JsonLink
Powerful, free and super fast link scraper API for developers
Founded
2024
Starting Price
$0
Category
Developer Tools
Last updated June 13, 2026
About JsonLink
JsonLink is a developer API that extracts structured metadata from any URL, returning the title, description, image, favicon and site name as clean JSON. It powers rich link previews, URL unfurling and Open Graph extraction the same way Twitter, Facebook and WordPress see the web, and also offers endpoints for screenshots, image extraction and link harvesting.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Dead-simple GET API with no SDK or complex setup required
- Returns clean, structured JSON for titles, descriptions, images and favicons
- Covers multiple use cases: metadata, screenshots, image and link extraction
- Generous free tier to prototype link-preview features
- Transparent flat monthly pricing with self-serve activation via Stripe
Cons
Key Features
Metadata Extract API
Returns title, description, images, favicon, sitename, domain and the original URL as JSON from a single GET request.
Open Graph & Twitter Cards
Parses Open Graph tags, Twitter Card data, favicons and structured data to build accurate link previews.
Screenshots API
Captures visual screenshots of any web page with customizable viewport, format and quality settings.
Image Extraction
Pulls all available images from a page including dimensions, format, file size and MIME type.
Link Extraction
Harvests all hyperlinks on a page with URL, anchor text, title attribute and rel relationship attributes.
Simple GET requests
Authenticate with an api_key query parameter and call the endpoint with a target URL—no SDK required.
Responsive embed codes
Generates responsive embed codes for rich media publishers to display previews on web and mobile.
Pricing
Free
$0/month
- API access
- 10 requests/minute
- 150 requests/month
- 20 screenshots/month
- 20 images/month
Best For
Rich link previews
Render link cards with image, title and description inside chat apps, CMS editors and social feeds.
URL unfurling
Expand pasted URLs into preview cards the way Slack, Twitter and Facebook do.
Content curation
Auto-populate metadata when users bookmark or save links in a curation or read-later app.
Page screenshots
Generate on-demand screenshots of web pages for dashboards, monitoring or thumbnails.
