Support Request: Getting text or media from link

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Support Request: Getting text or media from link #147

Closed nikhildaga closed 11 years ago

nikhildaga commented 11 years ago

In facebook or twitter or google+ : whenever a user posts a link, it shows summary if the link is an article, an image if its image link and video if its youtube url, etc.

Can node.io be useful in implementing this functionality?

Thanks.

chriso commented 11 years ago

Yes, node.io can be used to implement this sort of summary. Node.io only provides the framework for scraping and parsing HTML; you'll need to write the higher-level parsing logic yourself.