Meta Tags Extractor

Extract SEO meta tags, Open Graph data, Twitter Cards, JSON-LD structured data, and heading analysis from any website URL(s). Built for SEO analysis, competitor research, and content auditing.

What it does

For each page, the Actor extracts:

• Basic SEO tags - title, meta description, keywords, canonical URL, robots directive, language
• Open Graph tags - og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url, og:type
• Twitter Card tags - twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image
• JSON-LD structured data - All <script type="application/ld+json"> blocks parsed as objects
• Headings analysis - H1 and H2 counts with full text content

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	required	URLs of web pages to extract meta tags from
includeOpenGraph	boolean	true	Extract Open Graph (og:*) meta tags
includeTwitterCards	boolean	true	Extract Twitter Card (twitter:*) meta tags
includeJsonLd	boolean	true	Extract JSON-LD structured data
maxPages	integer	10	Maximum number of pages to crawl (0 = unlimited)

Example input

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://apify.com" },
        { "url": "https://crawlee.dev" }
    ],
    "includeOpenGraph": true,
    "includeTwitterCards": true,
    "includeJsonLd": true,
    "maxPages": 10
}

Output

Each page produces a dataset item with this structure:

{
    "url": "https://apify.com",
    "title": "Apify: Full-stack web scraping and data extraction platform",
    "metaDescription": "Cloud platform for web scraping and automation...",
    "metaKeywords": null,
    "canonicalUrl": "https://apify.com/",
    "robots": "index, follow",
    "openGraph": {
        "og:title": "Apify: Full-stack web scraping and data extraction platform",
        "og:description": "Cloud platform for web scraping...",
        "og:image": "https://apify.com/img/og-image.png",
        "og:url": "https://apify.com/",
        "og:type": "website"
    },
    "twitterCard": {
        "twitter:card": "summary_large_image",
        "twitter:title": "Apify: Full-stack web scraping and data extraction platform",
        "twitter:description": "Cloud platform for web scraping...",
        "twitter:image": "https://apify.com/img/twitter-card.png"
    },
    "jsonLd": [
        {
            "@context": "https://schema.org",
            "@type": "Organization",
            "name": "Apify"
        }
    ],
    "headings": {
        "h1": { "count": 1, "texts": ["Full-stack web scraping platform"] },
        "h2": { "count": 4, "texts": ["Features", "Pricing", "Resources", "Company"] }
    },
    "language": "en",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-03-01T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Pages that fail to load are recorded with an error field instead:

{
    "url": "https://example.com/broken",
    "error": "Failed after 3 retries",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-03-01T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Use cases

• SEO auditing - Verify meta tags, canonical URLs, and robots directives across your site
• Competitor analysis - Compare meta tag strategies across competing websites
• Content monitoring - Track changes to titles, descriptions, and structured data over time
• Social media preview checks - Validate Open Graph and Twitter Card tags before sharing
• Structured data validation - Extract and review JSON-LD schema markup

Running locally

$apify run --input='{"startUrls": [{"url": "https://example.com"}], "maxPages": 5}'

Deploy to Apify

apify login
apify push

Technology

• Crawlee - Web scraping library with built-in anti-blocking
• Cheerio - Fast HTML parser
• Apify SDK - Actor platform toolkit