# URL Metadata API for Open Graph

Extract Open Graph, Twitter Card, canonical, robots and image metadata from any public URL. Test the free API and copy examples in eight languages.

## URL Metadata API Quick Start

### Get metadata for any URL

Extract Open Graph, Twitter Cards, and meta tags

bash

```
curl "https://www.linkglimpse.com/api/metadata?url=https://example.com"
```

### Process multiple URLs

Process up to 100 URLs at once

bash

```
curl -X POST "https://www.linkglimpse.com/api/bulk" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls": ["https://example.com", "https://google.com"]}'
```

### GET /api/metadata — Inspect One URL

Extract metadata from any URL

`?url=https://example.com`

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### POST /api/bulk — Inspect Multiple URLs

Process multiple URLs at once

`{urls: ['url1', 'url2']}`

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## Code Examples

Select Programming Language

 JavaScript  Python  PHP  cURL  Ruby  Java  C#  Go 

### JavaScript (Fetch API)

```javascript
1const response = await fetch('https://www.linkglimpse.com/api/metadata?url=https://example.com');
2const data = await response.json();
3console.log(data);
```

💡 **Tip:** Click on any language above to see the code example in your preferred programming language. More languages coming soon!

## Open Graph API Response Format

JSON Response

```
{
  "title": "Page Title",
  "description": "Page description",
  "image": "https://example.com/image.jpg",
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "finalUrl": "https://example.com",
  "redirectChain": [{ "url": "https://example.com", "status": 200 }],
  "diagnostics": { "score": 92, "checks": [], "platforms": [] }
}
```

## Test the URL Metadata API

Test URL https://example.com 

 Test API 

### Free URL Metadata API

No API key required for reasonable interactive checks, prototypes, and release tooling.

### Fast Server-Side Metadata Fetching

Built on Next.js with server-side processing for optimal performance.

## Metadata API Error Handling

### 400 Bad Request

Missing required URL parameter

```
{"error": "URL parameter is required"}
```

### 422 or 504 Inspection Error

The target could not be safely fetched, parsed, or reached before timeout

```
{"error": "Failed to fetch URL metadata"}
```

## Related Metadata Tools

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### Bulk URL Metadata Checker

Process multiple URLs at once with our bulk processing tool.

](/bulk)

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Source: https://www.linkglimpse.com/api