'Yoast SEO (WordPress Plugin) - Get plugin generated data manually

I wanted to get the Yoast SEO generated data manually, see example code below

This data is being generated by Yoast and automatically add it inside the head tag.

<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v4.2.1 - https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ -->
<meta name="description" content="bla bla bla"/>
<meta name="robots" content="noodp"/>
<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.localhost.com/" />
<meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:title" content="bla bla bla" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://example.localhost.com/" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Example.com" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://example.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/example.png" />
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" />
<meta name="twitter:description" content="bla bla bla." />
<meta name="twitter:title" content="bla bla bla" />
<meta name="twitter:image" content="http://example.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/example.png" />
<script type='application/ld+json'>{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"WebSite","@id":"#website","url":"http:\/\/example.localhost.com\/","name":"Example","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"http:\/\/example.localhost.com\/?s={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}</script>
<!-- / Yoast SEO plugin. -->

I do not want to use wp_head(); because it also generates other scripts, styles and whatever plugin or code you have in your wordpress website.

I do not need all those codes. I only want to get the Yoast SEO generated code as shown above. any ideas how could i do that?

phpwordpressyoast


Solution 1:[1]

You can get the yoast meta in any page by get_post_meta(),

get the meta values by following,

echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), '_yoast_wpseo_metadesc', true); 
echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), '_yoast_wpseo_title', true);

Check the post_meta table to get all the values related to each page/post.

Solution 2:[2]

Use this below: 

do_action( 'wpseo_head' );

It will print all SEO header in your head. No need to add through post meta.

Solution 3:[3]

It's four years later, so things have changed here. The data can now be retrieved via API in a structured way: Example:

echo YoastSEO()->meta->for_current_page()->description;

See: https://developer.yoast.com/customization/apis/surfaces-api/

Also via REST a access is possible: https://developer.yoast.com/customization/apis/rest-api

May that sometimes helps. To get the meta at all (unstruktured), the both other ways are sufficient.

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Solution Source
Solution 1 Ahmed Ginani
Solution 2 Sandeep Kumar
Solution 3 mkours

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