Tiptapify

Link cards ​

A link card shows a link the way messengers do: the page's image, site name, title and description, read from its OpenGraph (og:*) tags. It is a block of its own (linkCard), not an image with a link. Everything about cards lives in the link tool: a click on a card selects it and highlights the Link button of the toolbar, a double click opens the link dialog with the card.

A card is made from a link:

  • Pasting a URL into an empty line keeps it a link and offers Link / Card next to it.
  • The link dialog has a Display as: Link / Card switch. Card shows the card fields: the page data is loaded as you type the address (or by Refresh data), and the image, title, description, site name and layout (compact, large, without image) can be changed by hand. The same switch turns an existing link into a card.
  • A selected card opens in the link dialog (Link button or double click) to edit it, and Display as: Link turns it back into a link.

The link dialog of an editor with linkPreview, as it opens for a pasted address. The fields are read-only here: the page data comes from a demo endpoint, not from the address. Switch Display as and the card layout to see the dialog change:

And how a card looks in the editor, in each layout.

Compact, the image on the left:

Large, the image on top:

Without image, the texts only:

Why a backend endpoint ​

A browser can't read another site's page: CORS blocks the request unless that site allows it, and most sites don't. So tiptapify asks your endpoint, which downloads the page on the server and answers with its OpenGraph data.

vue
<Tiptapify
  :link-preview="{ endpoint: '/api/link-preview', headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` } }"
/>

Without linkPreview, or while its endpoint doesn't answer the handshake, nothing offers a card: pasting a URL makes a plain link and the link dialog has no Display switch. Cards already in the content stay editable.

The endpoint contract ​

One endpoint answers two GET requests (sent with Accept: application/json and your headers).

Handshake ​

GET /api/link-preview — no url. The editor sends it once per endpoint and page load (all the editors of the page share it), and once more when the link dialog opens if it failed (the endpoint may be up by now). It must fetch no page and answer:

http
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{ "tiptapifyLinkPreview": 1 }

1 is the version of this contract. A plain 200 or 204 is not enough on purpose: a SPA fallback or a login page answers 200 to any path.

Preview ​

GET /api/link-preview?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fblog%2Fgetting-started answers the page data. Every field but url is optional; empty ones are ignored:

json
{
  "url": "https://example.com/blog/getting-started",
  "title": "Getting started",
  "description": "Install the package and create your first page.",
  "image": "https://example.com/images/getting-started.png",
  "siteName": "Example"
}

An error answers a 4xx/5xx status with { "error": "…" }; the dialog shows the message and keeps the link as it is. GET lets your server or CDN cache the answers by url.

With an upload endpoint, tiptapify also stores the page image with it (a page may change or drop it later). A browser can read that image only when its host allows CORS; otherwise the card links the original image. Your endpoint may as well return an image it already stored itself.

Saved HTML ​

html
<a class="tiptapify-link-card" data-link-card="compact" href="https://example.com/blog/getting-started" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
  <img class="tiptapify-link-card__image" src="https://example.com/images/getting-started.png" alt="">
  <span class="tiptapify-link-card__body">
    <span class="tiptapify-link-card__site">Example</span>
    <span class="tiptapify-link-card__title">Getting started</span>
    <span class="tiptapify-link-card__description">Install the package and create your first page.</span>
  </span>
</a>

data-link-card is compact (image on the left), large (image on top) or text (no image). The whole card is one link, so it works on a site without any script. Its look comes with the HTML as inline styles by default, or from tiptapify/content.css for classes only: see Content styles.

Example endpoints ​

The examples below behave the same way, so pick the one of your stack:

  • GET without url answers the handshake and fetches nothing.
  • Only public http(s) addresses are read (no SSRF): every address of the host must be public, not a private network, loopback, link-local (cloud metadata) or reserved one, otherwise the answer is 422.
  • Redirects are followed by hand, up to 3, and the address of each one is checked again. The PHP, Laravel and Node.js examples connect to the very address they checked, so a DNS answer can't change between the check and the request.
  • The page is read with a 5-second timeout, only its first megabyte (the head is enough; the Laravel example refuses pages over 5 MB).
  • The data comes from the og:* tags, then twitter:*, <meta name="description">, <title> and the host name; the image is made absolute and kept only when it is http(s).
  • A page that can't be read (an error status, a timeout, a redirect to an internal address) answers 502.
php
<?php

