unfurl is a kotlin library that generates link previews by extracting their social metadata.
val unfurler = Unfurler()
println(unfurler.unfurl("https://saket.me/great-teams-merge-fast/"))
UnfurlResult(
url = "https://saket.me/great-teams-merge-fast",
title = "Great teams merge fast",
description = "Observations from watching my team at Square produce stellar work while moving fast and not breaking things.",
favicon = "https://saket.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cropped-saket-photo-180x180.jpg",
thumbnail = "https://saket.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/great_teams_merge_fast_cover.jpg"
)unfurl is extensible. See TweetUnfurler as an example for unfurling tweets that can't be HTML scraped.
val unfurler = Unfurler(
extensions = listOf(TweetUnfurler(), ...)
)implementation "me.saket.unfurl:unfurl:1.7.0"
implementation "me.saket.unfurl:unfurl-social:1.7.0" // For TweetUnfurler.$ brew install saket/repo/unfurl
$ unfurl https://saket.me/great-teams-merge-fastCopyright 2022 Saket Narayan.
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