MetaScrape vs OpenGraph.io
OpenGraph.io focuses on Open Graph tags. MetaScrape extracts the full picture — OG tags, Twitter Cards, favicons, canonical URLs, language detection, and JSON-LD structured data. Here is a direct, honest comparison.
| Feature | MetaScrape | OpenGraph.io |
|---|---|---|
| OG tags (title, description, image, type) | Yes | Yes |
| Twitter Card tags | Yes | No |
| Favicon extraction | Yes | No |
| Canonical URL | Yes | No |
| Language detection | Yes | No |
| JSON-LD structured data | Yes | No |
| Page title (non-OG fallback) | Yes | Yes |
| Node.js + Python SDKs | Yes | No official SDKs |
| Available on RapidAPI | Yes | Yes |
| Free tier | 100 req/mo | 100 req/mo |
| Starter paid plan | $9/mo (1K req) | $12/mo (1K req) |
| Mid-tier plan | $29/mo (10K req) | $29/mo (10K req) |
| High-volume plan | $79/mo (100K req) | Enterprise (custom) |
Pricing comparison
- Free $0 — 100 req/mo
- Hobby $9/mo — 1,000 req
- Growth $29/mo — 10,000 req
- Business $79/mo — 100,000 req
- Free $0 — 100 req/mo
- Starter $12/mo — 1,000 req
- Business $29/mo — 10,000 req
- Enterprise Custom pricing
Pricing verified February 2026. Check vendor sites for current rates.
Why choose MetaScrape
OpenGraph.io focuses on Open Graph tags. But modern link previews need more: Twitter Cards for correct rendering on X/Twitter, favicons for the site icon in your card UI, canonical URLs for deduplication, language codes for internationalized apps, and JSON-LD for structured data enrichment. MetaScrape returns all of it in one call.
MetaScrape's Hobby plan is $9/mo for 1,000 requests — that is 33% cheaper than OpenGraph.io's Starter tier at $12/mo for the same volume. You get more metadata fields for less money. At 10K requests both products are $29/mo, but MetaScrape includes Twitter Cards, favicons, language, canonical URLs, and JSON-LD that OpenGraph.io does not return.
MetaScrape ships official Node.js and Python SDKs — zero dependencies, full API coverage. Both are published on npm and PyPI. OpenGraph.io offers a raw REST API with no official client libraries, so you write the wrapper yourself. With MetaScrape, you are extracting metadata in under five lines of code from day one.
More data, same one call
Here is the full metadata response MetaScrape returns — fields that OpenGraph.io does not include are marked. This is everything you need to render a complete, production-quality link preview card.
{
"data": {
"url": "https://github.com",
"domain": "github.com",
"title": "GitHub: Let's build from here",
"description": "100M+ developers...",
"canonical_url": "https://github.com", // ✓
"favicon": "https://github.com/...", // ✓
"language": "en", // ✓
"og": {
"title": "...", "image": "...",
"type": "website", "site_name": "GitHub"
},
"twitter": { // ✓
"card": "summary_large_image",
"site": "@github"
},
"structured_data": [...] // ✓
}
}const res = await fetch(
'https://api.shanecode.org/v1/extract' +
'?url=https://github.com',
{ headers: { 'X-API-Key': 'msk_your_key' } }
);
const { data } = await res.json();
// Or use the SDK:
import { MetaScrape } from '@shanecode/metascrape';
const ms = new MetaScrape('msk_your_key');
const meta = await ms.extract('https://github.com');When OpenGraph.io might work for you
OpenGraph.io is a straightforward, focused API and has been around for years. It may be sufficient for your use case in these scenarios:
- → You only need og:title, og:description, and og:image — nothing else
- → You have no need for Twitter Card data, favicons, or language detection
- → You are already integrated and switching APIs is more expensive than the feature gap
If you are starting a new integration or hitting the limits of what OpenGraph.io returns, MetaScrape gives you the complete metadata picture at the same or lower price point.
The bottom line
OpenGraph.io does one job — extract Open Graph tags — and it does it reliably. But if your app needs Twitter Cards to render correctly on X, a favicon for the site icon in your link preview UI, canonical URLs for deduplication, or JSON-LD for structured data enrichment, you are making multiple API calls or writing fallback scraping logic to fill the gaps. MetaScrape returns all of that metadata in a single call, with official SDKs and a lower entry price. Free tier, no credit card, API key in 30 seconds.
Start free — no credit card required
Free tier: 100 requests/month. Hobby plan from $9/mo.