// link-preview.php: GET /link-preview.php answers the handshake, GET /link-preview.php?url=… the page data.
// PHP 8.2+ with the curl and dom extensions.

declare(strict_types=1);

const TIMEOUT = 5;
const MAX_REDIRECTS = 3;
const MAX_BYTES = 1_000_000;

function reply(int $status, array $body): never
{
    http_response_code($status);
    header('Content-Type: application/json');
    echo json_encode($body, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);
    exit;
}

/**
 * The curl `RESOLVE` entry of a public http(s) URL, null for anything else. Never let the endpoint reach an
 * internal address (SSRF): every address of the host must be public, and curl connects to the one checked.
 */
function publicTarget(string $url): ?string
{
    $parts = parse_url($url);
    $scheme = strtolower($parts['scheme'] ?? '');
    $host = trim($parts['host'] ?? '', '[]');
    if (!in_array($scheme, ['http', 'https'], true) || $host === '') {
        return null;
    }

    $ips = filter_var($host, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP)
        ? [$host]
        : [...(gethostbynamel($host) ?: []), ...array_column(@dns_get_record($host, DNS_AAAA) ?: [], 'ipv6')];
    foreach ($ips as $ip) {
        if (filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_GLOBAL_RANGE) === false) {
            return null;
        }
    }
    if ($ips === []) {
        return null;
    }

    $port = $parts['port'] ?? ($scheme === 'https' ? 443 : 80);
    $ip = str_contains($ips[0], ':') ? "[{$ips[0]}]" : $ips[0];

    return "{$host}:{$port}:{$ip}";
}

/** The HTML of a page (its first MAX_BYTES) and its address after redirects, each redirect checked again */
function fetchPage(string $url): ?array
{
    for ($redirects = 0; $redirects <= MAX_REDIRECTS; $redirects++) {
        $target = publicTarget($url);
        if ($target === null) {
            return null;
        }

        $html = '';
        $curl = curl_init($url);
        curl_setopt_array($curl, [
            CURLOPT_RESOLVE => [$target],
            CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => false,
            CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS => CURLPROTO_HTTP | CURLPROTO_HTTPS,
            CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => TIMEOUT,
            CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
            CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; LinkPreview/1.0)',
            CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['Accept: text/html'],
            // The head of a page is enough: stop reading after MAX_BYTES (a shorter return aborts the transfer)
            CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION => function ($curl, string $chunk) use (&$html): int {
                $html .= $chunk;

                return strlen($html) > MAX_BYTES ? 0 : strlen($chunk);
            },
        ]);
        curl_exec($curl);
        $status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE);
        $location = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL);

        if ($status >= 300 && $status < 400 && $location) {
            $url = $location;

            continue;
        }

        return $status === 200 ? [$html, $url] : null;
    }

    return null;
}

/** An address of the page made absolute; an empty string for anything but http(s) */
function absoluteUrl(string $href, string $base): string
{
    if ($href === '' || preg_match('~^https?://~i', $href)) {
        return $href;
    }

    $parts = parse_url($base);
    $origin = $parts['scheme'].'://'.$parts['host'].(isset($parts['port']) ? ':'.$parts['port'] : '');

    return match (true) {
        str_starts_with($href, '//') => $parts['scheme'].':'.$href,
        str_starts_with($href, '/') => $origin.$href,
        (bool) preg_match('~^[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:~i', $href) => '',
        default => $origin.preg_replace('~/[^/]*$~', '/', $parts['path'] ?? '/').$href,
    };
}

/** @return array<string, string> */
function openGraph(string $html, string $url): array
{
    $document = new DOMDocument();
    @$document->loadHTML('<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?>'.$html, LIBXML_NONET);

    $meta = [];
    foreach ($document->getElementsByTagName('meta') as $tag) {
        $key = strtolower($tag->getAttribute('property') ?: $tag->getAttribute('name'));
        $content = trim($tag->getAttribute('content'));
        if ($key !== '' && $content !== '') {
            $meta[$key] ??= $content;
        }
    }
    $title = trim((string) $document->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)?->textContent);

    return array_filter([
        'title' => $meta['og:title'] ?? $meta['twitter:title'] ?? $title,
        'description' => $meta['og:description'] ?? $meta['twitter:description'] ?? $meta['description'] ?? '',
        'image' => absoluteUrl($meta['og:image'] ?? $meta['twitter:image'] ?? '', $url),
        'siteName' => $meta['og:site_name'] ?? (string) parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST),
    ]);
}

