URL Metadata & Open Graph Extractor — Link Previews
Fetch URLs and extract clean, unified metadata — title, description, Open Graph and Twitter card tags, canonical, favicon — with relative URLs resolved to absolute and per-URL status. Ideal for link previews and content pipelines.
URL Metadata & Open Graph Extractor — Link Previews returns 9 documented output fields, including url, title, description, ogTitle and ogImage. Every field carries a declared type, a written description and an example value. 29 runs are recorded on Apify.
- 9
- Output fields
- 4
- Inputs
- 29
- Runs
- 2026-10-16
- Last run
01 — output
What it returns
Every field the extractor writes to its dataset, with its type, a written description and an example value.
| Field | Type | What it holds | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | stringnull | The URL this row describes. | https://example.com/pricing |
| title | stringnull | Title as the source writes it. | Wireless Bluetooth Headphones |
| description | stringnull | Description of this record, as published by the source. | <description> |
| ogTitle | stringnull | Title the page declares for social sharing. | <ogTitle> |
| ogImage | stringnull | URL of the page's OpenGraph image, used when the page is shared. | <ogImage> |
| ogSiteName | stringnull | Site name the page declares for social sharing. | <ogSiteName> |
| canonicalUrl | stringnull | Canonical URL the page declares. | <canonicalUrl> |
| faviconUrl | stringnull | URL of the site's favicon. | <faviconUrl> |
| hasOpenGraph | booleannull | Whether the page declares OpenGraph metadata. | true |
02 — sample
One record
Assembled from the example values declared on the schema above, not invented at render time.
{
"url": "https://example.com/pricing",
"title": "Wireless Bluetooth Headphones",
"description": "<description>",
"ogTitle": "<ogTitle>",
"ogImage": "<ogImage>",
"ogSiteName": "<ogSiteName>",
"canonicalUrl": "<canonicalUrl>",
"faviconUrl": "<faviconUrl>"
}03 — input
What you give it
| Input | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| urls | arrayrequired | Pages to read metadata from (with or without https://). |
| useProxy | booleanoptional | Route through a proxy for sites that block datacenter IPs. |
| maxConcurrency | integeroptional | Fetch speed. |
| maxItems | integeroptional | Hard cap on results. Strictly enforced. |
04 — run
Run URL Metadata & Open Graph Extractor on your own input
It runs in the cloud on Apify. Nothing to install, and you are billed per result returned rather than per attempt.
05 — questions
Asked before running it
9 of 9 fields described
- What does URL Metadata & Open Graph Extractor — Link Previews return?
- It returns 9 documented output fields: url, title, description, ogTitle, ogImage, ogSiteName, canonicalUrl, faviconUrl and hasOpenGraph. Each field declares its type, a description of what it holds, and an example value.
- What input does URL Metadata & Open Graph Extractor — Link Previews require?
- urls is required. A further 3 inputs are optional. The full input schema, with types and defaults, is below.
- Does URL Metadata & Open Graph Extractor — Link Previews need an API key or login?
- No. None of its inputs is a credential, and it reads only public data. Nothing to sign up for before the first run.
- How do I run URL Metadata & Open Graph Extractor — Link Previews?
- It runs on Apify. Start it from its listing with the inputs above, or call the Apify API with the Actor's ID. Results land in a dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read through the Apify API into your own pipeline.