URL Metadata — Link Preview & OpenGraph Data to JSON

Get clean link-preview metadata for any URL — as JSON. Pass a list of URLs and get back a tidy row per page: title, description, OpenGraph image, site name, canonical URL, favicon, Twitter Card and more. Fast, no setup, no anti-bot.

AI-agent ready: this Actor is callable and payable by AI agents via x402 (USDC on Base), no Apify account required.

Build rich link previews, enrich bookmarks, or audit a site's social/SEO tags in one run.

Who uses this

• 🔗 App & chat builders — generate rich link previews (like Slack/Discord/iMessage).
• 📝 Content & CMS tools — auto-fill titles, images and descriptions from URLs.
• 🔎 SEO & marketing — audit OpenGraph, Twitter Card and canonical tags at scale.
• 🤖 Data & AI pipelines — enrich URL datasets with clean metadata.
• 🧑‍💻 Developers — a reliable metadata endpoint without parsing HTML yourself.

What you get — one clean row per URL

Field	Description
title	Page / OpenGraph title
description	Meta / OG description
image	OpenGraph preview image
siteName	Site name
canonicalUrl	Canonical URL
favicon	Favicon URL
type	OG type (article, website…)
twitterCard + twitterSite	Twitter Card data
author + publishedTime	Author & publish time
themeColor, keywords, language	Extra meta
httpStatus, url, scrapedAt	Status & provenance

Example

Input

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

Output (one item)

{
  "url": "https://apify.com",
  "httpStatus": 200,
  "title": "Apify: Full-stack web scraping and data extraction platform",
  "description": "Cloud platform for web scraping, browser automation, and data extraction.",
  "image": "https://apify.com/og-image.png",
  "siteName": "Apify",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://apify.com/",
  "favicon": "https://apify.com/favicon.ico"
}

Why this actor

• ✅ Everything for a preview — title, description, image, favicon, site name.
• 🐦 Social tags — OpenGraph and Twitter Card in one shot.
• 🔗 Canonical & language — clean, deduplicated, localized data.
• ⚡ Fast & affordable — pay only per URL returned. No setup, no anti-bot.
• 🛟 Robust — a bad URL never breaks the batch.

Input options

• urls (required) — page URLs (https:// added automatically if missing).

FAQ

Does it return the OG image? Yes — image holds the OpenGraph preview image when present.

Twitter Card too? Yes — twitterCard and twitterSite are included.

Can I process many URLs at once? Yes — pass a list; each row carries its own URL and metadata.

How fresh is the data? Live — it fetches each page in real time on every run.

Can I export to CSV/Excel/Google Sheets? Yes — the dataset exports to JSON, CSV, Excel and HTML, or pull it via the API.

What does it cost? Pay-per-URL — you're only charged for URLs actually returned.

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Tip: feed your bookmark or CMS URLs through this to auto-generate consistent, rich link previews.