Meta Tags API

About this Cloud Hub Solution:

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What are Meta Tags?

Meta tags are hidden tags that provide a summary of a web page to search engines. They are invisible on the web page itself but can be read by search engines and web crawlers.

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Importance of Meta Tags for SEO

The SEO community agrees that the title tag is the most important meta tag for ranking. A good title should help with keyword ranking and entice users to click on it. While other meta tags are not as crucial for SEO rankings, they still play a role in providing information to search engines and web browsers.

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Meta Tags API

The Meta Tags API scrapes the provided URL and parses the response text to detect all available meta tags. The API response includes:

• Title tag value: The title of the web page.
• OpenGraph: A protocol for sharing content on social media platforms.
• Meta Tags: A list of meta tags found on the web page.
• Favicon Image URL: The URL of the favicon image.
• Canonical URL: The canonical URL of the web page.
• IP Address: The IP address of the remote site.
• HTML size: The size of the remote document in bytes.
• Fetch duration: The time it took to fetch the page in milliseconds.
• Number of Scripts: The number of JavaScript documents linked on the page.
• Number of Stylesheets: The number of CSS documents linked on the page.

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Rotating Proxy Support

The Meta Tags API offers rotating proxy support, which allows you to use thousands of different IP addresses to route your requests through. This feature helps overcome IP fingerprinting and rate-limit problems for web scraping. To use rotating proxies, simply set the "proxy" parameter to true in your API request.

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Benefits of the Meta Tags API

The Meta Tags API provides a convenient way to extract meta tags and other information from web pages. With its rotating proxy support, you can scrape web pages without worrying about IP blocks or rate limits. This makes it an ideal tool for SEO audits, web scraping, and data extraction tasks.

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Sample code

Following is a sample cURL call for parsing the meta tags of apilayer.com web site.

curl --location --request \GET 'https://api.apilayer.com/meta_tags?url=apilayer.com&proxy=true' \--header 'apikey: YOUR API KEY'

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And the result of this call is below:

{
  "meta_tags": [
    {
      "charset": "utf-8"
    },
    {
      "name": "viewport",
      "content": "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no"
    },
    {
      "name": "description",
      "content": "Highly curated API marketplace with a focus on reliability and scalability. Allows software developers building the next big thing much easier and faster."
    },
    {
      "name": "twitter:card",
      "content": "summary"
    },
    {
      "name": "twitter:site",
      "content": "@apilayer"
    },
    {
      "name": "twitter:creator",
      "content": "@apilayer"
    },
    {
      "property": "og:title",
      "content": "APILayer | Hassle free API marketplace"
    },
    {
      "property": "og:description",
      "content": "API marketplace and ready to run app backends for your mobile app and website."
    },
    {
      "property": "og:image",
      "content": "https://assets.apilayer.com/logo/square_large_bg.png"
    }
  ],
  "title": "APILayer - Hassle free API marketplace",
  "favicon": "https://assets.apilayer.com/favicon.ico",
  "canonical": "https://apilayer.com",
  "host": {
    "ip_address": "104.26.10.107",
    "domain": "apilayer.com",
    "scheme": "http"
  },
  "stats": {
    "bytes": 47323,
    "fetch_duration": 2530.836,
    "number_of_scripts": 31,
    "number_of_stylesheets": 5
  }
}