Peekalink

An API to magically preview any link ✨

8 followers

An API to magically preview any link ✨

8 followers

Links are the glue of the internet, yet by themselves they're just a string of undecipherable characters. With Peekalink, turn them into rich content your users will be delighted to share and engage in.

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Maker

Hi everyone 👋 ! We built this link preview API for our social network. Its more advanced than anything that's out there with optimised thumbnails, redirection trails, automatic https upgrades, semantic text analysis for fallbacks, trackers detection and a bunch of other goodies. Another platform asked if they could use it so we decided to make it a service. While predominant on social networks and messaging apps, links are the glue of the internet and are everywhere. We can't wait to see what other applications can Peekalink facilitate. Stay safe and have a great start of the week!

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5yr ago

Lavender

This is actually super interesting. Gave me an idea for a simple value-add feature to put in our product. Sent to engineering. Nice job.

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5yr ago

Peekalink

Maker

@mballance thanks William! If you ever do use Peekalink, I'd be happy to help making it work for your team!

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5yr ago

Super interesting and I can see this really taking off. Not sure I agree with the traffic flow you're asking for (MyClient <> MyBackend <> Peekalink) as there is a case to be made for dealing directly end point to end point through CDNs -- but I like where you are going with this and it sort of reminds me of how Slack was an internal office toy for a gaming company until they wondered if maybe others might like to use it too !! Good Luck & I look forward to testing it out !

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5yr ago

Peekalink

Maker

@jimmy6dof Hi Jimmy! Thank you so much! In regards to the reasoning for the flow, although you can already use it directly from the front-end, issue is that people might steal your In key and consume your API subscription on your behalf. We can build a hosts allowed setting to allow it to be used in certain domains exclusively, however someone could still use it on their production backend or script. We would love to find a way to make this work. Perhaps the Origin header is enough. Would love to hear your thoughts on this! Stay safe!

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5yr ago