$url = trim((string) ($_GET['url'] ?? ''));

// The handshake: no url, no page fetched
if ($url === '') {
    reply(200, ['tiptapifyLinkPreview' => 1]);
}

if (publicTarget($url) === null) {
    reply(422, ['error' => 'Only public http(s) pages have a preview.']);
}

$page = fetchPage($url);
if ($page === null) {
    reply(502, ['error' => 'The page did not answer.']);
}

[$html, $pageUrl] = $page;
reply(200, ['url' => $url] + openGraph($html, $pageUrl));
php
<?php

// routes/api.php:
// Route::get('/link-preview', LinkPreviewController::class)->middleware(['auth:sanctum', 'throttle:60,1']);

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Uri;
use GuzzleHttp\Psr7\UriResolver;
use Illuminate\Http\Client\ConnectionException;
use Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

final class LinkPreviewController
{
    private const MAX_REDIRECTS = 3;

    private const MAX_BYTES = 5_000_000;

    public function __invoke(Request $request): JsonResponse
    {
        // The handshake: no url, no page fetched
        if (! $request->filled('url')) {
            return response()->json(['tiptapifyLinkPreview' => 1]);
        }

        $url = (string) $request->query('url');
        if ($this->publicTarget($url) === null) {
            return response()->json(['error' => 'Only public http(s) pages have a preview.'], 422);
        }

        // The page data is cached, not the response; a failed page (null) is asked again next time
        $preview = Cache::remember('link-preview:'.sha1($url), now()->addDay(), fn (): ?array => $this->preview($url));

        return $preview === null
            ? response()->json(['error' => 'The page did not answer.'], 502)
            : response()->json(['url' => $url] + $preview);
    }

    /** @return array<string, string>|null */
    private function preview(string $url): ?array
    {
        for ($redirects = 0; $redirects <= self::MAX_REDIRECTS; $redirects++) {
            // Every redirect is checked again, and curl connects to the address checked
            $target = $this->publicTarget($url);
            if ($target === null) {
                return null;
            }

            try {
                $response = Http::timeout(5)
                    ->withUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; LinkPreview/1.0)')
                    ->accept('text/html')
                    ->withOptions([
                        'allow_redirects' => false,
                        'curl' => [CURLOPT_RESOLVE => [$target], CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE => self::MAX_BYTES],
                    ])
                    ->get($url);
            } catch (ConnectionException) {
                return null;
            }

            if ($response->redirect() && $response->header('Location') !== '') {
                $url = (string) UriResolver::resolve(new Uri($url), new Uri($response->header('Location')));

                continue;
            }

            return $response->successful() ? $this->openGraph($response->body(), $url) : null;
        }

        return null;
    }

    /**
     * The curl `RESOLVE` entry of a public http(s) URL, null for anything else. Never let the endpoint reach
     * an internal address (SSRF): every address of the host must be public.
     */
    private function publicTarget(string $url): ?string
    {
        $parts = parse_url($url);
        $scheme = strtolower($parts['scheme'] ?? '');
        $host = trim($parts['host'] ?? '', '[]');
        if (! in_array($scheme, ['http', 'https'], true) || $host === '') {
            return null;
        }

        $ips = filter_var($host, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP)
            ? [$host]
            : [...(gethostbynamel($host) ?: []), ...array_column(@dns_get_record($host, DNS_AAAA) ?: [], 'ipv6')];
        if ($ips === [] || in_array(false, array_map(fn (string $ip) => filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_GLOBAL_RANGE), $ips), true)) {
            return null;
        }

        $port = $parts['port'] ?? ($scheme === 'https' ? 443 : 80);
        $ip = str_contains($ips[0], ':') ? "[{$ips[0]}]" : $ips[0];

        return "{$host}:{$port}:{$ip}";
    }

    /** @return array<string, string> */
    private function openGraph(string $html, string $url): array
    {
        $document = new \DOMDocument();
        @$document->loadHTML('<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?>'.$html, LIBXML_NONET);

