Digger

Like dig, but for the web. Comprehensive website intelligence and metadata extraction for Raycast.

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Digger surfaces contextual information about any website without needing to open developer tools. Enter a URL and instantly see metadata, SEO signals, security info, DNS records, and more.

Features

Overview

• Page title, description, and language
• Character encoding detection
• Bot protection/WAF detection (Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, etc.)

Metadata & Semantics

• Open Graph tags for social sharing
• Twitter Card metadata
• JSON-LD structured data
• All meta tags at a glance

Discoverability

• Robots meta directives
• Canonical URL
• Sitemap detection and viewer
• robots.txt and llms.txt detection
• Content-Signal directives (from robots.txt)
• Payment Required (x402) detection — HTTP 402 status code and payment protocol headers
• Alternate/hreflang links

Resources & Assets

• Stylesheets and scripts
• Favicon, Apple Touch Icons, and Open Graph images
• Font detection (Google Fonts, Adobe Fonts, Bunny Fonts, Fontshare, Fonts.com, Font Awesome, custom)
• Theme color

HTTP Headers

• View all response headers
• Security headers audit (CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, etc.)
• Server identification
• HTTP status code
• HTTP 402 status code and payment protocol headers

DNS & Certificates

• A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS, and CNAME records
• TLS certificate chain information
• Certificate expiration dates

Wayback Machine

• Total snapshot count
• First and last capture dates
• Quick link to Internet Archive
• Integration with Wayback Machine extension

Data Feeds & API

• RSS, Atom, and JSON feed detection
• JSON-LD structured data viewer
• Host metadata discovery (RFC 6415 XRD/JRD)

Quick Input Options

Configure these in Raycast preferences (⌘ ,):

Option	Description
Auto Load from Clipboard	Automatically analyze URLs copied to clipboard
Auto Load from Selected Text	Analyze highlighted URLs in any app
Browser Extension Support	Analyze the current browser tab (requires Raycast Browser Extension)

Keyboard Shortcuts

macOS	Windows	Action
↑ / ↓	↑ / ↓	Navigate between sections
⌘ R	Ctrl R	Refresh data
⌘ ⇧ C	Ctrl ⇧ C	Copy URL
⌘ ⇧ J	Ctrl ⇧ J	Copy as JSON
⌘ ⇧ M	Ctrl ⇧ M	Copy as Markdown
⌘ O	Ctrl O	Open in browser
⌘ ⇧ W	Ctrl ⇧ W	Open in Wayback Machine
⌘ ⇧ G	Ctrl ⇧ G	View on Google

In the HTTP Headers list, ⌘ ⇧ C copies a header's value and ⌘ ⌥ C copies its name. Press ⌘ K on any section to see every action available there.

Examples

Digger is useful for:

• SEO audits — Check meta tags, canonical URLs, and structured data
• Competitive analysis — See what technologies competitors use
• Debugging — Inspect headers, redirects, and DNS records
• Security research — View certificate chains and security headers
• Content discovery — Find RSS feeds, sitemaps, and API endpoints

Privacy

Digger fetches websites directly from your machine. No data is sent to third-party servers except:

• Wayback Machine API — To retrieve archive history
• DNS lookups — Standard system DNS resolution

Debug Logging (off by default, in preferences) writes detailed diagnostics to the Raycast console. Those logs stay on your machine — nothing is uploaded — and credentials are masked automatically: values under names like token, key, or api_key, and Bearer tokens, are replaced with *** wherever they appear, including inside logged objects. Masking is pattern-based, so a sensitive value under an unremarkable parameter name — ?sid=, ?u=, a document id — can still appear in full.

Strict Redaction (also in preferences, off by default) closes that gap: every URL query string and fragment is masked to ?*** / #***, including values no pattern can recognize. It applies to lines written after you enable it — it cannot clean up console output that already exists — so turn it on first, reproduce the problem, then share the new lines. It is off by default because the query string is frequently the thing you are trying to diagnose.

Troubleshooting

Bot protection detected

Some websites use Cloudflare, Akamai, or similar services that may block or challenge automated requests. Digger will indicate when this happens.

Slow loading

• Large websites may take longer to analyze
• Wayback Machine API can be slow or rate-limited during peak times

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Submit a pull request

For bugs or feature requests, open an issue.

Credits

Built by Chris Messina and his robot helpers.

Uses:

• Cheerio for HTML parsing
• Wayback Machine API for archive data

License

MIT License — see LICENSE for details.

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