Metadata-Api

Extract Website Metadata with an API: Title, Description, OG Tags

Every website has metadata hidden in its HTML — titles, descriptions, Open Graph tags, favicons, Twitter cards, and more. Extracting this metadata is essential for building link previews, SEO analysis tools, competitive intelligence dashboards, and content aggregators. In this guide, we’ll show you how to use the ToolCenter Metadata API to extract structured metadata from any URL, with practical examples and real-world use cases. What Is Website Metadata? Website metadata is information embedded in a page’s HTML <head> section that describes the page’s content. It includes: ...

Build an SEO Audit Tool: Extract Meta Tags at Scale

Why Automate SEO Audits? SEO audits are tedious. Checking meta titles, descriptions, Open Graph tags, and structured data across hundreds of pages takes hours manually. An automated tool can scan your entire site in minutes and flag issues before they hurt your rankings. In this tutorial, we’ll build an SEO audit tool using the ToolCenter Metadata API to extract and analyze meta tags at scale. What the Metadata API Returns The ToolCenter Metadata API extracts comprehensive metadata from any URL: ...

Building Beautiful Link Previews with a Metadata API

When you paste a URL into Slack, Twitter, or iMessage, a rich preview appears showing the page title, description, and an image. These link previews feel like magic to users, but behind the scenes, someone had to fetch and parse the metadata from that URL. In this tutorial, you will learn how to build beautiful link previews for your own application using a metadata extraction API. We will cover Open Graph tags, Twitter Cards, fallback strategies, and production-ready code examples. ...