Free meta tag checker and link preview tool. See how any URL shows up on Google, Facebook and X before you share it.

What Metadata Scout checks

Metadata Scout is a free meta tag checker. Paste any public URL and it fetches the page once, reads the <head>, and shows what search engines and social networks will see.

• Google search preview: the title tag, meta description, canonical URL and favicon, laid out the way Google shows a result.
• Open Graph tags: og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url and og:site_name, rendered as a Facebook link preview. Relative image paths are resolved to absolute URLs. See the Open Graph checker.
• Twitter cards: twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description and twitter:image, with the same fallback to Open Graph that X applies. X retired its own Card Validator, so this is the Twitter card validator to use instead.
• Everything else in the head: language, charset, viewport, robots, theme color, every icon link, RSS and Atom feeds, hreflang alternates, and any JSON-LD structured data blocks.

Warnings call out the common misses: no description, no og:image, no canonical. Nothing is stored beyond a one-hour cache, and there is no sign-in.