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Is there any way to generate thumbnails of web links like Facebook generates when we paste a link in status or comment?

12th November 2013

My answer to Is there any way to generate thumbnails of web links like Facebook generates when we paste a link in status or comment? on Quora

There are a bunch of services that can do this. I’ve successfully used http://url2png.com/ for this in the past.

Posted 12th November 2013 at 12:11 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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