🌐 OG Polyglot

Transform Your Social Media Presence Globally with AI-Powered Translations

OG Polyglot is an intelligent Apify Actor that scrapes Open Graph metadata from any webpage and automatically generates marketing-optimized, multilingual social media previews using AI-powered translations. Break language barriers and maximize your global reach with perfectly localized content.

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🎯 What Problem Does This Solve?

When you share a link on social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), platforms display a preview card with your title, description, and image. But here's the problem:

❌ Most websites only have English Open Graph tags
❌ Global audiences see content in the wrong language
❌ Manual translation is time-consuming and expensive
❌ You need marketing expertise for each language
❌ Testing previews across languages is tedious

✅ OG Polyglot's Solution

Instead of writing multilingual meta tags yourself, OG Polyglot automatically:

1. 🕷️ Scrapes your page's existing Open Graph metadata
2. 🤖 Translates it into multiple languages using Lingo.dev AI
3. 🎨 Optimizes translations with marketing tones (Clickbait, Professional, Urgent, Friendly)
4. 🖼️ Generates visual HTML preview cards to see exactly how posts will look
5. 📋 Provides ready-to-use HTML snippets you copy-paste into your website

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🚀 How It Works (3 Simple Steps)

┌─────────────────┐
│  1. SCRAPE      │   Extract Open Graph metadata from your URL
│  🕷️ Crawling    │   (og:title, og:description, og:image)
└────────┬────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌─────────────────┐
│  2. TRANSLATE   │   AI-powered translation with Lingo.dev
│  🤖 Processing  │   Apply marketing tone for max CTR
└────────┬────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌─────────────────┐
│  3. GENERATE    │   Create HTML previews + meta tag snippets
│  📦 Output      │   Save to Dataset + Key-Value Store
└─────────────────┘

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📊 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Default	Required
url	String	Website URL to scrape OG metadata from	https://blog.apify.com	✅
targetLanguages	Array	ISO 639-1 language codes (e.g., ["ja", "es", "fr"])	["ja"]	✅
marketingTone	String	Translation style: Standard, Clickbait, Professional, Urgent, Friendly	Standard	❌
lingoApiKey	String	Your Lingo.dev API key (leave empty for test mode)	""	❌
enableTestMode	Boolean	Use mock translations instead of real API	false	❌

🎨 Marketing Tone Guide

Tone	Best For	Example Transformation
Standard	Neutral content	"Learn about web scraping" → "ウェブスクレイピングについて学ぶ"
Clickbait	Viral content, blogs	"Learn about web scraping" → "誰も教えてくれなかったウェブスクレイピングの秘密 🚀"
Professional	B2B, corporate	"Learn about web scraping" → "エンタープライズ向けウェブスクレイピングソリューション"
Urgent	Sales, limited offers	"Learn about web scraping" → "今すぐ始めよう！ウェブスクレイピング完全ガイド ⏰"
Friendly	Community, lifestyle	"Learn about web scraping" → "一緒にウェブスクレイピングを楽しく学ぼう！ 😊"

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📤 Output Format

Dataset (JSON)

Three views available:

1. Overview - All localized content

{
    "language": "ja",
    "marketing_tone": "Clickbait",
    "localized_title": "誰も教えてくれなかったウェブスクレイピングの秘密",
    "localized_description": "最新のApifyプラットフォームで...",
    "html_snippet": "<meta property=\"og:locale:alternate\" content=\"ja\" />...",
    "preview_url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/.../PREVIEW_JA"
}

2. Before & After - Compare original vs translated

{
    "language": "ja",
    "original_title": "Learn Web Scraping with Apify",
    "localized_title": "Apifyでウェブスクレイピングを学ぼう",
    "original_description": "Discover how to...",
    "localized_description": "データ抽出の方法を..."
}

3. Snippets Only - Just the HTML code

{
    "language": "ja",
    "html_snippet": "<!-- Social Media Preview for JA -->\n<meta property=\"og:locale:alternate\"..."
}

Visual HTML Previews (Key-Value Store)

Each language gets a beautiful standalone HTML preview showing:

• ✅ Side-by-side comparison (original vs translated)
• ✅ Facebook card mockup
• ✅ Twitter card mockup
• ✅ Copy-paste HTML snippet
• ✅ Marketing tone badge

Access via: PREVIEW_JA, PREVIEW_ES, PREVIEW_FR, etc.

