IFramely alternatives, homebrewed solution, etc.

[phenomlab]

@julian it seems that the link-preview package has been deprecated

https://www.npmjs.com/package/js-link-preview

[julian]

@phenomlab ah, well, then it's a good thing I use

https://www.npmjs.com/package/link-preview-js

[phenomlab]

To take the heat off @julian in lieu of his new arrival to the Lam family I decided to take a stab at this myself, and have a working solution here

https://sudonix.org/topic/495/potential-replacement-for-iframely

It's NOT perfect, and NOT finished, but working for the most part. It's also not a plugin, but raw code.

Let me know if any interest.

[julian]

@phenomlab hehe that's exactly where I am at the moment. Just need to put it into a plugin and add some settings.

[julian]

@phenomlab so it seems like link-preview-js is also deprecated!

Only recently (31 March 2023), though, so I think perhaps if it still working fine, then NodeBB could take it over.

[phenomlab]

@julian I knew I wasn't seeing things 🤭. It's one of the reasons I started to write my own replacement. Not that I'm impatient, but to give something back to the NodeBB Community (once I've finished it)

[julian]

I do think using that library is still worth it. The server-side component I think it helpful because then we can leverage caching to reduce noise to queried servers.

I have been fiddling with my own plugin today and hope to have something to demo soon

It's a race!!

[phenomlab]

@julian I'm using a CORS proxy with caching for what I'm developing. Currently it's using content headers but tomorrow I will secure it with an API key.

The drawback here is that the CORS proxy needs to run as a daemon but is very efficient and gets around the cors restrictions nicely.

[julian]

Mmm sounds like our camo proxy we use here for images.

[phenomlab]

@julian yes, exactly.