# microlinkhq/metascraper

Scrape metadata from any URL using Open Graph, JSON-LD, HTML meta tags, and smart fallbacks.

Repository: https://github.com/microlinkhq/metascraper
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/metascraper
Homepage: https://metascraper.js.org
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: metadata, article, cheerio, extract, html, json-ld, metascraper, og, open-graph, preview, scraper, unfurl
Last push: 2026-08-23T19:22:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3753, "days_push": 10, "days_rel": 14, "gap_med": 3.0, "n_releases_24m": 77}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2731, forks 184 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:16.093369+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, parser, nlp
- domain: web-development, crawlers, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: metadata-extraction, open-graph, -ld, link-unfurling, html-parsing, cheerio, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- microlinkhq/metascraper (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:16.093369+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 2026-08-30T02:14:40.241740+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/microlinkhq/metascraper (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:16.093369+00:00, sha b1df2b6ab183)
  - homepage: https://metascraper.js.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:57:38.781916+00:00, sha 78a8355c33bd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.