You may have seen a preview of a link with a title, image, domain, and description when you share a link on social media.

This preview has a significant impact on the user's decision to click on or not click on that link. previewlink will help you to get the preview of a link.

PyPI

previewlink looks for the following tags in the page source

• Open graph protocol
• Twitter cards
• HTML tags (title, p, img, h1, h2)

Run the following to install

pip install previewlink

>>> from previewlink import preview_link
>>> # Generate link preview
>>> preview_link("https://github.com/sreehari1997")
{
    'title': 'sreehari1997 - Overview',
    'description': 'Developer. sreehari1997 has 69 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.',
    'domain': 'github.com',
    'image': 'https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/22663556?v=4?s=400'
}

To install previewlink, along with the tools you need to develop and run tests, run the following in your virtual env

$ pip install -e .[dev]