Open source code for making link preview text and thumbnails for posts
Some code I found on Stack Overflow that I thought would come in helpful later, and wanted to save. I found it here:
The author said:
After hours of googling I found the answer myself.. there is already a question in SO Is there open-source code for making 'link preview' text and icons, like in facebook? . So we can use this link http://api.embed.ly/1/oembed?url=YOUR-URL via http GET where we get the meta tags in json format.. I wrote my own code using JSdom and here goes the code...