Meta Tag Extractor, See Every Tag on Any Page
Pull every meta tag from a page's head section into one readable list.
How it works
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Enter a URL
Paste the full URL of any publicly accessible page, your own or a competitor's.
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Click Extract Tags
The page's actual HTML is fetched and every meta tag in its head section is pulled out.
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Check the title tag and canonical first
Shown separately at the top, with the title's exact character count for a quick truncation check.
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Review each tag group
SEO meta tags, Open Graph, Twitter Card, and any other tags found are organized into separate, clearly labeled sections.
About the Meta Tag Extractor, See Every Tag on Any Page
Manually opening a page's raw HTML source and scrolling through the head section to check its meta tags is slow, and doing it repeatedly to compare your own page against a competitor's is slower still. This tool fetches a page's actual HTML and extracts every meta tag from its head section, title, description, canonical, robots directives, Open Graph, Twitter Card, and anything else present, organized into one clean, readable, categorized list.
Why the title tag and canonical get their own spotlight
Two elements matter enough for basic SEO health that they get pulled out and shown first, separately from the general meta tag groups. The title tag, technically not a meta tag itself but sitting in the same head section, is shown with its exact character count, useful for quickly judging whether it's likely to display fully in search results or get truncated. The canonical URL, when present, is shown clearly on its own, since a missing or incorrect canonical is one of the more consequential technical SEO issues a page can have, and one that's easy to miss when scanning raw HTML by eye.
How tags are sorted into groups
Standard SEO meta tags, description, robots, keywords, viewport, author, theme-color, are grouped together first. Open Graph tags, every property beginning with og:, used by Facebook, LinkedIn, and most other platforms that generate link preview cards, get their own group. Twitter Card tags, every property beginning with twitter:, used specifically by X's card rendering, get a third group. Anything else found on the page that doesn't fit these categories, custom meta tags, less common directives, falls into a final other tags group, so nothing found on the page goes unlisted, even if it doesn't fit a well known category.
Auditing your own site, or checking a competitor's
This works identically well on your own pages or a competitor's publicly accessible page, in both cases it's simply reading the same HTML any browser or search engine crawler would see. Comparing your title tag length, description, and Open Graph setup against a well-ranking competitor's equivalent page is a common, legitimate competitive research step, no different from viewing their page source manually, just faster and organized into a readable comparison rather than raw markup.
What this catches that a quick visual scan often misses
A missing Open Graph image tag, a robots meta tag accidentally left as noindex from a staging environment, or a description tag that's empty or duplicated from another page are all easy to miss scrolling through raw HTML, especially on a page with a long, dense head section full of analytics scripts and other unrelated tags mixed in. Extracting and organizing just the meta tags specifically strips away that noise, making genuine gaps or mistakes far easier to spot at a glance.
Runs through a small server-side proxy
Since reading another domain's HTML isn't possible directly from a browser tab, the page is fetched through a small server-side proxy built for exactly this. Nothing about the page checked is logged or stored beyond completing the extraction. If you want to preview exactly how the extracted Open Graph tags will render as an actual share card, our Open Graph Tags Generator shows a live preview, and our SERP Snippet Preview does the same for how the title and description will look in search results, both part of the same Technical SEO Tools collection this tool belongs to.
Frequently asked questions
Does this show Open Graph and Twitter card tags too?
Yes, all meta tags found in the head section are listed, including standard SEO tags, Open Graph, and Twitter card tags, organized into separate groups.
Can I extract meta tags from a competitor's page?
Yes, this works on any publicly accessible URL, useful for quick competitive checks alongside auditing your own pages.
Why is the title tag shown separately with a character count?
Title length directly affects whether it displays fully in search results or gets truncated, so it's surfaced prominently with an exact count rather than buried in a general tag list.
What happens if a page has no canonical tag?
The canonical section simply doesn't appear, rather than showing an empty or misleading placeholder, so its absence is easy to notice at a glance.
Where do uncommon or custom meta tags show up?
Any tag that isn't a standard SEO tag, Open Graph, or Twitter Card property falls into an other tags group, so nothing found on the page goes unlisted.
Does this show meta tags that are only added by JavaScript after the page loads?
No, this extracts tags present in the page's initial HTML response, the same content a search engine crawler would see on first fetch. Tags injected dynamically after the page loads in a browser aren't included.
Is the checked page's content logged or stored anywhere?
No, the page is only fetched to complete the extraction, nothing is logged or stored afterward.
Can I check a page that isn't live on the public internet yet?
No, this requires the page to be publicly accessible, since it performs a real fetch through the proxy, the same way a search engine crawler would need public access to see the page.