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📣 shash7

Show a webpage's metadata in a popup when you hover over its link?


Hey folks I'm trying to validate an idea for a browser extension which shows a popup when you hover over a link. This popup shows metadata of that webpage including comment count, followers, following, etc and other metrics.

I've been working on this for a few months and I enjoy using it. It has saved a lot of my time browsing large lists of links(Eg: https://github.com/nuxt-community/awesome-nuxt)

Would you be interested in using something like this? Here's a small preview: https://linkpreviews.io


  👤 moxylush Accepted Answer ✓
Sure. It would be cool if it read the URL's JSON-LD / OpenGraph structured data then displayed a thumbnail image. Maybe show a summary of outgoing links and incoming links for SEO analysis.

👤 shash7
Edit: Here's a preview gif: https://linkpreviews.io