Launched this week
Link Preview API
Free API to get Open Graph data, title & images for any URL
239 followers
Free API to get Open Graph data, title & images for any URL
239 followers
Completely free. Get back everything you need to render a rich link card in your app – the kind you see in Slack, iMessage, or Twitter when someone pastes a link. Dedicated handling for popular websites like YouTube, Amazon, Twitter, Airbnb, SoundCloud, NYT, Vimeo, Giphy, and more. These return reliable, high-quality previews every time. Built in image validation, and JavaScript rendering. Works directly from the browser, no proxy server required. Free usage up to 20,000 link previews.
Being able to call it straight from the browser is great, but some of us will want server-side requests too. Adding a small Node.js or Python SDK would make it way easier to batch-prefetch previews when saving bookmarks or generating OG images.
Fabric
@okandg58 Totally agree – we actually do have a TypeScript SDK: https://exabase.io/docs/sdks/overview
Toolport (formerly Conduit)
The "works directly from the browser, no proxy server required" part caught my eye. If the key is callable client-side, how are you handling abuse? Per-origin rate limits, domain allowlists on the key, something else? Asking because that's usually the exact reason these APIs force you through a backend.
And the edge-case pain is real. OG scraping looks like an afternoon project right up until you meet sites that render every meta tag client-side, or lie in them. Purpose-built handlers for the big offenders is the honest solution even if it's the unglamorous one.
Generous free tier. Congrats on the launch, Johnny.
Fabric
@tsouth2 Thanks Tyler, and great feedback!
The dedicated handling for Amazon, YouTube and friends is the part that actually earns the free tier, since generic OG scraping falls apart on exactly those. One thing I hit building preview cards: the og:image for a lot of big sites is a signed CDN link that expires, so a card you cached looks fine today and 403s the image tomorrow. Do you rehost or proxy the image so the preview stays stable, or hand back the origin URL as-is? That changes a lot for anyone caching results.
A reliable, free API to instantly pull Open Graph data and clean preview images is exactly the kind of utility tool developers love to keep in their back pocket. Big congrats on the launch! Are there any specific rate limits on the free tier that we should watch out for?
Fabric
Thanks @doganakbulut! It's free for 20,000 link previews per month – beyond that, it's just a nominal charge of 0.01 credits to avoid spam.
Johnny you're doing great here!
Saw the demo video quite minimal and engaging and also u were smart that you kept it under 30 sec cause more than that no one's watches it but one feedback for u is you should add a voice over using ai or something it would have made this to studio quality!
Fabric
@divvsaxena Appreciate that feedback! Noted for the future :)
@johnny_makes Awesome man! GG
This is really helpful, used Apple Mail Link Preview as a quick fix until now.
Fabric
@christian_sailer Glad you'll find it useful! We've really battle-tested this one, so it's a reliable long-term solution
Really like the concept. Pulling this data is, in theory, simple enough. Until you hit an edge case and get blocked... or get junk content returned for no apparent reason. Can certainly think of places where this will be useful. Congrats on a strong product.
Fabric
Thanks @martin_tanner! Was really born out of necessity (we couldn't find anything reliable), and the internet is absolutely filled with wild variations and weird edge cases