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Show HN: Metacheck – preview how any link appears on social media and chat apps (metacheck.appstate.co)
pogue 50 days ago [-]
This is very cool!

Would it be possible to add Bluesky link cards? It passes through this domain to extract the link card and can be very hit and miss on how they show up.

https://cardyb.bsky.app/v1/extract?url=

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Abluesky-social%2Fatproto%...

giantrobot 50 days ago [-]
Blue sky's card domain is cute and clever. I miss clever "machine" (may be a HA cluster) names.
WD-42 50 days ago [-]
Here’s a version of the same idea but runs locally, so you can test without deploying. https://apps.gnome.org/SharePreview/

OP, maybe next step is to try a local version?

pizzly 50 days ago [-]
This is very good. One thing though Telegram (at least the linux version) does not support transparency and makes the transparency red. However, Metacheck shows it as transparent. Having all this on one page is a massive time saver.
rahimnathwani 49 days ago [-]
You might get more users if you had shareable URLs, e.g.

https://metacheck.appstate.co/site/news.ycombinator.com

talljohnson1234 46 days ago [-]
This is now possible chief, kindly try it out.
djhn 49 days ago [-]
That is such a great growth hack. As in, it’s both a useful feature AND a growth mechanism.
gigatree 50 days ago [-]
Probably want to have https appended automatically
talljohnson1234 50 days ago [-]
Would push a fix for this, apologies for the inconvenience.
talljohnson1234 46 days ago [-]
a fix has been pushed for this, you can try it now.

I Deeply appreciate the feedback.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 50 days ago [-]
Ah I'd been using https://www.opengraph.xyz/
vivzkestrel 50 days ago [-]
An error occurred in the Server Components render. The specific message is omitted in production builds to avoid leaking sensitive details. A digest property is included on this error instance which may provide additional details about the nature of the error.
ulrischa 50 days ago [-]
A good idea bit the visualisation ist wrong. I.e. the preview image will not be shown correctly
2big2fail_47 49 days ago [-]
yeah it doesn’t work if you try it with https://youtube.com

i really like the idea though

talljohnson1234 49 days ago [-]
Would investigate why it wasn't working and push out a fix. thanks for trying it out.
toteroni 50 days ago [-]
This is awesome! I can’t believe this never occurred to me- my wife texts me links to her UX all the time to see how her changes look before the changes go to prod.
kridsdale1 47 days ago [-]
This doesn’t work for google maps links. It shows an icon and not the open graph images associated with a shared location.

Try this for instance: https://maps.app.goo.gl/jfj2vTjeZDTYSGMv9?g_st=com.google.ma...

gazook89 50 days ago [-]
I like it, and one additional thing (because isn’t there always): It’d be nice if this could be offline to use with local development.
marcellus23 49 days ago [-]
Should add support for Apple platforms (i.e. LPLinkView used in Notes/Messages/Mail etc.)
talljohnson1234 46 days ago [-]
Dully noted, will push this in the next update.
imcritic 50 days ago [-]
An error occurred in the Server Components render. The specific message is omitted in production builds to avoid leaking sensitive details. A digest property is included on this error instance which may provide additional details about the nature of the error.
talljohnson1234 50 days ago [-]
Will look into this issue and push a fix.
imcritic 49 days ago [-]
Seems to work today. Nice service, thank you for it!
eddiejaoude 46 days ago [-]
Awesome! Love these previews tools! Super useful.

I am creating a free tool to preview the whole social post.

uneekname 49 days ago [-]
Well done! I was recently looking around for something like this and didn't love the options. Bookmarked Metacheck :)
talljohnson1234 46 days ago [-]
Thanks, really means alot.
colesantiago 50 days ago [-]
Is this open source?

I'm assuming it is since I see a GitHub logo on it, although it isn't working...

talljohnson1234 46 days ago [-]
talljohnson1234 50 days ago [-]
Sorry, it was just an oversight. I will append the URL in the next deployment.
mediumsmart 49 days ago [-]
Very good. I use metatags.io at the moment. Local version would be great.
talljohnson1234 45 days ago [-]
Local version is coming soon.
vladkens 48 days ago [-]
Great idea! Quick and easy link previewing is super useful.
talljohnson1234 45 days ago [-]
Thanks for the feedback, really means alot.
flas9sd 49 days ago [-]
well done.. made me enable my static-sitegens opengraph plugin, add images, rewrite summaries, thanks!

Mastodon preview? :)

talljohnson1234 46 days ago [-]
Coming soon hopefully, this Saturday.
talljohnson1234 45 days ago [-]
Done, this has been deployed.
brianfryer 50 days ago [-]
10/10; thank you so much!
talljohnson1234 45 days ago [-]
Thanks for the feedback.
vawogbemi 50 days ago [-]
can i see the code?
talljohnson1234 50 days ago [-]
Sure, will make it open source soon.
dbg31415 49 days ago [-]
Another good site for previewing metadata.

https://socialsharepreview.com/

swagatkonchada 50 days ago [-]
it doesn't recognise a url without the scheme? come on!
talljohnson1234 50 days ago [-]
Will push a fix for this, sorry about that.
bryanhogan 50 days ago [-]
Can anyone tell me why WhatsApp seems so random whether it display the social preview image and text or not? E.g. for my own website https://bryanhogan.com/ it shows up in the tool but not in actual chats.
mh- 49 days ago [-]
I've noticed this just as a casual user of WhatsApp, when pasting links into a conversation. I'm not sure what triggers it either, but I can say that it sometimes works for (e.g.) one tweet and not another.
leonhard 49 days ago [-]
I just tried your URL on my WhatsApp and it shows up exactly as in the preview from the tool. My experience is is has to be the full URL with https:// and it only shows the first link, and it sometimes gets confused when you have multiple links in a message and shuffle them around/delete some of them.
esafak 49 days ago [-]
Maybe it times out depending on the load.
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