Get Page Metadata

Read the address, title, description, language, icon and social-sharing tags of the page open in the active tab.

Try it

workflow · save-page-to-airtable.awf 3 steps

Save Page to Airtable Reading List: a workflow with 3 steps, starting with Right-click a page and ending with Add a record to Airtable.

1. 1 Right-click a page(Context Menu — open its doc page) Context Menu
2. 2 Read the page details(Get Page Metadata — open its doc page) Get Page Metadata
3. 3 Add a record to Airtable(AirTable — open its doc page) AirTable

Open in AWFlow Copy .awf

What it does

Get Page Metadata reads the information a page publishes about itself and returns it as one item. It has no settings.

• url: the address of the tab. title: the title shown on the browser tab.
• canonicalUrl: the page’s preferred address, when it declares one (empty otherwise).
• description: the page’s description, or its social-sharing description when it has none.
• lang: the page language, such as en or fr-FR (empty when not declared).
• favicon: the full address of the page icon. When the page declares none, it falls back to /favicon.ico on the same site.
• openGraph: the social-sharing tags (og: tags) without their prefix, for example title, image, type.
• twitter: the twitter: card tags, also without their prefix.

When to use it

• Save a bookmark or reading-list entry with a clean title, description and preview image.
• Know which page a workflow started from, to log it or to branch on the site.
• Check that a page has a description and sharing image before you publish it.

Inputs and settings

This node has no settings.

Outputs

• Output

Each output item has these fields:

Field	Type	What it holds
url	Text
title	Text
canonicalUrl	Text
description	Text
lang	Text
favicon	Text
openGraph	Key-value pairs	og:* meta tags
twitter	Key-value pairs	twitter:* meta tags

Shape of an output item

{
  "url": "…",
  "title": "…",
  "canonicalUrl": "…",
  "description": "…",
  "lang": "…",
  "favicon": "…",
  "openGraph": {},
  "twitter": {}
}

Read the sharing tags with expressions such as {{ $input.openGraph.image }} or {{ $input.twitter.card }}. A tag the page does not set is simply absent.

Dependencies and credentials

None. This node needs no connection and has no slots for other nodes.

Example workflow

1. Add a Context Menu trigger, so you can save any page from the right-click menu.
2. Add Get Page Metadata.
3. Add Edit Fields with three fields: title = {{ $input.title }}, link = {{ $input.url }} and image = {{ $input.openGraph.image }}.
4. Keep it with Data Store, Operation = Set, Key = {{ $input.link }}.

Common issues

• description, canonicalUrl or lang is empty. The page does not declare it. Fall back to another field, or read the text with Get All Text.
• openGraph is empty. The page has no social-sharing tags.
• The title is out of date on a single-page app. Some sites change the title only after content loads. Add Wait For Element before this node.
• The node fails outside the extension. This node runs in the browser extension; install it or run the workflow from the extension.

Recipes with this node

Save the page you're on to an Airtable reading list beginner · 5 min Needs a connection

Related nodes

• Get All Text: the page’s content.
• Screenshot Page: a picture of the page.
• Edit Fields: shape the metadata into the record you need.