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      <title>I built an API to extract SEO metadata, images, JS &amp; CSS from any website or HTML — use it for audits, automation, or analysis 🔍</title>
      <dc:creator>Tamer</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 13:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hey devs 👋&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As someone building tools for digital marketers and devs, I was constantly hacking together different libraries to extract SEO and asset data from web pages.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Most tools were either overkill, slow, or blocked by CORS. So I built a simple solution and just launched it on RapidAPI:&lt;br&gt;
⚙️ SmartWeb Web Scraper API&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A fast, server-side API to extract SEO info and page assets (JS, CSS, images) from any website URL or raw HTML.&lt;br&gt;
🔍 What It Can Do:&lt;br&gt;
✅ SEO Metadata Extraction&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight plaintext"&gt;&lt;code&gt;Title, description, canonical URL

Robots tag, language, charset

Open Graph &amp;amp; Twitter cards

Viewport, structured data, H1/H2s

Favicon details
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;🖼️ Asset Extraction (great for optimization tools)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight plaintext"&gt;&lt;code&gt;JS links (inline + external)

CSS links (including stylesheets)

Image links (with alt text, formats)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;🧪 Two Ways to Use It:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;From a Webpage URL&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;p&gt;httpCopyEditGET /SmartWeb/Page-Seo-data?siteurl=&lt;a href="https://example.com" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://example.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
GET /SmartWeb/Page-img-links?siteurl=&lt;a href="https://example.com" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://example.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
GET /SmartWeb/Page-css-links?siteurl=&lt;a href="https://example.com" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://example.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
GET /SmartWeb/Page-js-links?siteurl=&lt;a href="https://example.com" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://example.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;From Raw HTML&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;p&gt;httpCopyEditPOST /SmartWeb/html-Seo-data&lt;br&gt;
POST /SmartWeb/html-img-links&lt;br&gt;
POST /SmartWeb/html-css-links&lt;br&gt;
POST /SmartWeb/html-js-links&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🛠️ Use Cases&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight plaintext"&gt;&lt;code&gt;SEO auditing dashboards

Blog/CMS publishing validators

Static site SEO testing

Competitor metadata analysis

Image/CSS/JS optimization tools

Browserless crawlers &amp;amp; scrapers
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🔓 Available on RapidAPI (free tier included)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you’re building anything related to SEO, devtools, automation, or site audits, I’d love for you to give it a try. It’s super fast and easy to use.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;📎 Try the SmartWeb API on RapidAPI&lt;br&gt;
(No signup required to preview the endpoints)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Would love to hear:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight plaintext"&gt;&lt;code&gt;What you'd build with this

What SEO fields or data you want next

Any dev pain points in scraping you’re facing
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thanks for reading and happy building!&lt;br&gt;
— I’ll be in the comments if you want to brainstorm or give feedback.Hey devs 👋&lt;br&gt;
As someone building tools for digital marketers and devs, I was constantly hacking together different libraries to extract SEO and asset data from web pages.&lt;br&gt;
Most tools were either overkill, slow, or blocked by CORS. So I built a simple solution and just launched it on RapidAPI:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;⚙️ SmartWeb Web Scraper API&lt;br&gt;
A fast, server-side API to extract SEO info and page assets (JS, CSS, images) from any website URL or raw HTML.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🔍 What It Can Do:&lt;br&gt;
✅ SEO Metadata Extraction&lt;br&gt;
Title, description, canonical URL&lt;br&gt;
Robots tag, language, charset&lt;br&gt;
Open Graph &amp;amp; Twitter cards&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Viewport, structured data, H1/H2s&lt;br&gt;
Favicon details&lt;br&gt;
🖼️ Asset Extraction (great for optimization tools)&lt;br&gt;
JS links (inline + external)&lt;br&gt;
CSS links (including stylesheets)&lt;br&gt;
Image links (with alt text, formats)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🛠️ Use Cases&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;SEO auditing dashboards&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Blog/CMS publishing validators&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Static site SEO testing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Competitor metadata analysis&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Image/CSS/JS optimization tools&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Browserless crawlers &amp;amp; scrapers&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🔓 Available on RapidAPI (free tier included)&lt;br&gt;
If you’re building anything related to SEO, devtools, automation, or site audits, I’d love for you to give it a try. It’s super fast and easy to use.&lt;br&gt;
📎 Try the SmartWeb API on RapidAPI&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Would love to hear:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What you'd build with this&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What SEO fields or data you want next&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Any dev pain points in scraping you’re facing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thanks for reading and happy building!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;— I’ll be in the comments if you want to brainstorm or give feedback.&lt;/p&gt;

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