Survol is a browser extension that previews any link you hover. The code is open-source. We use APIs (for services like twitter, wikipedia, youtube,..) and meta-data to create previews
@michael_andreuzza Thank you, if you find the article I'd be really interested in reading it, I've never heard of anything similar but I wouldn't be surprised if it's already been thought of
@m_dolr Yes, let me look for it, I should have it somewhere. Btw,i will share Survol on my newsletter. unicornsfeed.com
give me a couple of minutes and i come back with the link.
@rrhoover Hey thank you!
The "leaderboard" idea wasn't really planned at first, I just wanted to show a list of contributors and I needed a way to organize them in a table so I guess it ended up like that naturally.
Hey Product Hunt community!
Here is my side-project, Survol, a free and open-source browser extension to preview any link you hover.
Current features :
Survol has API implementations for the following sites :
- Twitter
- Reddit
- Youtube
- Soundcloud
- Wikipedia
We use page title and meta-data to provide previews for other websites.
Project history :
I started Survol last year during Hacktoberfest* 2019 as a personal project. I paused it for a year.
I picked it back up a few days ago and I've received a lot of contributions and help from the open-source community. In just a few days we've fixed old bugs from last year and added many features.
As people are interested in the project on Github and a few friends have asked me for the code I figured I should publish the extension and share it here.
*Hacktoberfest is an event run by Digital Ocean during october (hence the name), that rewards open source contributions.
I wanted something to hover over links and show a preview, similar to how hovering over a new tab or window in a browser shows a preview of the contents.
But instead it just getting the info from "meta?" or smwhere anyway it wasn't what i was looking for but i hope it will be smthing better in the near future!
Hello, thank you for the review, the product is an open-source project which is not maintained anymore.
If you're looking for visual previews there are other extension that have been doing this for a long time, this was not the goal of this project, I guess this is more of the type of product you're searching for : https://chrome.google.com/websto...
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