# Link Preview & Page Metadata Extractor — Open Graph, Favicon (`tidydata/page-metadata-extractor`) Actor

Metadata extractor for any web page: title, meta tags and description, Open Graph and Twitter card data, favicon, language, canonical URL and JSON-LD. The data behind link previews. $0.50 per 1,000 URLs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tidydata/page-metadata-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [tidydata](https://apify.com/tidydata) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.40 / 1,000 page reads

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 🔗 Link Preview & Page Metadata Extractor

Get the data behind link previews: **title, description, Open Graph and Twitter card fields, preview image, favicon, site name, language, canonical URL, author, publish time** and optionally the page's **JSON-LD (schema.org)**. **$0.50 per 1,000 URLs.**

- ✅ Fast, no browser: thousands of pages per run
- ✅ Smart fallbacks (Open Graph → Twitter → standard meta tags)
- ✅ Absolute URLs for images and icons
- ✅ Optional **structured data** (products, articles, organizations, events)
- ✅ Great for **link previews in apps, bookmarking tools, content curation and SEO checks**

### How to use it

1. Paste page links.
2. Optionally enable JSON-LD.
3. Run and export CSV, Excel or JSON.

### Output example

```json
{
  "url": "https://github.com",
  "title": "GitHub: Let's build from here",
  "description": "GitHub is where over 100 million developers shape the future of software.",
  "ogImage": "https://github.githubassets.com/images/modules/open_graph/github-logo.png",
  "favicon": "https://github.githubassets.com/favicons/favicon.svg",
  "siteName": "GitHub", "lang": "en", "canonical": "https://github.com/"
}
```

### Pricing

**$0.0005 per page** ($0.50 per 1,000). Pages that fail are free.

### Notes

- It reads the HTML the server sends; pages that build their metadata only in the browser may return less.

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

Web pages to read. Links without https:// are fixed automatically. Up to 100,000 per run.

## `includeJsonLd` (type: `boolean`):

Also return the structured data blocks (schema.org) found in the page, such as products, articles or organizations.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://apify.com"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news"
    }
  ],
  "includeJsonLd": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One row per result.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "urls": [
        {
            "url": "https://apify.com"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://github.com"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tidydata/page-metadata-extractor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "urls": [
        { "url": "https://apify.com" },
        { "url": "https://github.com" },
        { "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news" },
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tidydata/page-metadata-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://apify.com"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call tidydata/page-metadata-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tidydata/page-metadata-extractor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/BPUcrAGUVO4iiW9ZX/builds/4rbAdjoIY3UvgSzTf/openapi.json