Link Preview

A script to provide the user with a preview of the link entered.

• When entered a link, the script will provide with title, description, and link of the website that the URL points to.
• The script will do so by fetching the Html file for the link and analyzing the data from there.
• The data will be saved in a JSON file named db.json for further reference
• Every entry will have a time limit after which it will be updated (Data expires after 7 days)

Setup instructions

Download the required packages from the following command in you terminal.(Make sure you're in the same project directory)

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Running the script:

After installing all the requirements,run this command in your terminal.

python3 linkPreview.py

Output

The script will provide you with Title, Description, Image Link and URL.

Author(s)

Hi, I'm Madhav Jha author of this script 🙋‍♂️