Build a link preview generator using the Apify Metadata Extractor API. Extract Open Graph, Twitter Cards, and SEO tags from any URL — with Python and curl examples.
How to Extract Metadata from Any URL in 5 Lines of Code
Every time you paste a link into Slack, Discord, or Twitter, the platform fetches that page's metadata — title, description, image, author — and renders a rich preview. That's Open Graph and Twitter Cards at work.
Here's how to do the same thing in your own app, using the Link Preview & Metadata Extractor on Apify.
What You Get
For any URL, the actor returns:
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