LinkThumbnailer VS FastImage

Compare LinkThumbnailer vs FastImage and see what are their differences.

LinkThumbnailer

Ruby gem that fetches images and metadata from a given URL. Much like popular social website with link preview. (by gottfrois)

FastImage

FastImage finds the size or type of an image given its uri by fetching as little as needed (by sdsykes)
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LinkThumbnailer FastImage
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510 1,351
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0.0 6.4
8 months ago 5 days ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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LinkThumbnailer

Posts with mentions or reviews of LinkThumbnailer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.
  • Linkit, a beginner link aggregator
    3 projects | dev.to | 3 Jan 2023
    Linkit is a beginner project created using Rails 7, with extensive use of the Turbo technology, as well as the Devise gem for authentication. It also utilizes the handy Link Thumbnailer and Acts as Votable gems for generating thumbnails for link posts, and allowing votes on posts and comments, respectively. On the front end, Bootstrap is used to help make everything uniform, with some tweaking done with Sass. The logo and buttons (one being made with the help of a CC0 image), as well as the default avatar and thumbnails were all made by me, using GIMP!

FastImage

Posts with mentions or reviews of FastImage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing LinkThumbnailer and FastImage you can also consider the following projects:

instabot.rb - An instagram bot works without instagram api, only needs your username and password. written in ruby

MetaInspector - Ruby gem for web scraping purposes. It scrapes a given URL, and returns you its title, meta description, meta keywords, links, images...

pismo - Extracts machine-readable metadata and content from Web pages

Mechanize - Mechanize is a ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy.

anemone - Anemone web-spider framework

Upton - A batteries-included framework for easy web-scraping. Just add CSS! (Or do more.)

Screencap - A gem to screencap webpages in ruby. Uses Phantom.js under the hood.

Supplejack API - Supplejack API Mountable Engine

The Hawker Ruby gem - The Hawker gem is a web scraper which allows you to pull the basic information for given social media profile URL