This webserver renders a link preview by scraping the submitted link.
Make a GET request to the server https://linkpreviewer.herokuapp.com/ passing link (shortened urls are ok, e.g. https://goo.gl/epMmfm) and format (optional) in the URL query. Format can be either json or html, html by default.
E.g. https://linkpreviewer.herokuapp.com/?link=https://goo.gl/epMmfm&format=json returns
{
"title": "The engineer’s guide to not making your app look awful",
"description": "A problem that a lot of independent app developers face is that they aren’t graphic designers. I work with an innovation team where I have…",
"image": "https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*snMthttokp8m2AWo9dLN7A.jpeg"
}Checkout a complete example here
If you want to use the pre-rendered HTML you should copy this css,
or add this row to your <head> tag:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://linkpreviewer.herokuapp.com/style.css">
You can remix this project on glitch
