News - Preview creation

[frankwiles]

On Link news types use this service to grab the data. We'll use this service Peekalink

• [ ] Store data from the service in a JSON field
• [ ] Pull the image locally that is given by the service and store it locally like a normal Django file

[frankwiles]

@louistatta can you create an account with this service https://www.peekalink.io/. We'll likely never need beyond the free plan, but wanted to make sure C++ Alliance owned the account with them.

[louistatta]

The site gives me errors trying to create an account.

[frankwiles]

Well, crap, that looked like the best one. I'll find another to use.

[gregnewman]

Any movement on this? It's blocking #438 so I can move that into it's own issue if this is going to take a while.

[frankwiles]

@louistatta can you give this service another try, I was just able to create an account with them. I think the issue you ran into was a temporary one.

[frankwiles]

Actually nevermind, ran into yet another error this is garbage. Sorry to bother you @louistatta

[frankwiles]

Let's sign up and use LinkPreview https://www.linkpreview.net/ if you would @louistatta

[gregnewman]

@louistatta did this get setup yet?

[vinniefalco]

Investigating

[gregnewman]

@vinniefalco thanks. this is blocking me on some news related styling and context.

[louistatta]

@frankwiles @gregnewman @vinniefalco sent Frank the API key via Slack.