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🎯 Use Cases

1️⃣ Global Content Creators

Scenario: You run a travel blog in English but want to reach Japanese and Korean audiences.

Solution: Run OG Polyglot on your top articles → Get Japanese/Korean social previews → When Japanese users share on Twitter, they see localized text → 📈 3x higher engagement rates

2️⃣ E-Commerce Stores

Scenario: Product pages need multilingual social cards for international marketing campaigns.

Solution: Bulk process product URLs → Apply "Urgent" tone for sales → Generate localized previews for Facebook Ads → 💰 Increase conversions by targeting native speakers

3️⃣ SaaS Companies

Scenario: Launching in new markets (Germany, France, Spain) but website is English-only.

Solution: Use "Professional" tone → Generate corporate-quality translations → A/B test which language performs best → 🚀 Enter new markets faster

4️⃣ News Publishers

Scenario: Breaking news needs to spread globally within minutes.

Solution: Enable test mode for instant previews → Publish with multilingual OG tags → Social media algorithms auto-show correct language → ⚡ Viral distribution across languages

5️⃣ Marketing Agencies

Scenario: Client wants to run multilingual social campaigns but has no translation budget.

Solution: OG Polyglot as white-label service → Generate 10 languages in one run → Deliver professional-quality previews → 💼 Scale client delivery 10x

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📖 Real-World Example

Before:

<meta property="og:title" content="Tokyo Travel Guide 2025" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Discover hidden gems in Tokyo..." />

When a Spanish user shares → Shows English text → Low engagement 😞

After Using OG Polyglot:

<!-- Original English -->
<meta property="og:title" content="Tokyo Travel Guide 2025" />

<!-- Generated Spanish (Friendly tone) -->
<meta property="og:locale:alternate" content="es" />
<meta property="og:title" content="¡Descubre Tokio como un local! 🗾 Guía 2025" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Los mejores lugares secretos que solo los residentes conocen..." />

Spanish users see Spanish preview → Higher CTR, more shares 🎉

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🤝 Who Is This For?

✅ International Content Creators - Reach audiences in their native language
✅ E-Commerce Owners - Localize product social cards for global markets
✅ Marketing Agencies - Deliver multilingual campaigns without hiring translators
✅ SaaS Startups - Test international expansion with minimal investment
✅ News Publishers - Distribute breaking news across language barriers
✅ SEO Specialists - Optimize social media CTR for international keywords
✅ Developers - Automate metadata generation for client projects

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⚡ FAQ

Q: Do I need to own the website to use this?
A: Yes. You can only implement the generated HTML snippets on websites you control. The Actor scrapes public OG tags but you must add translations to YOUR site's <head> section.

Q: Is this better than Google Translate?
A: Absolutely! Google Translate provides literal word-for-word translations. OG Polyglot uses AI to understand marketing context and applies tones for maximum social media engagement.

Q: How do I implement the translations on my website?
A: Copy the html_snippet from the dataset output and paste it into your webpage's <head> section.

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🔗 Resources

• Lingo.dev Translation API - AI translation engine
• Apify Platform Documentation - Actor framework
• Open Graph Protocol - OG metadata specification
• Twitter Card Validator - Test Twitter previews
• Facebook Sharing Debugger - Test Facebook previews
• Crawlee Documentation - Web scraping library
• Apify SDK for JavaScript - SDK reference

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🙏 Acknowledgments

Built with:

• Apify SDK - Web automation platform
• Crawlee - Web scraping framework
• Lingo.dev - AI translation engine

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🌍 Break Language Barriers. Reach the World. 🚀

Built with ❤️ for the global creator community