# URL & Meta Extractor (`yummy_persimmon_er1/url-title-meta-extractor`) Actor

Extract the title and meta description from any URL – perfect for SEO checks, data enrichment, or quick research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/yummy\_persimmon\_er1/url-title-meta-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [Mitchel Davis](https://apify.com/yummy_persimmon_er1) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Developer tools, Open source
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 url extracteds

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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

## URL & Meta Extractor

Extract the page `<title>` and meta description from any list of URLs.
Useful for quick SEO checks, content audits, data enrichment, or research
where you need to know what a page's title/description tag says without
opening it yourself.

### What it does

For each URL you provide, the actor:

1. Fetches the page (10s timeout, standard browser user-agent).
2. Parses the HTML and extracts:
   - `<title>` text
   - `<meta name="description">` content (falls back to `og:description`
     if a standard description tag isn't present)
3. Pushes one result per URL to the dataset.

### Input

```json
{
  "urls": [
    { "url": "https://apify.com" },
    { "url": "https://example.com" }
  ]
}
```

`urls` is a list of URLs to fetch (required). At least one URL is needed.

### Output

One dataset item per URL:

```json
{
  "url": "https://apify.com",
  "title": "Apify: Marketplace of ready-to-run tools for AI",
  "meta_description": "Thousands of tools to automate your business...",
  "error": null
}
```

If a URL fails to load (timeout, DNS error, non-200 response, etc.), `title`
and `meta_description` are `null` and `error` contains the failure reason —
the run still succeeds so one bad URL doesn't block the rest of your batch.

### Pricing

Pay-per-event:

- Actor Start — charged once per run
- Result — charged per URL processed
- URL Extracted — the primary usage charge, per URL successfully extracted

### Notes

- Respects a 10-second timeout per URL so one slow site can't hang the run.
- Does not execute JavaScript — reads only the raw server-rendered HTML, so
  titles/descriptions injected client-side by JS won't be captured.

# Actor input Schema

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

List of URLs to fetch. For each URL, the actor returns the page's <title> and meta description.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://apify.com"
    }
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("yummy_persimmon_er1/url-title-meta-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" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("yummy_persimmon_er1/url-title-meta-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"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call yummy_persimmon_er1/url-title-meta-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,yummy_persimmon_er1/url-title-meta-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/bE1cwXIvEA71LFhna/builds/tvKhCELbHvWCnT1mH/openapi.json