meta-fetcher

A lightweight, zero-dependency npm package that fetches basic Open Graph metadata from any URL.

Install

npm install meta-fetcher

Usage

import { fetchMeta } from 'meta-fetcher';

const meta = await fetchMeta('https://github.com');
console.log(meta);
// {
//   title: 'GitHub: Let's build from here',
//   description: 'GitHub is where over 100 million developers shape the future of software...',
//   image: 'https://github.githubassets.com/assets/github-logo-...',
//   favicon: 'https://github.com/favicon.ico'
// }

What you get

| Field | Description | |---------------|------------------------------------------| | title | og:title or <title> fallback | | description | og:description | | image | og:image | | favicon | Resolved favicon URL |

Limitations

This package is intentionally minimal:

• No Twitter Card tags (twitter:title, twitter:image, etc.)
• No JSON-LD structured data parsing
• No RSS/Atom feed discovery
• No batch URL processing
• No caching layer
• No SSRF protection (do not expose to untrusted user input in production)
• No timeout configuration

Need more?

For production use with full Open Graph, Twitter Card, JSON-LD, feed discovery, batch support, and SSRF-safe infrastructure, check out the LinkPreview API on RapidAPI.

License

MIT