Glancify

🔍 Glancify is a lightweight TypeScript library that generates a link preview from any public URL by extracting the page's title, description, and Open Graph image.

✨ Features

• Automatically extracts:
  • <title> tag
  • Meta description tag
  • Open Graph meta tags: og:title, og:description, og:image
• Returns a clean and simple JSON object
• Written entirely in TypeScript
• Designed for server-side usage (Node.js)

📦 Installation

npm install glancify

🚀 Usage

import { glancify } from 'glancify';

(async () => {
  const preview = await glancify('https://example.com');
  console.log(preview);
})();

Example output:

{
  "title": "Example Page Title",
  "description": "This is the meta description of the page.",
  "image": "https://example.com/og-image.jpg"
}

⚠️ Notes

• Works only with publicly accessible HTTP/HTTPS URLs
• Ideal for backends, social previews, content scrapers
• Assumes HTML is UTF-8 encoded

🛠️ Future Enhancements

• Support for non-UTF-8 charsets
• Add timeout and retry logic
• Use a real HTML parser for improved robustness (e.g. cheerio)