previewjs vs unfurl

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previewjs		unfurl
	Project
24	Mentions	4
1,777	Stars	262
3.6%	Growth	-
9.9	Activity	6.9
5 days ago	Latest Commit	15 days ago
TypeScript	Language	Kotlin
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

previewjs

Posts with mentions or reviews of previewjs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.

The "+page.svelte" stinks
2 projects | /r/sveltejs | 8 Dec 2023
What modifications do you make to vscode to improve coding experience ?
1 project | /r/webdev | 26 Jun 2023
Preview.js: Preview UI components in your IDE instantly
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2023
vsode extension for .vue preview
3 projects | /r/vuejs | 31 Oct 2022

Previewjs.com seems promising. Although the pricing is a bit overboard.
Preview.js - Preview UI components in your IDE instantly. Compatible with React 16+, SolidJS, Svelte, Vue 2 and Vue 3
1 project | /r/sveltejs | 25 Oct 2022

1 project | /r/vuejs | 25 Oct 2022

1 project | /r/reactjs | 25 Oct 2022

1 project | /r/javascript | 25 Oct 2022
Preview.js: Preview UI Components in IDEs
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2022
How to preview components?
1 project | /r/vuejs | 4 Sep 2022

https://previewjs.com/ could be a good option. shows component previews in your IDE

unfurl

Posts with mentions or reviews of unfurl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.

Ksoup - Koltin Multiplatform HTML Parser ⚡
3 projects | /r/androiddev | 11 May 2023

Very interesting! I've been wanting to migrate my library, unfurl to kotlin multiplatform. Maybe this is my sign.
Unfurl, a library for generating link previews
5 projects | /r/androiddev | 20 Mar 2022

unfurl is not very different from your gist. It is slightly more comprehensive by supporting both Open Graph Protocol and Twitter Cards, plus falls back to back to reading HTML head tags. It is also extensible for websites that use javascript and can't be scraped such as twitter.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing previewjs and unfurl you can also consider the following projects:

vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

Dawn - Here lies the fork of greatest open-source Reddit app

plasmic - Visual builder for React. Build apps, websites, and content. Integrate with your codebase.

crux - Crux offers a flexible plugin-based API & implementation to extract interesting information from Web pages.

play.tailwindcss.com

Tusky - An Android client for the microblogging server Mastodon

hn-search - Hacker News Search

markdown-preview.nvim - markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim

PreVue - 🎨 All in One Prototyping Tool For Vue Developers.

SwiftLinkPreview - It makes a preview from an URL, grabbing all the information such as title, relevant texts and images.

storybook - Storybook is a frontend workshop for building UI components and pages in isolation. Made for UI development, testing, and documentation.

mpv_thumbnail_script - A Lua script to show preview thumbnails in mpv's OSC seekbar, sans external dependencies