checker) – Crawl a website and check every internal and external link for 404s, 5xx errors, timeouts and redirects.
- [Chinese Simplified/Traditional Converter & Pinyin Toolkit](https://apify.com/Digital-Tools/chinese-text-toolkit) – Bulk convert Simplified ↔ Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong variants with phrase conversion), generate pinyin with tones or initials, segment Chinese words and extract keywords.
- [Sitemap URL Extractor - Get All URLs from sitemap.xml](https://apify.com/Digital-Tools/sitemap-url-extractor) – Extract every URL from a website's XML sitemaps.
- [RSS & Atom Feed Reader - Parse Any Feed to JSON](https://apify.com/Digital-Tools/rss-feed-reader) – Read RSS, Atom and RDF feeds in bulk and get clean JSON: title, link, date, author, categories, summary, full content, images and podcast enclosures.
- [SSL Certificate & DNS Checker - Bulk Domain Expiry Monitor](https://apify.com/Digital-Tools/ssl-dns-checker) – Check SSL/TLS certificates and DNS records for many domains at once: expiry date, days left, issuer, SANs, TLS version, validity, plus A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, TXT, CAA, SOA, SPF and DMARC.
- [PDF, Word, PowerPoint & Excel to Text Extractor](https://apify.com/Digital-Tools/document-to-text) – Extract text from PDF, DOCX, PPTX and XLSX files by URL.

**Need another field?** Open an issue in the **Issues** tab.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Web page URLs to process. Paste one per line or upload a file.

## `includeJsonLd` (type: `boolean`):

Include the full parsed JSON-LD structured data (schema.org). Types are always listed in jsonLdTypes.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many URLs to fetch in parallel.

## `timeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Timeout for each HTTP request.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/apify/crawlee"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news"
    }
  ],
  "includeJsonLd": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 10,
  "timeoutSecs": 20
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Dataset with one item per processed input.

# 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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://github.com/apify/crawlee"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("digital-tools/url-metadata-extractor").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 = { "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://github.com/apify/crawlee" },
        { "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news" },
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("digital-tools/url-metadata-extractor").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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/apify/crawlee"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call digital-tools/url-metadata-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,digital-tools/url-metadata-extractor"
        }
    }
}
```

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/k1HQTFT7crzwnlCGy/builds/ZVclYuAcaGY7mamuN/openapi.json