Better Meta

A simple API to return the meta tags of any site in a digestable JSON format.

Leave the scraping, XPath, and regex to us.

Meta tags are the basis of SEO and the beginning of the 'data about data' on the World Wide Web. It's too bad they're just not very friendly for developers to use and consume. That's where the Better Meta API comes into play. Instead of working with messy, often incomplete and invalid HTML, you can use Better Meta to fetch only the information you want in a digestable format.

Read more about the inception and process of Better Meta.

Given no meta tags on a page, this is the default response you can expect:

Example response from medium.com

{
  "url": "http://medium.com",
  "title": "Medium - Read, write and share stories that matter",
  "meta": [
    {
      "Content-Type": "text/html; charset=utf-8"
    },
    {
      "viewport": "width=device-width, initial-scale=1"
    },
    {
      "title": "Medium - Read, write and share stories that matter"
    },
    {
      "referrer": "unsafe-url"
    },
    {
      "description": "Welcome to Medium, a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you. Every day, thousands of voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium."
    },
    {
      "theme-color": "#000000"
    },
    {
      "og:title": "Medium - Read, write and share stories that matter"
    },
    {
      "og:url": "https://medium.com/"
    },
    {
      "fb:app_id": "542599432471018"
    },
    {
      "og:description": "Welcome to Medium, a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you. Every day, thousands of voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium."
    },
    {
      "twitter:description": "Welcome to Medium, a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you. Every day, thousands of voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium."
    },
    {
      "twitter:site": "@Medium"
    },
    {
      "og:site_name": "Medium"
    },
    {
      "twitter:app:name:iphone": "Medium"
    },
    {
      "twitter:app:id:iphone": "828256236"
    },
    {
      "twitter:app:url:iphone": "medium://"
    },
    {
      "al:ios:app_name": "Medium"
    },
    {
      "al:ios:app_store_id": "828256236"
    },
    {
      "al:android:package": "com.medium.reader"
    },
    {
      "al:android:app_name": "Medium"
    },
    {
      "al:ios:url": "medium://"
    },
    {
      "al:android:url": "medium://"
    },
    {
      "al:web:url": "https://medium.com/"
    }
  ],
  "opengraph": [
    {
      "title": "Medium - Read, write and share stories that matter"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://medium.com/"
    },
    {
      "description": "Welcome to Medium, a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you. Every day, thousands of voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium."
    },
    {
      "site_name": "Medium"
    }
  ],
  "applinks": {
    "android": [
      {
        "package": "com.medium.reader"
      },
      {
        "app_name": "Medium"
      },
      {
        "url": "medium://"
      }
    ],
    "ios": [
      {
        "app_name": "Medium"
      },
      {
        "app_store_id": "828256236"
      },
      {
        "url": "medium://"
      }
    ],
    "web": [
      {
        "url": "https://medium.com/"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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Given no meta tags on a page, this is the default response you can expect:

Example response from medium.com