[FREE] πŸ”— Link Previewer Extension | Fetch title, description, image, favicon, etc

πŸ”— Link Previewer Extension

An extension for MIT App Inventor 2.
Link Previewer - Fetch title, description, image, favicon, etc.

The Link Previewer extension brings smart URL preview functionality to your Kodular projects β€” just like you see in messaging apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, or Facebook Messenger.

With a single method, you can extract rich metadata from any website or article link and display it beautifully in your app.


:rocket: Features

  • :page_facing_up: Fetches Title and Description
  • :framed_picture: Loads Open Graph Images (thumbnails)
  • :globe_with_meridians: Gets the website Favicon
  • :link: Extracts Canonical URL
  • :label: Detects Site Name and Content Type (video, article, etc.)
  • :warning: Includes an error event if metadata can’t be fetched

:memo: Specifications


:package: Package: com.syntex.linkpreviewer
:floppy_disk: Size: 283.97 KB
:mobile_phone: Minimum API Level: 7
:date: Updated On: 2025-04-06T18:00:00Z
:laptop: Built & documented using: FAST-CLI

:brick: Kodular Blocks

Events:

LinkPreviewer has total 2 events.

:yellow_heart: GotPreview

GotPreviewBlock

Fires when metadata is successfully fetched

Parameter Type
url text
title text
description text
image text
favicon text
canonicalUrl text
siteName text
type text

:yellow_heart: PreviewFailed

PreviewFailedBlock

Fires if fetching preview failed

Parameter Type
url text
error text

Method:

LinkPreviewer has total 1 method.

:purple_heart: GetLinkPreview

GetLinkPreviewBlock

Fetch metadata from a URL

Parameter Type
url text

Download LInk
com.syntex.linkpreviewer.aix (285.2 KB)
Example

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thanks @taifun
would u want to check it.
plz give us a review.

Thanks this is useful extension .

But update the Download URL of the extension to make developers have the ability to download it !

I found some bug so I removed the download link.
Now it is working fine <3 :wink:

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Nice extension

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