APIVerve

Metadata Extractor API

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Build rich link previews without parsing HTML yourself.

Metadata Extractor extracts HTML metadata from any submitted URL, returning the page title, meta description, author, robots directives, and language. Paid tiers add Open Graph tags, JSON-LD schemas, and favicons.

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Request
POSTapi.apiverve.com/v1/metadataextractor
Body
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Example
{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "requestUrl": "https://apiverve.com",
    "url": "https://apiverve.com/",
    "canonical": "",
    "lang": "en",
    "charset": "utf-8",
    "title": "APIVerve — One key for 300+ production APIs",
    "image": "",
    "favicons": [
      {
        "rel": "icon",
        "href": "/images/favicon.ico",
        "sizes": "any"
      },
      {
        "rel": "icon",
        "type": "image/png",
        "href": "/images/favicon.png"
      },
      {
        "rel": "apple-touch-icon",
        "href": "/images/apple-touch-icon.png"
      }
    ],
    "author": "",
    "description": "Consistent schemas, predictable credit pricing, and an uptime SLA on every paid plan across 300+ production APIs. One key, one bill, zero glue code.",
    "keywords": "",
    "source": "",
    "price": "",
    "priceCurrency": "",
    "availability": "",
    "robots": "",
    "jsonld": [],
    "og:url": "https://apiverve.com",
    "og:locale": "en_US",
    "og:locale:alternate": "",
    "og:title": "APIVerve — One key for 300+ production APIs",
    "og:type": "website",
    "og:description": "Consistent schemas, predictable credit pricing, and an uptime SLA on every paid plan across 300+ production APIs. One key, one bill, zero glue code.",
    "og:determiner": "",
    "og:site_name": "APIVerve",
    "og:image": "https://apiverve.com/social-images/page-home.png",
    "og:image:secure_url": "",
    "og:image:type": "",
    "og:image:width": "1200",
    "og:image:height": "630",
    "twitter:title": "APIVerve — One key for 300+ production APIs",
    "twitter:description": "Consistent schemas, predictable credit pricing, and an uptime SLA on every paid plan across 300+ production APIs.",
    "twitter:image": "https://apiverve.com/social-images/page-home.png",
    "twitter:image:alt": "",
    "twitter:card": "summary_large_image",
    "twitter:site": "",
    "twitter:site:id": "",
    "twitter:url": "",
    "twitter:account_id": "",
    "twitter:creator": "",
    "twitter:creator:id": "",
    "twitter:player": "",
    "twitter:player:width": "",
    "twitter:player:height": "",
    "twitter:player:stream": "",
    "twitter:app:name:iphone": "",
    "twitter:app:id:iphone": "",
    "twitter:app:url:iphone": "",
    "twitter:app:name:ipad": "",
    "twitter:app:id:ipad": "",
    "twitter:app:url:ipad": "",
    "twitter:app:name:googleplay": "",
    "twitter:app:id:googleplay": "",
    "twitter:app:url:googleplay": "",
    "headings": [
      {
        "level": "h1",
        "text": "Every API your product needs, behind one key."
      },
      {
        "level": "h2",
        "text": "The boring parts of API integration, already solved."
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "One response envelope"
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "Flat credit pricing"
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "Backed by an uptime SLA"
      },
      {
        "level": "h2",
        "text": "Your first call takes two minutes."
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "Grab a key"
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "Call any endpoint"
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "Ship it"
      },
      {
        "level": "h2",
        "text": "Authenticate once. Point at anything."
      },
      {
        "level": "h2",
        "text": "Skip the integration work. Ship the feature."
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "User verification"
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "Commerce toolkit"
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "Data enrichment"
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "Docs & media"
      },
      {
        "level": "h2",
        "text": "Metrics from the last 24 hours."
      },
      {
        "level": "h2",
        "text": "Production APIs for the things you keep rebuilding."
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "Email Validator →"
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "IP Lookup →"
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "Weather →"
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "QR Code Generator →"
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "Currency Converter →"
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "Translator →"
      },
      {
        "level": "h2",
        "text": "450,000+ lookups, validations, and conversions a day, through one key."
      },
      {
        "level": "h2",
        "text": "Give your software a way to act on the world."
      },
      {
        "level": "h3",
        "text": "Scaling in production?"
      },
      {
        "level": "h4",
        "text": "Product"
      },
      {
        "level": "h4",
        "text": "Solutions"
      },
      {
        "level": "h4",
        "text": "Integrations"
      },
      {
        "level": "h4",
        "text": "Resources"
      },
      {
        "level": "h4",
        "text": "Compare"
      },
      {
        "level": "h4",
        "text": "SDKs"
      },
      {
        "level": "h4",
        "text": "Company"
      },
      {
        "level": "h4",
        "text": "Featured APIs"
      },
      {
        "level": "h4",
        "text": "More"
      },
      {
        "level": "h4",
        "text": "Legal"
      },
      {
        "level": "h4",
        "text": "Important disclaimer"
      }
    ],
    "imgTags": [
      {
        "src": "/images/favicon.png",
        "alt": "",
        "width": "26",
        "height": "26"
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand01.png",
        "alt": "Microsoft"
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand02.png",
        "alt": "DuckDuckGo"
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand03.png",
        "alt": "Topdanmark"
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand04.png",
        "alt": "University of Maryland"
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand05.png",
        "alt": "Postman"
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand06.png",
        "alt": "RapidAPI"
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand07.png",
        "alt": "Zapier"
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand08.svg",
        "alt": "Deloitte"
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand01.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand02.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand03.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand04.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand05.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand06.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand07.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand08.svg",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand01.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand02.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand03.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand04.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand05.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand06.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand07.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand08.svg",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand01.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand02.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand03.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand04.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
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        "alt": ""
      },
      {
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        "alt": ""
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      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand07.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand08.svg",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand01.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand02.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand03.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand04.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand05.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand06.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand07.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand08.svg",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand01.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand02.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand03.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand04.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand05.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand06.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand07.png",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/brands/brand08.svg",
        "alt": ""
      },
      {
        "src": "/images/favicon.png",
        "alt": "",
        "width": "24",
        "height": "24"
      }
    ],
    "responseBody": "",
    "viewport": "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1",
    "theme-color": "#ffffff",
    "application-name": "APIVerve",
    "og:image:alt": "APIVerve — One key for 300+ production APIs"
  }
}