        $meta = [];
        foreach ($document->getElementsByTagName('meta') as $tag) {
            $key = strtolower($tag->getAttribute('property') ?: $tag->getAttribute('name'));
            $content = trim($tag->getAttribute('content'));
            if ($key !== '' && $content !== '') {
                $meta[$key] ??= $content;
            }
        }
        $title = trim((string) $document->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)?->textContent);
        $image = $meta['og:image'] ?? $meta['twitter:image'] ?? null;
        $image = $image === null ? '' : (string) UriResolver::resolve(new Uri($url), new Uri($image));

        return array_filter([
            'title' => $meta['og:title'] ?? $meta['twitter:title'] ?? $title,
            'description' => $meta['og:description'] ?? $meta['twitter:description'] ?? $meta['description'] ?? '',
            'image' => preg_match('~^https?://~i', $image) ? $image : '',
            'siteName' => $meta['og:site_name'] ?? (string) parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST),
        ]);
    }
}
js
// link-preview.mjs: `node link-preview.mjs`, then GET http://localhost:3001/link-preview[?url=…]. Node 18+, no packages.
import dns from 'node:dns'
import http from 'node:http'
import https from 'node:https'
import net from 'node:net'

const TIMEOUT = 5000
const MAX_REDIRECTS = 3
const MAX_BYTES = 1_000_000

// Never let the endpoint reach an internal address (SSRF): private, loopback, link-local and reserved ranges
// (an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address, ::ffff:127.0.0.1, is checked against the IPv4 ranges)
const blocked = new net.BlockList()
for (const [address, prefix] of [
  ['0.0.0.0', 8], ['10.0.0.0', 8], ['100.64.0.0', 10], ['127.0.0.0', 8], ['169.254.0.0', 16], ['172.16.0.0', 12],
  ['192.0.0.0', 24], ['192.168.0.0', 16], ['198.18.0.0', 15], ['224.0.0.0', 3],
]) {
  blocked.addSubnet(address, prefix, 'ipv4')
}
for (const [address, prefix] of [['::', 127], ['64:ff9b::', 96], ['fc00::', 7], ['fe80::', 10], ['ff00::', 8]]) {
  blocked.addSubnet(address, prefix, 'ipv6')
}

const isPublic = (address, family) => !blocked.check(address, family === 6 || family === 'ipv6' ? 'ipv6' : 'ipv4')

// The DNS lookup of every request: it refuses a host with an internal address, so the address checked is the one used
function publicLookup(hostname, options, callback) {
  dns.lookup(hostname, { ...options, all: true }, (error, addresses) => {
    if (error) {
      return callback(error)
    }
    if (!addresses.length || !addresses.every(({ address, family }) => isPublic(address, family))) {
      return callback(Object.assign(new Error(`${hostname} is not a public host`), { code: 'ENOTPUBLIC' }))
    }

    return options.all ? callback(null, addresses) : callback(null, addresses[0].address, addresses[0].family)
  })
}

// A public http(s) address, or null (a host given as an IP skips the lookup, so it is checked here)
function publicUrl(value, base) {
  try {
    const url = new URL(value, base)
    const host = url.hostname.replace(/^\[|\]$/g, '')
    if (!['http:', 'https:'].includes(url.protocol) || (net.isIP(host) && !isPublic(host, net.isIP(host)))) {
      return null
    }

    return url
  } catch {
    return null
  }
}

// One request: a redirect, or the first MAX_BYTES of the page
function request(url) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    const client = url.protocol === 'https:' ? https : http
    const headers = { 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; LinkPreview/1.0)', Accept: 'text/html' }
    const req = client.get(url, { headers, lookup: publicLookup, timeout: TIMEOUT }, (res) => {
      if (res.statusCode >= 300 && res.statusCode < 400 && res.headers.location) {
        res.resume()

        return resolve({ location: res.headers.location })
      }
      if (res.statusCode !== 200) {
        res.resume()

        return reject(new Error(`The page answered ${res.statusCode}.`))
      }

      let html = ''
      res.setEncoding('utf8')
      res.on('data', (chunk) => {
        html += chunk
        // The head of a page is enough
        if (html.length > MAX_BYTES) {
          res.destroy()
        }
      })
      res.on('close', () => resolve({ html }))
    })
    req.on('timeout', () => req.destroy(new Error('The page did not answer in time.')))
    req.on('error', reject)
  })
}

