Context preview support for URLs

[kirushik]

Sometimes I post a github issue URL or a trello card link in the chat.

It would be a really great feature if Let's chat was able to replace long and non-descriptive URL with some context from the target page. (If this would happen on the clientside then even non-public sources can be covered.)

From my experience with HipChat, such snippets significantely increase the context-awareness of all the people in a discussion.

Of course, this can't magically work for all services out there, but GitHub seems to be a great trial one.

[hhaidar]

+1

By the way, right now you can linkify ticket numbers and such by adding a local.yml file in /extras/replacements/

There's an example file in that directory you can copy.

[hhaidar]

Oh, I forgot to mention that we support hubot as well: https://github.com/hhaidar/hubot-lets-chat

[kirushik]

@hhaidar Oh, that's great, tanks for tipping those out.
I'll see if Let's chat will suit my current team.

Still need to figure out some IRC-public-room-to-XMPP-MUC bridge, though.

[PerfectCarl]

I haven't found a convenient ready to javascript library to achieve that.
It goes without saying that I'm interested in the feature as well as in the implementation :)

[jotterbot]

Is there an existing open source/free library/service so as not to reinvent the wheel?

Could this be implemented faster if an api call against embed.ly was used (https://github.com/embedly/embedly-node) or something using oEmbed/noembed (https://noembed.com/) spec?

Maybe a global "enable api embeds : yes|no" switch in local.yml for example.

[PerfectCarl]

I have asked a question on software recommendation about the technical side

[saranrapjs]

...I made an extremely simple oembed branch, with provisional support for YouTube and Twitter, but ran into many issues with theoretically supported providers and the default content security policy defined in app.js.

Where did you end up with either implementing either oembed, or something like it? I know embedly supports some proxying (which might get around the CSP) but seems weird to depend on something that costs money.