[HN Gopher] Show HN: Link Preview (Unfurl/Expand) API
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       Show HN: Link Preview (Unfurl/Expand) API
        
       Author : dyoder
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2021-02-17 19:10 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.dashkite.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.dashkite.com)
        
       | dyoder wrote:
       | Hi, one of the authors here. We originally built this link
       | preview API for our own apps. (A link preview shows a summary of
       | the page referenced by a URL. Given a link, our API will return
       | the corresponding title, author, publisher, and so on.) Since it
       | worked well for us, we figured why not make it available to
       | everyone?
       | 
       | The reason we decided to build our own (there are several out
       | there) is that we wanted to pull all the data a publisher wanted
       | to share, including all the media, and we wanted it to be fast.
       | Specially, we wanted to edge cache that data as aggressively as
       | possible given the source.
       | 
       | Hopefully, others find this useful. Let us know if there are
       | features you'd like to see. We also launched this on RapidAPI, so
       | let us know if you've had good or bad experience using that
       | platform. This is our first API launch, so we're still figuring
       | out the best way to do this. Thank you!
        
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