// The HTML of a page and its address after redirects, each redirect checked again. A redirect to an internal
// address fails like a page that does not answer: the address asked for was public
async function fetchPage(url) {
  for (let redirects = 0; redirects <= MAX_REDIRECTS; redirects++) {
    const { location, html } = await request(url).catch((error) => {
      throw redirects && error.code === 'ENOTPUBLIC' ? new Error('The page redirects to an internal address.') : error
    })
    if (html !== undefined) {
      return { html, url }
    }

    url = publicUrl(location, url)
    if (!url) {
      throw new Error('The page redirects to an internal address.')
    }
  }

  throw new Error('Too many redirects.')
}

const ENTITIES = { amp: '&', lt: '<', gt: '>', quot: '"', apos: '\'', nbsp: ' ' }

const decode = text => text.replace(/&(?:#(\d+)|#x([\da-f]+)|(\w+));/gi, (entity, decimal, hex, name) => (
  decimal ? String.fromCodePoint(Number(decimal)) : hex ? String.fromCodePoint(parseInt(hex, 16)) : ENTITIES[name.toLowerCase()] ?? entity
))

function openGraph(html, url) {
  const meta = {}
  for (const [tag] of html.matchAll(/<meta\b[^>]*>/gi)) {
    const attrs = {}
    for (const [, name, double, single, bare] of tag.matchAll(/([\w:-]+)\s*=\s*(?:"([^"]*)"|'([^']*)'|([^\s"'>]+))/g)) {
      attrs[name.toLowerCase()] = double ?? single ?? bare
    }
    const key = (attrs.property || attrs.name || '').toLowerCase()
    const content = decode(attrs.content ?? '').trim()
    if (key && content && !(key in meta)) {
      meta[key] = content
    }
  }
  const title = decode(html.match(/<title[^>]*>([^<]*)<\/title>/i)?.[1] ?? '').trim()
  const image = meta['og:image'] || meta['twitter:image']

  return Object.fromEntries(Object.entries({
    title: meta['og:title'] || meta['twitter:title'] || title,
    description: meta['og:description'] || meta['twitter:description'] || meta.description,
    image: image && publicUrl(image, url) ? new URL(image, url).href : undefined,
    siteName: meta['og:site_name'] || url.hostname,
  }).filter(([, value]) => value))
}

http.createServer(async (req, res) => {
  const send = (status, body) => {
    res.writeHead(status, { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' })
    res.end(JSON.stringify(body))
  }
  const { pathname, searchParams } = new URL(req.url, 'http://localhost')
  if (req.method !== 'GET' || pathname !== '/link-preview') {
    return send(404, { error: 'Not found.' })
  }

  // The handshake: no url, no page fetched
  const value = searchParams.get('url')
  if (!value) {
    return send(200, { tiptapifyLinkPreview: 1 })
  }

  const url = publicUrl(value)
  if (!url) {
    return send(422, { error: 'Only public http(s) pages have a preview.' })
  }

  try {
    const page = await fetchPage(url)
    send(200, { url: value, ...openGraph(page.html, page.url) })
  } catch (error) {
    error.code === 'ENOTPUBLIC'
      ? send(422, { error: 'Only public http(s) pages have a preview.' })
      : send(502, { error: 'The page did not answer.' })
  }
}).listen(3001)
python
# link_preview.py: `python3 link_preview.py`, then GET http://localhost:3002/link-preview[?url=…]. Python 3.9+, no packages.
import ipaddress
import json
import socket
import urllib.error
import urllib.request
from html.parser import HTMLParser
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, ThreadingHTTPServer
from urllib.parse import parse_qs, urljoin, urlsplit

TIMEOUT = 5
MAX_REDIRECTS = 3
MAX_BYTES = 1_000_000


def is_public_url(url):
    """Never let the endpoint reach an internal address (SSRF): every address of the host must be global."""
    parts = urlsplit(url)
    if parts.scheme not in ('http', 'https') or not parts.hostname:
        return False
    try:
        addresses = {info[4][0] for info in socket.getaddrinfo(parts.hostname, parts.port or None)}
    except (socket.gaierror, UnicodeError, ValueError):
        return False

    return bool(addresses) and all(ipaddress.ip_address(address.split('%')[0]).is_global for address in addresses)


class NoRedirects(urllib.request.HTTPRedirectHandler):
    """Redirects come back as a response, so the address each one points to is checked first."""

