Idea: Generate social image previews for single images

[obulat]

This issue has been migrated from the CC Search Frontend repository

Author: zackkrida
Date: Thu Jul 23 2020
Labels: ✨ goal: improvement,🏷 status: label work required,🙅 status: discontinued,🚧 status: blocked

It would be really lovely to generate image previews for social media that showed the attribution as a watermark, and perhaps the cc search logo, instead of just showing a plain image:

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Original Comments:

zackkrida commented on Thu Jul 23 2020:

Relates to the 'open graph image generator' idea expressed in #1077 source

[krysal]

Oh, maybe this is why the watermark endpoint exists?

[zackkrida]

No, the watermark predates this issue. Here's the original watermark issue and PR:

• https://github.com/cc-archive/cccatalog-api/issues/209
• https://github.com/cc-archive/cccatalog-api/pull/214

[sarayourfriend]

@obulat this issue reminded me of the write up you did recently about sharing and Openverse. How does this issue fit in? Should we update this one with the changes you recommended for oembed?