Add Rich Link Previews to Any Web App in 5 Minutes (React, Vue, Node.js)

Every chat app, social feed, and CMS needs link previews. You paste a URL, and it shows the title, description, and image — like Slack, Discord, or Twitter. Building this yourself means: Fetching remote pages server-side Parsing Open Graph / Twitter Card meta tags Handling timeouts, redirects, encodings Caching results Running a headless browser if you want screenshots Or you can use an API and skip all of that. Here's how to add link previews to your app in under 5 minutes using LinkPeek — a free link preview API. Step 1: Get a Free API Key curl -X POST https://linkpeek-api.linkpeek.workers.dev/v1/register \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"email": "you@example.com"}' Response: { "api_key" : "lp_aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsTuVwXyZ012345" , "plan" : "free" , "daily_limit" : 100 } Free tier: 100 requests/day, no credit card. Step 2: Fetch Link Metadata Node.js / Express // server.js app . get ( ' /api/preview ' , async ( req , res ) => { const { url } = req . query ; const response =