    def redirect_request(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return None


opener = urllib.request.build_opener(NoRedirects)


def fetch_page(url):
    """The HTML of a page (its first MAX_BYTES) and its address after redirects, each redirect checked again.
    A redirect to an internal address fails like a page that does not answer: the address asked for was public."""
    for redirects in range(MAX_REDIRECTS + 1):
        if not is_public_url(url):
            raise OSError('The page redirects to an internal address.') if redirects else PermissionError(url)

        request = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={
            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; LinkPreview/1.0)',
            'Accept': 'text/html',
        })
        try:
            with opener.open(request, timeout=TIMEOUT) as response:
                charset = response.headers.get_content_charset() or 'utf-8'

                return response.read(MAX_BYTES).decode(charset, errors='replace'), url
        except urllib.error.HTTPError as error:
            location = error.headers.get('Location')
            if not (300 <= error.code < 400 and location):
                raise
            url = urljoin(url, location)

    raise OSError('Too many redirects.')


class OpenGraph(HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(convert_charrefs=True)
        self.meta = {}
        self.title = ''
        self.in_title = False

    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        attrs = dict(attrs)
        if tag == 'meta':
            key = (attrs.get('property') or attrs.get('name') or '').lower()
            content = (attrs.get('content') or '').strip()
            if key and content:
                self.meta.setdefault(key, content)
        self.in_title = tag == 'title'

    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
        if tag == 'title':
            self.in_title = False

    def handle_data(self, data):
        if self.in_title:
            self.title += data


def open_graph(html, url):
    parser = OpenGraph()
    parser.feed(html)
    meta = parser.meta
    image = meta.get('og:image') or meta.get('twitter:image')
    image = urljoin(url, image) if image else ''

    preview = {
        'title': meta.get('og:title') or meta.get('twitter:title') or parser.title.strip(),
        'description': meta.get('og:description') or meta.get('twitter:description') or meta.get('description'),
        'image': image if urlsplit(image).scheme in ('http', 'https') else '',
        'siteName': meta.get('og:site_name') or urlsplit(url).hostname,
    }

    return {key: value for key, value in preview.items() if value}


class LinkPreview(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def send(self, status, body):
        payload = json.dumps(body, ensure_ascii=False).encode()
        self.send_response(status)
        self.send_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
        self.send_header('Content-Length', str(len(payload)))
        self.end_headers()
        self.wfile.write(payload)

    def do_GET(self):
        parts = urlsplit(self.path)
        if parts.path != '/link-preview':
            return self.send(404, {'error': 'Not found.'})

        # The handshake: no url, no page fetched
        url = parse_qs(parts.query).get('url', [''])[0].strip()
        if not url:
            return self.send(200, {'tiptapifyLinkPreview': 1})

        try:
            html, page_url = fetch_page(url)
        except PermissionError:
            return self.send(422, {'error': 'Only public http(s) pages have a preview.'})
        except (OSError, ValueError):
            return self.send(502, {'error': 'The page did not answer.'})

        self.send(200, {'url': url, **open_graph(html, page_url)})


ThreadingHTTPServer(('', 3002), LinkPreview).serve_forever()

PHP needs 8.2+ with the curl and dom extensions, Node.js 18+, Python 3.9+; none of them needs a package beyond the framework.

In production ​

  • Protect the endpoint. It downloads any page it is asked for: put it behind your authentication (the editor sends the headers of linkPreview with every request) and a rate limit, like the Laravel route above.
  • Cache the answers by url, as the Laravel example does: the editor asks again whenever a card of the page is made or refreshed.
  • Same origin or CORS. An endpoint on the editor's own origin needs nothing else; on another origin, allow the editor's origin and the headers you send.
  • The Python example checks the host and then lets urllib resolve it again, so a host that answers DNS differently the second time could slip through. For a public service, connect to the checked address (an httpx transport or a requests adapter can do it) or send the requests through an egress proxy that blocks internal ranges.
  • Encodings. The Python example decodes the page by the charset of its Content-Type; the PHP and Node.js ones read it as UTF-8, which covers most sites. Decode by the charset too if you show pages in older encodings.

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