jaimeiniesta/metainspector

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1049 stars · 165 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

MetaInspector is a Ruby gem for web scraping that fetches a given URL and exposes its title, meta description, keywords, links, images, charset, and response headers through a simple API. It can also parse provided HTML documents directly and integrates easily into Rails applications.

Use cases

• scrape title and meta tags from a url in ruby
• extract all links and images from a web page
• get a page's meta description and keywords for SEO analysis
• parse html from a string instead of fetching a url
• check a page's response status and headers
• build a link checker or site crawler in ruby

When to choose

• you're working in Ruby or Rails and need quick access to a page's metadata, links, and images
• you want a simple, well-established gem rather than a full scraping framework
• you need to inspect both fetched URLs and raw HTML documents

When to avoid

• you need JavaScript-rendered content, since it only parses the fetched HTML
• you need large-scale distributed crawling or headless browser automation
• you're not using Ruby

Facets

library · maturity active

web-scraping parser http-client web-development crawlers developer-tools ruby cli meta-tags html-parsing seo ruby-gem link-extraction

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