Show HN: Link Preview (Unfurl/Expand) API(dashkite.com)
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Show HN: Link Preview (Unfurl/Expand) API
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> After that, pricing starts at $25 per month for up to 15,000 requests.
This is very expensive for any decent usage. I have used tools like metascraper for this purpose and it worked pretty well. Setup just requires throwing a tiny nodejs app on a raspberry pi or $5 server and that can handle tons of requests.
https://github.com/microlinkhq/metascraper
This is very expensive for any decent usage. I have used tools like metascraper for this purpose and it worked pretty well. Setup just requires throwing a tiny nodejs app on a raspberry pi or $5 server and that can handle tons of requests.
https://github.com/microlinkhq/metascraper
I’m an iframely customer, how does this compare?
I love the idea.
One suggestion for the marketing site, it'd be really cool to be able to input a url and test out the service directly/conveniently
One suggestion for the marketing site, it'd be really cool to be able to input a url and test out the service directly/conveniently
That's a really great suggestion and I feel a bit silly for not having thought of it. (FWIW, there is a test form on the RapidAPI site, but it's more complicated to try and not as fun.) We'll add that. Thank you!
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!