# Minifetch Proxy URL Metadata Extractor

> Minifetch Proxy URL Metadata Extractor is a paid API for AI agents from minifetch.com, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).

Fetches a target URL through a rotating external proxy (bypassing bot-blocking) and extracts rich structured metadata including headers, favicons, title, description, canonical, meta tags, OG, JSON-LD, and more — without JavaScript rendering.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://minifetch.com/api/v1/x402/proxy/extract/url-metadata?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/minifetch-proxy-url-metadata-extractor-1d78ff92
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_e0NJHeXV9AkiuQIxyFM76

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability minifetch-proxy-url-metadata-extractor-1d78ff92
```

Example prompt: That competitor's product page at https://example.com/product keeps blocking my scraper — can you use a rotating proxy to pull all the metadata from it (title, description, OG tags, JSON-LD) and route the request through Germany?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when the target URL actively blocks standard HTTP crawlers or the Minifetch native proxy, and you need rich structured metadata (OG, JSON-LD, meta tags, etc.) without JavaScript rendering. Prefer this over the standard /extract/url-metadata endpoint when you encounter 403s, Cloudflare challenges, or bot-detection blocks. If the page requires JavaScript execution to render meaningful content, use /proxy/render instead. Choose this over generic proxy services because it returns pre-parsed, structured metadata rather than raw HTML.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error
- Invalid 2-letter country code returns HTTP 400
- Unknown field name in ?fields= returns HTTP 400
- Target page may still block even via proxy (no JS rendering — use /proxy/render for JS-heavy pages)
- Response is not cached so repeated calls incur cost each time
- Proxy provider may occasionally fail or timeout

## How this service works

For pages blocking native Minifetch that obeys robots.txt: fetch thru external rotating proxy & extract same rich structured metadata as /extract/url-metadata (headers, favicons, title, description, canonical, meta tags, OG, JSON-LD, etc). No JS render; use /proxy/render for that. Optional ?country= (2-letter code). Same ?fields= and ?omitEmpty= params. Not cached. Supports GET & POST

## Output

Returns a structured JSON object with rich page metadata including: final URL after redirects, page title, meta description, canonical URL, language, OG tags, Twitter card tags, JSON-LD blobs, favicon URLs, HTTP response headers, and proxy provenance info (provider, country, robots.txt status). Optionally includes full HTML body. Empty fields can be omitted.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "url"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The target URL from which to extract metadata."
      },
      "fields": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional. Selection narrows response to only fields you need: comma-separated atomic field names (e.g. title, description), named groups (network, meta, og, twitter), and/or meta:tag-name for specific meta tag. Returns all fields when omitted; an unknown field returns 400."
      },
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional. 2-letter ISO 3166-1 country code (ex: de, mx) to fetch from. Invalid code returns 400."
      },
      "omitEmpty": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "description": "Optional. If true, drops empty fields (empty string, [], {}) from response."
      },
      "includeResponseBody": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "description": "Optional. If true, includes full HTML response body as string in result."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "results": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "data": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
           "url": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Final URL after redirects"
           },
           "lang": {
            "type": "string"
           },
           "image": {
            "type": "string"
           },
           "proxy": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
             "render": {
              "type": "boolean",
              "description": "true if JS executed"
             },
             "country": {
              "type": [
               "string",
               "null"
              ]
             },
             "provider": {
              "type
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```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/minifetch-proxy-url-metadata-extractor-1d78ff92/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from minifetch.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/minifetch.com/llms.txt)