Christopher Chen 2017 Feb 27,2017

NYTimes Link Preview for Mixmax

An upgrade to Mixmax's current link resolver for NYTimes and other websites that offer large Twitter summary cards.

I liked how Twitter created their summary cards as thought Mixmax could use that style of embedding. I reverse engineered Twitter's summary card and scraped websites for their Twitter summary card fields to use in Mixmax.

Running locally

1. Install using npm install
2. Run using npm start

To simulate locally how Mixmax calls the resolver URL (to return HTML that goes into the email), run:

curl -k https://localhost:9146/resolver?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/us/politics/trump-budget.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Or just navigate to the url:

https://localhost:9146/resolver?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/us/politics/trump-budget.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

#Using in Mixmax: This resolver currently gets overridden by the resolver for websites with Ograph tags. Otherwise you would use https://nytimes.com/ as your regex.

And https://localhost:9146/ as your server.