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Fetch Rich Metadata from URLs

Pull the title, description, thumbnail image, and Open Graph data from any public URL.

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When you share a link in a messaging app, the preview that appears — the title, description, and thumbnail image — comes from Open Graph metadata embedded in the page. Accessing that data programmatically without visiting the page, parsing the HTML, and extracting the right tags is a non-trivial amount of work for a task that should be simple.

The preview_url skill fetches a URL and returns its structured metadata: page title, meta description, Open Graph title and description, thumbnail image URL, site name, and content type. You get the full preview data in one call.

Developers building link-sharing features, content teams curating external resources, and researchers building reference databases all use this to pull clean metadata from URLs without writing a custom scraper for every site format.

Agent Guides

Claude

  1. Connect ToolRouter to Claude: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Ask: "Get the link preview metadata for: [paste URL]"
  3. Claude returns the title, description, image URL, and Open Graph data
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ChatGPT

  1. Add ToolRouter to ChatGPT using the MCP JSON configuration
  2. Ask: "Get the link preview data for this URL: [url]"
  3. ChatGPT returns the structured metadata
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Copilot

  1. Add ToolRouter to your Copilot MCP configuration
  2. In Copilot Chat: "Fetch the metadata for this URL: [url]"
  3. Copilot returns the title, description, and image URL
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OpenClaw

  1. Connect ToolRouter to OpenClaw: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Provide a list of URLs: "Fetch link preview metadata for each of these"
  3. OpenClaw retrieves metadata for every URL
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