PDF Metadata Extractor - Read PDF Info by URL API
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PDF Metadata Extractor - Read PDF Info by URL API
Extract PDF metadata without pulling full text. Input: url of a PDF. Output: JSON with title, author, subject, keywords, page count, PDF version, creation and modification dates. Fast and lightweight at $0.02 per PDF processed.
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PDF Metadata Extractor
Pull the metadata out of any PDF by URL — no full-text dump, just the facts you need, fast.
Live on the Apify Store — run it instantly or call it as an agent tool via Apify MCP.
What you get
For each PDF link you pass in, you get back:
- pages — total page count
- version — PDF format version (e.g.
1.4,1.7) - info —
title,author,subject,keywords,creator,producer - createdAt / modifiedAt — creation and modification timestamps, normalized to ISO 8601
- preview — the first ~500 characters of page one, so you can eyeball the content
Single URL or bulk — pass one url or an array of urls (up to 50 per run).
Input
{"url": "https://example.com/report.pdf","urls": ["https://example.com/whitepaper.pdf","https://example.com/invoice.pdf"],"maxPdfs": 25}
Output
{"url": "https://example.com/report.pdf","pages": 12,"version": "1.7","info": {"title": "Q3 Financial Report","author": "Jane Doe","subject": "Quarterly results","keywords": "finance, q3, report","creator": "Microsoft Word","producer": "Acrobat PDFMaker","createdAt": "2023-10-05T12:00:00.000Z","modifiedAt": "2023-10-06T09:30:00.000Z"},"preview": "Q3 Financial Report — prepared for the board of directors..."}
Each successfully processed PDF charges a single pdf-processed event.