Who operates this site
OG Scope is a set of free tools for reading the metadata public pages publish for link previews and search results. It is maintained by Abid Ali. There is no account and no sign-in. The site is not affiliated with Meta, LinkedIn, X, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, or Telegram.
What the tools do
The Open Graph checker, meta tag checker, SERP preview, and redirect checker take a public URL. The server requests that page, reads the response, and sends your browser the parsed result, such as the tags, estimated cards, or each redirect hop. The raw HTML of the target page stays on the server.
The XML sitemap generator crawls the site you enter. The server requests its robots.txt, its sitemap files, and each page, a few at a time, as your browser asks for them. The list of pages and the sitemap files are built in your browser tab and are not stored on the server.
The XML sitemap validator takes a sitemap address, or a bare domain. The server requests that file. A gzip file is uncompressed before it is read. It also requests robots.txt for the site. A bare domain is looked up there first, then at /sitemap.xml if no sitemap is listed. The file is checked on the server and the result is sent back to the browser. The downloaded file and the result are not stored. Each check fetches the file again. A sitemap index is one file: the sitemaps it lists are not downloaded until that address is submitted on its own. Hosting logs, described below, are separate from this.
The OG image generator and the OG image size tool work in the browser. An image you open in them is not uploaded to the server. The generator downloads its fonts from this site.
The URL you submit
The URL is the information you give the tool. It is used to fetch that page and return the check. The server refuses localhost, private network addresses, and link-local addresses. It checks each redirect before following it.
A successful Open Graph or meta tag check can be kept for about ten minutes so the same URL is not downloaded again immediately. Redirect checks, sitemap crawls, sitemap validations, and failures are not kept. That copy includes the URL and the parsed metadata. It is not a database and it is not a search history. After about ten minutes the copy is gone.
Rate limiting
The server uses the IP address of the request to limit how many checks one client can run in a minute. Those counts stay for that short window. They are not saved as a profile and they are not sold.
Theme preference
If you switch between light and dark, the choice is stored in your browser under the key theme. That value stays on your device.
Hosting logs
The company that hosts this website may keep ordinary server logs, such as an IP address, the browser type, and the address of the page that was requested. Those logs are part of running and protecting the site. They are handled by the host under its own terms.
Advertising and analytics
This site uses Google AdSense, publisher ID ca-pub-6695195287407019. Google and its partners may show ads on these pages. They may store cookies to serve and measure those ads, including ads based on visits to this site and other sites. You can control personalized ads in Google Ads Settings. Google describes that advertising data in how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
It uses Google Analytics 4 to measure how the site is used. The tag is Google's gtag.js, measurement ID G-WBVYB30DN2. After a page loads, the browser sends Google the page address, a general location derived from the IP address, the browser and device type, and the interactions enabled for this stream. Those include page views, scrolling, and outbound clicks.
Google may store cookies in the browser, including cookies whose names start with _ga, so a later visit can be recognized as the same browser. Those cookies are not an account on this site. Google describes its handling of that data in its privacy policy. Blocking or deleting the cookies in the browser leaves the preview tool working.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page will change with it. The new text applies from that date.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent to abid.saeed.ali92@gmail.com or through the contact form. The form sends your email address, an optional page URL, and your message to Formspree, which delivers them to that address. This site does not keep a copy of the message. Formspree describes its handling of submissions in its privacy policy. Running a preview does not ask for your email address.