Building Beautiful Link Previews with a Metadata API
When you paste a URL into Slack, Twitter, or iMessage, a rich preview appears showing the page title, description, and an image. These link previews feel like magic to users, but behind the scenes, someone had to fetch and parse the metadata from that URL. In this tutorial, you will learn how to build beautiful link previews for your own application using a metadata extraction API. We will cover Open Graph tags, Twitter Cards, fallback strategies, and production-ready code examples. ...