We just launched our Link Preview (Unfurl, Expand) API! Please let us know what you think.

I'm a technical person and I can honestly say I understand 0 (ZERO) of what that is. the slight hint of meta tags suggests it either parses or encodes them. I also dislike the links to rapidapi, a lot. only when I went through the API I could make a guess it's supposed to be regex-as-a-service for meta tags?

but not all is lost. if I understand it correctly, here's how you can take it from 0 to 100:

it's aimed towards social marketers (I assume?), lose the technical jargon (hide it in small print), emphasize the marketing jargon ("increase social awareness" whatever)
most links should direct to your domain (it's ok to use rapidapi but don't use it as a host for half your pages)
must explain better what it does. do I create link? do I parse links? what is the ultimate purpose of this? (I still think it's a regex-as-a-service)

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I'm a technical person and I can honestly say I understand 0 (ZERO) of what that is. the slight hint of meta tags suggests it either parses or encodes them. I also dislike the links to rapidapi, a lot. only when I went through the API I could make a guess it's supposed to be regex-as-a-service for meta tags?

but not all is lost. if I understand it correctly, here's how you can take it from 0 to 100:
1. it's aimed towards social marketers (I assume?), lose the technical jargon (hide it in small print), emphasize the marketing jargon ("increase social awareness" whatever)
2. most links should direct to your domain (it's ok to use rapidapi but don't use it as a host for half your pages)
3. must explain better what it does. do I create link? do I parse links? what is the ultimate purpose of this? (I still think it's a regex-as-a-service)
haxbee

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6 years ago
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  Thank you for your feedback. A few clarifications:
  
  This product is an API, so it's for developers. Any suggestions on how to make that clearer?
  
  I think the only links to RapidAPI are for the pricing page because that's how you can signup to try out the API. Should we include a pricing page on our site instead? It would add an extra click to the signup process.
  
  You give us a link, via an HTTP request, and we return data for that link (title, author, publish date, description, and media). We'll make that clearer on our page.
  
  Thank you again!
  danyoder
  
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  6 years ago
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