Feature request: thumbshots/previews of all websites

[niutech]

Could you provide thumbshots/previews of all external websites, possibly by using one of the ready-to-go APIs: LinkPreview, Iframely, PicSee, Thum.io or Thumbshots.org? Thanks

[mdolr]

Those ready-to-go APIs start charging money above a given amount of requests, while the data is available for free. Also by using these services we don't control what is injected into the DOM.

By doing our own custom implementations :

• The extension can stay free
• We have control over everything and can customize each website implementation
• We don't have any problem with firefox / chrome denying the extension because of external code

We're looking to add custom implementations for a lot of website having an oEmbed API see #140

[niutech]

Easy-Thumb is free with no limit. Can't you just show thumbshots using <img src="https://www.easy-thumb.net/thumb?url=http://example.com&size=80x60&view=desktop" alt=""> without any third-party JS?

[mdolr]

Well easy-thumb provides a preview from the entire website, it's not what we are trying to achieve with Survol, Safari already does that and I'm pretty sure other extensions do that already. The goal is to only preview important data so people can decide if they want to click or not