Hey folks! I'm building an image generation tool that automates link previews.
Later this week I'm launching a new feature. But I wanted to give the DEV community a sneak peek!
Send me a link to your best GitHub repo and I'll create a custom social image.
You can upload this on the settings page of the repo - it will be used when you share on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
Feel free to ask for a specific color or hex code!
Here are some examples
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Thanks so much! Here’s mine:
🦄 GitHub.com/braydentw/react-emoji-search
Sure thing - here's two versions! Would love to know what you think.
Very cool - thanks! So is this what the mugshotbot tool does?
This is an upcoming feature. It's mainly used to automate link preview images for your blog. You drop in a line of HTML and it dynamically creates an image when share on Twitter/Facebook.
Nice :)
What would the HTML be for? (Sorry for all the questions. This is just a super interesting tool to me :D)
No problem at all!
With a subscription you can add some HTML to your
for crawlers to get your image. For example, in the snippet below the ... can be set to dynamically generate images for every page on your blog.Ok ok ok. That makes sense now 😅. I thought I had to insert a piece of HTML onto the website.
Thanks for your clarification. Is there a free version of this?
Ha, nope, just a meta tag! And yeah, there is a free version.
With the free version you can generate unlimited images via the web GUI. Automating via a URL and removing the small watermark is a paid service.
Got it - thanks for the info :D
No problem! Let me know if you have any more questions or would like to set it up on your blog :)
Here's my best Repository:
github.com/akhilesh-balaji/Textylic
Here you go! You can upload an image to github.com/akhilesh-balaji/Textyli... if you want to use it.
That looks amazing, Thanks!
Can you do it for my portfolio repo - github.com/aditya-mitra/aditya-mit... ?
Sure thing, here you go! Would appreciate any feedback.
The second one is great.
Are there more themes?
There's one more. It's like the colored one but more saturated. The color can also be completely customized.
I see the examples. Can the watcher and stargazer counts auto-update?
Unfortunately not yet. GitHub doesn't provide an API to interact with this image. So you would have to download and upload manually every now and then.
It takes me less than one minute for each repo and I personally do it about once a month.
I guess it's Puppeteer time?
Oh boy, that would be something! Not sure if I could automate that for other folks though. OAuth kind of breaks down when a tool has full control of the browser.
github.com/rubiin/nestjs-easyconfig and github.com/rubiin/nestjs-minio
Here you go! Let me know what you think :)
Seems pretty cool. 🙂
github.com/supernova13892/zmt
Thanks! Here's three renders. You can upload one by appending /settings to your repo URL. Would love to know what you think :)
Ohh this sound awesome
github.com/sinewtech/waterbase
Thanks in advanced
Btw if you could get a blue like the drop that would be awesome
Sure thing! Here's three renders. You can upload one by appending
/settingsto your repo URL.github.com/chethancm2001
Can you please edit my github
Which repo would you like an image for?
Oh, I wanna see it: github.com/matiasgdev/mern-blog-re...
Sure thing! Here's two versions. You can use upload one to github.com/matiasgdev/mern-blog-re...
Excellent 👌 Looking forward to use it.
Thanks Nishant! Feel free to pass along one of your repos if you want a sneak peek :)