# HTML Metadata Extractor (OG, Twitter Cards, Schema.org) (`gochujang/html-metadata-extractor`) Actor

Extract structured metadata from any URL: title, description, OpenGraph (og:title/image/type/url/site_name), Twitter Cards, canonical, favicon, JSON-LD schema.org, language, h1 count, images, links. Used for link previews, SEO audits, content cataloging. $0.005/URL.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gochujang/html-metadata-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [Hojun Lee](https://apify.com/gochujang) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 metadata extracteds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## HTML Metadata Extractor

> **HTML metadata extractor** and **Open Graph scraper** — extract all **meta tags** (title, description, og:\*, Twitter Cards, canonical, favicon, JSON-LD schema.org, h1 count, images, links) from any URL. Ideal for SEO audits, link previews, and content cataloging. **$0.005 per URL.**

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### ⚡ Run in 30 seconds

Click **Start** with default settings — enter any URL and get back title, description, OpenGraph tags, Twitter Card data, canonical URL, favicon, and JSON-LD schema in one structured JSON record. Costs $0.005 per URL.

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### Input Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `urls` | array | `[]` | List of URLs to extract metadata from. Each is billed separately. |
| `url` | string | ``| Used when 'urls' is empty. |
| `userAgent` | string |`` | Custom UA. Default looks like a desktop browser. |

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### Why this exists

Whenever you build a link-preview feature (Slack-style unfurl, Discord embed, content sharing), you need to call the same dozen meta-tag lookups. This actor does it in one call, returning everything you'd ever want from `<head>`.

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### What you get per row

#### Title / description / language

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `title` | `Apify: Full-stack web scraping...` |
| `meta_description` | `Cloud platform for web scraping...` |
| `meta_keywords` | `web scraping, automation, ...` |
| `html_lang` | `en` |
| `domain` | `www.apify.com` |
| `canonical_url` | `https://www.apify.com/` |

#### OpenGraph

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `og_title` | `Apify` |
| `og_description` | `...` |
| `og_image` | `https://...og.png` |
| `og_type` | `website` |
| `og_url` | `https://...` |
| `og_site_name` | `Apify` |
| `og_locale` | `en_US` |

#### Twitter Card

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `twitter_card` | `summary_large_image` |
| `twitter_title` | `...` |
| `twitter_description` | `...` |
| `twitter_image` | `https://...` |
| `twitter_site` | `@apify` |
| `twitter_creator` | `@apify` |

#### Article-specific

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `article_published_time` | `2026-06-09T14:00:00Z` |
| `article_modified_time` | `2026-06-10T10:00:00Z` |
| `article_author` | `Jane Doe` |
| `article_section` | `Engineering` |
| `article_tags` | `["python","scraping"]` |

#### JSON-LD schema.org

Full array of structured-data objects found on the page (Article, Product, FAQPage, etc).

#### Structural stats

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `h1_count` | `1` |
| `first_h1` | `Welcome to Apify` |
| `image_count` | `34` |
| `link_count` | `127` |

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### Quick start

#### Single URL

```json
{
  "url": "https://www.apify.com/"
}
```

#### Batch

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.apify.com/",
    "https://docs.apify.com/",
    "https://www.techcrunch.com/"
  ]
}
```

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### Pricing

**Pay-Per-Event**: `$0.005 per URL.`

| Run | URLs | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Single | 1 | $0.005 |
| Batch of 100 | 100 | $0.50 |
| Daily 1K SEO audit | 1000 | $5.00 |

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### Use cases

1. **Slack/Discord link unfurl** — Power your own bot's URL preview
2. **SEO competitor audit** — Pull OG / Twitter / canonical from 100 sites at once
3. **Content catalog** — Build a database of article metadata from your RSS sources
4. **Schema.org validation** — Verify structured data is present on key pages
5. **Newsletter aggregation** — Get clean previews for each linked article

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### Related actors (same author)

- [Web Page → Markdown Converter](https://apify.com/gochujang/web-to-markdown) — Get the article body too
- [Sitemap URL Discovery](https://apify.com/gochujang/sitemap-url-discovery) — Find all URLs to extract metadata from
- [PDF Text Extractor](https://apify.com/gochujang/pdf-text-extractor)
- [JSON Schema Generator](https://apify.com/gochujang/json-schema-generator)

***

### Feedback

A short review helps SEO / content engineers find it: [Leave a review on Apify Store](https://apify.com/gochujang/html-metadata-extractor#reviews)

**Keywords:** HTML metadata extractor, Open Graph scraper, meta tags, SEO audit tool, Twitter Cards, JSON-LD, schema.org, canonical URL, link preview, favicon extractor

# Actor input Schema

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

List of URLs to extract metadata from. Each is billed separately.

## `url` (type: `string`):

Used when 'urls' is empty.

## `userAgent` (type: `string`):

Custom UA. Default looks like a desktop browser.

## `extractJsonLd` (type: `boolean`):

Parse <script type="application/ld+json"> tags into the json_ld field.

## `extractMicrodata` (type: `boolean`):

Parse HTML5 Microdata (itemscope/itemprop) into the microdata field.

## `extractOpenGraph` (type: `boolean`):

Extract og:\* meta tags (og_title, og_description, og_image, og_type, og_url, og_site_name, og_locale).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.apify.com/"
  ],
  "url": "",
  "userAgent": "",
  "extractJsonLd": true,
  "extractMicrodata": false,
  "extractOpenGraph": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (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": [
        "https://www.apify.com/"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gochujang/html-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": ["https://www.apify.com/"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gochujang/html-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": [
    "https://www.apify.com/"
  ]
}' |
apify call gochujang/html-metadata-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,gochujang/html-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/XfMBYmFC1rbv0XaGH/builds/bXcBG4RfP6KzM2T1a/openapi.json