Comments (3)
mdolr
commented on July 20, 2024
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
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niutech
commented on July 20, 2024
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?
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mdolr
commented on July 20, 2024
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
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Related Issues (20)
- Implement direct link to images HOT 2
- Add other websites from the StackExchange network to the StackExchange implementation HOT 5
- Make the survol preview interactive HOT 2
- The survol container should display a placeholder / loading icon HOT 6
- Implement soundcloud profile pages HOT 1
- Onboarding page HOT 2
- List of missing translations : HOT 8
- Rework the landing page HOT 9
- Add a blacklist to deal with website that already have a preview for inner links HOT 18
- The survol container is removed from the DOM in SPA
- Add a badge on the extension icon HOT 1
- Add custom templates for websites supporting oEmbed
- Cache the changelog on onboarding page HOT 2
- Feature request: Inject in existing web pages HOT 1
- Add some indicator while fetching the preview HOT 1
- Make a version for Microsoft Edge HOT 2
- Customizable Wait-Time HOT 1
- SPF +all mechanism should not be used at survol.me
- [Bug] - Make Inoreader hard to load
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