# jaimeiniesta/metainspector

Ruby gem for web scraping purposes. It scrapes a given URL, and returns you its title, meta description, meta keywords, links, images...

Repository: https://github.com/jaimeiniesta/metainspector
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/metainspector
Homepage: https://github.com/metainspector/metainspector
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-05-14T21:21:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 69/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 82, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6643, "days_push": 111, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1049, forks 165 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:22.596686+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, parser, http-client
- domain: web-development, crawlers, developer-tools
- platform: ruby, cli
- tags: meta-tags, html-parsing, seo, ruby-gem, link-extraction

## Member repositories
- jaimeiniesta/metainspector (main) score 69

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:22.596686+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:00:29.746144+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jaimeiniesta/metainspector (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:22.596686+00:00, sha 4a3546be595b)
  - homepage: https://github.com/metainspector/metainspector (fetched 2026-08-29T13:01:49.025861+00:00, sha 0fd8cba6a649)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.