Leaf

NOTE: This is in development and not usable yet.

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Leaf is a microservice capable of proxying images, audio and video as well as fetching websites metadata.

While primarily designed to be used within Squirrel, Leaf can be used in your stack as it's a completely independent service which can be ran on its own.

Features

• F a s t: Leaf is designed to handle very large amounts of requests efficiently;
• Website metadata fetching: Leaf extracts Twitter and OpenGraph metas in websites header in a neat JSON object;
• Media proxying: Prevent user's IP from leaking when displaying user-posted content on your application;
  • Image on-fly resize: Leaf can resize images on fly to reduce bandwidth usage and improve app's responsiveness.
  • Video & audio compression: Leaf compresses audio and video (lossy compression) to reduce bandwidth usage.
• Reliable content detection: Leaf never uses file extensions to identify a link contents but its Content-Type header to ensure accurate results;
• Fast lookup: Leaf uses caching to enhance loading times when pinging multiple times the same link;

And more!

Extra websites metadata

For some websites, Leaf uses more than simply metadata but also scrapes website contents. Want to see more websites supported or a website support improved? File an issue or submit a PR!

• Twitter:
  • Tweets: Retweets, Likes, Comments count
  • Users: Bio, Location, Website, Birth date, Join date, Following count, Followers count, Tweets count
• Reddit
  • Posts: Upvotes, Comments count, Author, Subreddit details
  • Subreddits: Members, Online, Creation date
  • Users: Karma, Cake Day, Followers
• YouTube
• Discord
• Wikipedia
• MyAnimeList
• And more!

Robot Exclusion Protocol (REP) compliance

Leaf does not behaves according to REP. Google's proposed standard has not been accepted as a RFC yet, and we don't feel Leaf's traffic should be governed by this protocol.