microlinkhq/metascraper
Scrape metadata from any URL using Open Graph, JSON-LD, HTML meta tags, and smart fallbacks. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 86
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 3.0
- age_days: 3753
- days_rel: 14
- days_push: 10
- n_releases_24m: 77
Adoption not part of the score
2731 stars · 184 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Metascraper is a Node.js library that extracts unified metadata from any URL by combining Open Graph, JSON-LD, Microdata, RDFa, Twitter Cards, and plain HTML meta tags with smart fallbacks. It uses a rule-based system that is easy to extend or override, aiming for high accuracy on online articles.
Use cases
- extract metadata from a url
- generate link previews for shared articles
- unfurl open graph data from web pages
- scrape article title, description, and image
- parse -ld and twitter card metadata
- build a link preview service
When to choose
- you need accurate, unified metadata from arbitrary web pages
- you want extensible rule-based extraction with fallbacks
- you are building link unfurling or preview features in Node.js
When to avoid
- you only need structured data from a single known API
- you need a full headless browser scraping solution by itself
- your project is not JavaScript/Node.js based
Facets
library · maturity active
web-scraping parser nlp web-development crawlers developer-tools metadata-extraction open-graph -ld link-unfurling html-parsing cheerio nodejs javascript
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/microlinkhq/metascraper · fetched 2026-08-28 · b1df2b6ab183
- homepage: https://metascraper.js.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 78a8355c33bd
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| microlinkhq/metascraper | main | 95 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="microlinkhq/metascraper")
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