URL Metadata Extractor - OG Tags, Twitter Cards, Favicons & Structured Data

Extract Open Graph tags, Twitter Card data, favicons, JSON-LD structured data, and meta tags from any URL. Perfect for building link previews, SEO audits, social media card previews, and content analysis tools. No API key required.

Features

• Open Graph extraction — Get og:title, og:description, og:image, og:type, og:url, and all OG properties
• Twitter Card extraction — Extract twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image
• Favicon detection — Find favicon, apple-touch-icon, and shortcut icon URLs
• JSON-LD structured data — Parse all Schema.org structured data from the page
• Meta tag extraction — Get all meta tags (robots, viewport, author, keywords, etc.)
• Heading structure — Extract H1 and H2 headings for content analysis
• Link analysis — Count internal vs external links
• Image count — Total images and first image URL
• Performance metrics — Response time and content length
• Redirect tracking — Follow redirects and report final URL
• Canonical URL — Extract the canonical link tag
• Bulk extraction — Process up to 20 URLs in one request
• Instant API — Real-time HTTP endpoint via Apify Standby mode

Use Cases

• Link preview generation — Build rich link previews like Slack, Discord, or Twitter
• SEO auditing — Check OG tags, meta descriptions, canonical URLs, and structured data
• Social media tools — Preview how URLs will look when shared on social platforms
• Content aggregation — Extract titles, descriptions, and images for content feeds
• Competitive analysis — Analyze competitor page metadata and SEO setup
• Web scraping pipelines — Pre-process URLs to get metadata before deep scraping
• Bookmark managers — Auto-populate bookmark metadata from URLs

Input

Field	Type	Description
url	String	Single URL to extract metadata from
urls	Array	Multiple URLs to extract (max 20)

Input Example

{
  "url": "https://github.com"
}

Bulk Example

{
  "urls": [
    "https://github.com",
    "https://twitter.com",
    "https://medium.com"
  ]
}

Output

{
  "url": "https://github.com",
  "final_url": "https://github.com/",
  "status_code": 200,
  "title": "GitHub: Let's build from here",
  "description": "GitHub is where over 100 million developers shape the future of software...",
  "canonical": "https://github.com/",
  "language": "en",
  "favicon": "https://github.githubassets.com/favicons/favicon.svg",
  "open_graph": {
    "title": "GitHub: Let's build from here",
    "description": "GitHub is where over 100 million developers...",
    "image": "https://github.githubassets.com/assets/social-...",
    "type": "website",
    "url": "https://github.com/"
  },
  "twitter_card": {
    "card": "summary_large_image",
    "title": "GitHub: Let's build from here",
    "description": "GitHub is where over 100 million developers...",
    "image": "https://github.githubassets.com/assets/social-..."
  },
  "meta_tags": {
    "viewport": "width=device-width",
    "robots": "index, follow"
  },
  "structured_data": [],
  "headings": {
    "h1": ["Let's build from here"],
    "h2": ["The world's leading AI-powered developer platform"]
  },
  "images": { "count": 15, "first_image": "https://..." },
  "links": { "internal": 45, "external": 12 },
  "performance": { "response_time_ms": 234, "content_length": 145023 },
  "error": null
}

API Endpoints (Standby Mode)

GET /extract

$curl "https://YOUR-STANDBY-URL/extract?url=https://github.com"

POST /extract/bulk

curl -X POST "https://YOUR-STANDBY-URL/extract/bulk" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls":["https://github.com","https://twitter.com"]}'

Pricing

• $0.003 per URL extracted
• No charge for failed requests
• Bulk requests charge per URL

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