Meta Data API

This API scrapes, parses, and retrieves META tags and other useful information from any URL.

Features

• Returns canonical URL, favicon, host info, meta tags, page title, and stats (bytes, fetch duration, number of scripts/stylesheets)
• CORS enabled
• Secure headers with Helmet

Usage

1. Install dependencies

npm install

2. Start the server

npm start

3. Make a request

Send a POST request to /scrape with a JSON body:

{
  "url": "https://apilayer.com"
}

Example response

{
  "canonical": "https://apilayer.com",
  "favicon": "https://cache.apilayer.com/assets/favicon.ico",
  "host": {
    "domain": "apilayer.com",
    "ip_address": "104.26.10.107",
    "scheme": "http"
  },
  "meta_tags": [
    { "charset": "utf-8" },
    { "content": "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no", "name": "viewport" },
    { "content": "Highly curated API marketplace...", "name": "description" }
    // ...
  ],
  "stats": {
    "bytes": 47323,
    "fetch_duration": 2530.836,
    "number_of_scripts": 31,
    "number_of_stylesheets": 5
  },
  "title": "APILayer - Hassle free API marketplace"
}

Notes

• The API will attempt to resolve the IP address of the host.
• Fetch duration is in milliseconds.
• If a field is missing, it will be null or omitted.