About the Metadata Extractor API

Metadata Extractor works by parsing the HTML content of a web page to extract the metadata. It returns the meta title, meta description, and more in a structured format.

What people use it for

Social Link Previews
Chat applications fetch page title and meta description tags from shared links to display inline reading snippets in conversation feeds.
Bookmark Library Archiving
When archiving external resources, digital asset management platforms capture the page author, description, and keywords to catalog source references.
Search Crawl Auditing
Flag indexing barriers across client domains by evaluating robots tags, character encoding, and viewport settings extracted during scheduled crawls.
Link Redirect Verification
To detect outdated redirects, publishing platforms compare the original submitted URL against the resolved destination address and page title.

Ways to call it

One endpoint, many ways in — REST with JSON, XML, YAML and CSV, plus GraphQL and an MCP interface for AI agents.

JSON
Default REST response
XML
Markup format
YAML
Human-readable
CSV
Tabular export
Beta
GraphQL
Query language
New
MCP
For AI agents
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Other ways to use Metadata Extractor

Same data, same APIVerve account, same credit balance — one key works on all of them.

Give it to an AI agentConnect over MCP and your agent calls it as a native tool — Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT.on VerveKit Google Sheets or ExcelA =VERVE() formula fills a column — no script, no export, recalculates in place.on VerveSheets Ground an agent on itA cited, machine-checkable fact your model can't produce on its own.on VerveContext

Questions.

Common questions about the Metadata Extractor API.

Read the docs →
How far does the Starter plan go for webpage extractions?
Starter includes 200,000 credits, which covers 100,000 webpage extractions each month at 2 credits per call. That works out to about $0.30 per 1,000 calls or $0.0003 per call. The Free plan provides 100 calls per month for testing.
Are Open Graph tags, Twitter cards, and JSON-LD included on the Free plan?
No, social metadata and structured data require a paid plan. The Free plan returns basic HTML tags including the page title, description, keywords, author, viewport, and robots directives. Upgrading to Starter or higher unlocks Open Graph tags, Twitter cards, JSON-LD schema, images, favicons, and headings.
Is the metadata cached or fetched in real time?
Metadata Extractor parses pages in real time on every call. It fetches the live HTML directly from the target address to extract the current tags on every plan, and structured data on paid plans, as they exist right now.
What happens if a submitted URL redirects to another page?
The endpoint follows redirects and extracts metadata from the destination page. Your response contains both the original submitted URL under requestUrl and the final resolved address under url.
Can it extract product schema and pricing from e-commerce pages?
Yes, on any paid plan it extracts structured product price, currency code, and availability status when declared on the page. It also extracts complete JSON-LD schema blocks so you can read custom structured data.
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