• pogue 5 months ago

    This is very cool!

    Would it be possible to add Bluesky link cards? It passes through this domain to extract the link card and can be very hit and miss on how they show up.

    https://cardyb.bsky.app/v1/extract?url=

    https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Abluesky-social%2Fatproto%...

    • giantrobot 5 months ago

      Blue sky's card domain is cute and clever. I miss clever "machine" (may be a HA cluster) names.

    • WD-42 5 months ago

      Here’s a version of the same idea but runs locally, so you can test without deploying. https://apps.gnome.org/SharePreview/

      OP, maybe next step is to try a local version?

      • pizzly 5 months ago

        This is very good. One thing though Telegram (at least the linux version) does not support transparency and makes the transparency red. However, Metacheck shows it as transparent. Having all this on one page is a massive time saver.

        • rahimnathwani 5 months ago

          You might get more users if you had shareable URLs, e.g.

          https://metacheck.appstate.co/site/news.ycombinator.com

          • talljohnson1234 4 months ago

            This is now possible chief, kindly try it out.

            • djhn 5 months ago

              That is such a great growth hack. As in, it’s both a useful feature AND a growth mechanism.

            • gigatree 5 months ago

              Probably want to have https appended automatically

              • talljohnson1234 5 months ago

                Would push a fix for this, apologies for the inconvenience.

                • talljohnson1234 4 months ago

                  a fix has been pushed for this, you can try it now.

                  I Deeply appreciate the feedback.

              • 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 5 months ago

                Ah I'd been using https://www.opengraph.xyz/

                • vivzkestrel 5 months ago

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                  • ulrischa 5 months ago

                    A good idea bit the visualisation ist wrong. I.e. the preview image will not be shown correctly

                    • 2big2fail_47 5 months ago

                      yeah it doesn’t work if you try it with https://youtube.com

                      i really like the idea though

                      • talljohnson1234 5 months ago

                        Would investigate why it wasn't working and push out a fix. thanks for trying it out.

                    • toteroni 5 months ago

                      This is awesome! I can’t believe this never occurred to me- my wife texts me links to her UX all the time to see how her changes look before the changes go to prod.

                      • kridsdale1 5 months ago

                        This doesn’t work for google maps links. It shows an icon and not the open graph images associated with a shared location.

                        Try this for instance: https://maps.app.goo.gl/jfj2vTjeZDTYSGMv9?g_st=com.google.ma...

                        • gazook89 5 months ago

                          I like it, and one additional thing (because isn’t there always): It’d be nice if this could be offline to use with local development.

                          • marcellus23 5 months ago

                            Should add support for Apple platforms (i.e. LPLinkView used in Notes/Messages/Mail etc.)

                            • talljohnson1234 4 months ago

                              Dully noted, will push this in the next update.

                            • imcritic 5 months ago

                              An error occurred in the Server Components render. The specific message is omitted in production builds to avoid leaking sensitive details. A digest property is included on this error instance which may provide additional details about the nature of the error.

                              • talljohnson1234 5 months ago

                                Will look into this issue and push a fix.

                                • imcritic 5 months ago

                                  Seems to work today. Nice service, thank you for it!

                              • eddiejaoude 4 months ago

                                Awesome! Love these previews tools! Super useful.

                                I am creating a free tool to preview the whole social post.

                                • uneekname 5 months ago

                                  Well done! I was recently looking around for something like this and didn't love the options. Bookmarked Metacheck :)

                                  • talljohnson1234 4 months ago

                                    Thanks, really means alot.

                                  • colesantiago 5 months ago

                                    Is this open source?

                                    I'm assuming it is since I see a GitHub logo on it, although it isn't working...

                                  • mediumsmart 5 months ago

                                    Very good. I use metatags.io at the moment. Local version would be great.

                                    • talljohnson1234 4 months ago

                                      Local version is coming soon.

                                    • vladkens 5 months ago

                                      Great idea! Quick and easy link previewing is super useful.

                                      • talljohnson1234 4 months ago

                                        Thanks for the feedback, really means alot.

                                      • flas9sd 5 months ago

                                        well done.. made me enable my static-sitegens opengraph plugin, add images, rewrite summaries, thanks!

                                        Mastodon preview? :)

                                        • talljohnson1234 4 months ago

                                          Coming soon hopefully, this Saturday.

                                          • talljohnson1234 4 months ago

                                            Done, this has been deployed.

                                          • brianfryer 5 months ago

                                            10/10; thank you so much!

                                            • talljohnson1234 4 months ago

                                              Thanks for the feedback.

                                            • vawogbemi 5 months ago

                                              can i see the code?

                                              • talljohnson1234 5 months ago

                                                Sure, will make it open source soon.

                                              • dbg31415 5 months ago

                                                Another good site for previewing metadata.

                                                https://socialsharepreview.com/

                                                • swagatkonchada 5 months ago

                                                  it doesn't recognise a url without the scheme? come on!

                                                  • talljohnson1234 5 months ago

                                                    Will push a fix for this, sorry about that.

                                                  • bryanhogan 5 months ago

                                                    Can anyone tell me why WhatsApp seems so random whether it display the social preview image and text or not? E.g. for my own website https://bryanhogan.com/ it shows up in the tool but not in actual chats.

                                                    • mh- 5 months ago

                                                      I've noticed this just as a casual user of WhatsApp, when pasting links into a conversation. I'm not sure what triggers it either, but I can say that it sometimes works for (e.g.) one tweet and not another.

                                                      • leonhard 5 months ago

                                                        I just tried your URL on my WhatsApp and it shows up exactly as in the preview from the tool. My experience is is has to be the full URL with https:// and it only shows the first link, and it sometimes gets confused when you have multiple links in a message and shuffle them around/delete some of them.

                                                        • esafak 5 months ago

                                                          Maybe it times out depending on the load.