How to Use
The Page metadata reader brick takes no inputs. With this brick you can read metadata of any page being used by PixieBrix:
This grabs a variety of information about the website such as the base url without the specific page, the webpage description, title, and provider if available to be used by other bricks.
It allows you to choose a target tab(s), by default being the current tab.
Use cases:
- Grab URL from pages to use in later bricks
- Grab page images, title or description to manipulate further
- Grab hidden data layers and SEO meta tags from pages
Inputs
| Name | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| No inputs for this brick defined. | |||
Outputs
| Name | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
url |
string
|
A canonical URL for the page. | |
icon |
string
|
A URL which contains an icon for the page. | |
type |
string
|
The type of content as defined by opengraph (https://ogp.me/#types) | |
image |
string
|
A URL which contains a preview image for the page. | |
title |
string
|
A user displayable title for the page. | |
keywords |
string
|
The meta keywords for the page. | |
description |
string
|
A user displayable description for the page. |