Has anyone tried to add a Facebook-style link parser to their Meteor app, where a user can paste a link that automatically generates a picture, snippet, and some meta-data? I see lots of examples on the Internet but nothing specific to Meteor.
Just thought I’d see if there are any other projects to join forces with before I try and roll my own.
@mizzao I am also very interested in developing this solution. http://embed.ly/ apis is what is suggested by telescope but I would like to have special meteor package.
Actually, that looks pretty good. It seems pretty complex to do this the right way and I don’t want to re-invent the wheel.
@mizzao : You should also check out https://github.com/itteco/iframely . They have open source apis.
Do you know of any other services like embed.ly and iframely for comparison? These are actually exactly what I’m looking for; I just didn’t know what they were called.
Would be nice to have an out of the box solution for Meteor. 
iframely seems very useful! But it seems like it doesn’t read from domains that it doesn’t know.
embed.ly works great, but having to pay kind of sucks.
I’d rather have a free Meteor-packaged solution that does the job most of the time (even if it’s not perfect). Maybe a wrapper for iframely plus a parser?