OpenGraph Tools

Meme titled "AI in demos vs. AI in production". On the left, a young Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, neatly dressed in robes holding a wand. On the right, an older, crazed-looking Daniel Radcliffe in a robe and monster slippers, holding two pistols.

Building your own web data service feels like this. It's magic in demos, but chaos in production. Our API is built for the chaos, delivering reliable link previews and structured content at scale.

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Up late again optimizing the infrastructure cost for the Open Graph API. Bootstrapping means every dollar counts. Who else is living the #StartupLife? Join the early crew: OpenGraph.tools

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JavaScript rendering was supposed to be the "nice to have" feature. Turns out 40% of modern sites need it for basic content extraction. Now it's core infrastructure. Lesson learned: users always need the optional features.

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Sounds good!

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Comic meme. Panel 1: A big, tough prisoner asks a small prisoner, "I killed a man, you?". Panel 2: The small prisoner says, "Skipped review, ran SQL straight on prod!". Panel 3: The tough prisoner recoils in horror, shouting "DUDE, WTF?!".

Running a flaky, self-hosted scraper on production is a big risk. Don't be that person. Trust our 99.9% uptime API for all your link preview and screenshot needs. Ship with confidence.

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Optimizing for sub-500ms response times means making weird trade-offs. Caching strategies, edge deployment, DNS tricks. It's like a puzzle where every piece affects three others. Currently shaving off milliseconds and it feels like a game.

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4-panel meme showing "In movies" vs. "Reality" for Gamers and Hackers. The stereotypes are swapped, with the modern, cool setup labeled "Gamers" in reality, and the nerdy, retro setup labeled "Hacker" in reality.

Reality: Building a robust web data pipeline is complicated. Let us be the nerdy guy in the back room so you can ship the cool, futuristic UIs. Get rich link previews with a single API call.

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Documenting code examples for 8 different languages before launch. Started with #Javascript and #Python, now doing #PHP and #Ruby. Each language has its own idioms and patterns. Which language would you want supported first for a web scraping/OG API?

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Meme of a young boy with a slight, knowing, and slightly pained smile. Text reads: "When you ask someone a boolean question and they return a string".

Tired of inconsistent data types from the web? Our API turns messy pages into clean, structured JSON, so you get the data you actually expect. Get reliable link previews and web content, fast.

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Yeah. I think that user friendly aspect is important.

I think you're right.

This makes sense. Thanks!

Writing docs for OpenGraph.tools and wondering: do developers prefer detailed explanations with examples or quick-start guides that get you running in 60 seconds? Probably both, but which would you read first?


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Debating whether to support CSS selectors, XPath, or both in our scraper API. CSS is cleaner but XPath is more powerful. Devs: which would you actually use? Trying to avoid feature bloat before we even launch.

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Our content extraction API now detects main content vs sidebar noise. Tested it on 1000 random articles. Accuracy is wild. Building the training dataset was the real challenge though.

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Three weeks into building OpenGraph.tools and the hardest part isn't the code—it's handling edge cases. Broken UTF-8, weird redirects, sites that block bots. The web is beautifully messy.

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Just realized our screenshot API can capture full pages in under 500ms. Spent all morning stress-testing it with random URLs. What's the weirdest website you'd want to screenshot?

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Working on smart fallbacks for when Open Graph tags are missing. Question: should we prioritize meta descriptions or the first H1? Both have trade-offs. What would you expect as a developer?

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That's useful advice. Thank you!

Day 12: Fighting the urge to add additional aspects and features. Just say no to scope creep.

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OpenGraph.tools — Web APIs for Link Previews, Scraping, Screenshots & Content Extraction Ship link previews, capture screenshots, scrape HTML, and extract content — all with one developer-first platform. Blazing fast. Built to scale.

Scaling metadata extraction shouldn’t feel like a full-time job. Let our API handle the edge cases so you can focus on features.

Check it out! ⬇️
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OpenGraph.tools — Web APIs for Link Previews, Scraping, Screenshots & Content Extraction Ship link previews, capture screenshots, scrape HTML, and extract content — all with one developer-first platform. Blazing fast. Built to scale.

Scraping metadata shouldn’t be painful. Our API makes it simple: one request, structured response, done. No regex gymnastics required.

Check it out! ⬇️
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Day 8: Life intervened.

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Day 7: Working on the plan for setting up and getting access to various proxies. I anticipate that this will be one of the trickiest parts.

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OpenGraph.tools — Web APIs for Link Previews, Scraping, Screenshots & Content Extraction Ship link previews, capture screenshots, scrape HTML, and extract content — all with one developer-first platform. Blazing fast. Built to scale.

We’re building a tool for devs, marketers, and platforms: an Open Graph API that just works. What industries do you think need this the most?

Check it out! ⬇️
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Day 6: The only progress today was in queuing up posts and performing other marketing-related tasks.

Tomorrow I hope to focus on productionizing the prototype.

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Day 5: Not as much progress as I would have liked. Today was mostly spent getting full test coverage in place.

I also spent some time think about the social media outreach strategy.

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Looks like a good time saver!