link-prevue

A flexible component for generating a link preview

Intallation

npm install link-prevue

Basic usage

Javascript

import LinkPrevue from 'link-prevue'

HTML

<div id="app">
  <LinkPrevue url="https://vuejs.org/"></LinkPrevue>
</div>

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Custom card

To use a custom card, set your own html code between the aperture tag and the close tag of component. Using the scoped slot.

<div id="app">
  <LinkPrevue url="https://vuejs.org/">
    <template v-slot="props">
      <div class="card" style="width: 20rem;">
        <img class="card-img-top" :src="props.img" :alt="props.title" />
        <div class="card-block">
          <h4 class="card-title">{{props.title}}</h4>
          <p class="card-text">{{props.description}}</p>
          <a v-bind:href="props.url" class="btn btn-primary">More</a>
        </div>
      </div>
    </template>
  </LinkPrevue>
</div>

Custom loading indicator

To use a custom loading indicator, use the loading slot.

<div id="app">
  <LinkPrevue url="https://vuejs.org/">
    <template v-slot:loading>
      <!-- set your custom loading -->
      <h1>Loading...</h1>
    </template>
  </LinkPrevue>
</div>

Custom button handler

For custom button handler use the onButtonClick property, like.

HTML

<div id="app">
  <LinkPrevue url="https://vuejs.org/" :onButtonClick="onClick"></LinkPrevue>
</div>

Javascript

import LinkPrevue from 'link-prevue'

export default {
  components:{
    LinkPrevue
  },
  methods: {
    onClick(prevue) {
      console.log('click', prevue.images, prevue.title, prevue.url, prevue.description)
    }
  }
}

Props API

link-prevue have the following props for customize the component

Prop	Type	Required	Default Value	Description
url	String	yes	undefined	Site url for generate link preview
onButtonClick	Function	no	undefined	Function for a custom button handler, params => prevue
cardWidth	String	no	'400px'	Card width, accept px and %
showButton	Boolean	no	true	Render card button
showButtonWhileLoading	Boolean	no	false	Show a button during loading state that opens the URL. Useful when loading multiple links takes time.
apiUrl	String	no	https://link-preview-api.nivaldo.workers.dev/preview	Custom API url, link-preview add a query param called ?url= check this
hideWhenEmpty	Boolean	no	false	Hide card when image, title, and description are all null in the API response

API REST

link-prevue uses an API REST for retrieve link data if you want to use your own API REST check this.

Troubleshooting

429 Too Many Requests

If you are seeing 429 Too Many Requests errors, this means the API used by link-prevue has exceeded its free usage limits.

This library relies on a Cloudflare Worker running on the free plan. Because the API is public and shared across all users, the free quota can be exhausted. When this happens, Cloudflare automaticly throttles requests and returns 429 responses.

Recomended solution: use a custom API

To avoid rate limits and ensure consistet availability, we strongly recommend use your own API instance intead of the shared public one. You can deploy your own Cloudflare Worker (or compatible backend) and configure link-prevue to point to it using api-url prop. This gives you:

• A dedicated API for your project or instance
• Full control over limits and usage
• Better reliability in production environments

Follow this step-by-step tutorial to set up and use a custom API.

Once configured, update link-prevue’s API endpoint to your custom URL, and the 429 errors should no longer occur.

License

This code is distributed under the terms and conditions of the MIT license.

compatibility

version	vue
v2.x	v3.x
v1.x	v2.x