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Comparing version 2.1.8 to 2.1.9

package.json

		{
		"name": "link-preview-js",
		"version": "2.1.8",
		"version": "2.1.9",
		"description": "Javascript module to extract and fetch HTTP link information from blocks of text.",
		"main": "build/index.js",
		"exports": {
		"require": "./build/index.js",
		"import": "./build/index.js"
		".": {
		"require": "./build/index.js",
		"import": "./build/index.js"
		},
		"./package.json": "./package.json"
		},
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README.md

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		# Link Preview JS
		<h1 align="center">Link Preview JS</h1>

		Allows you to extract information from a HTTP url/link (or parse a HTML string) and retrieve meta information such as title, description, images, videos, etc. The information is extracted from facebook's OpenGraph protocol.
		<div align="center">
		<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1634213/127743288-9f8a99f3-75d8-42c5-9a69-b47c661b7e18.jpg" height="500"/>

		Created by [Oscar Franco](www.twitter.com/ospfranco).
		<pre align="center">
		npm i link-preview-js
		</pre>

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		Allows you to extract information from a HTTP url/link (or parse a HTML string) and retrieve meta information such as title, description, images, videos, etc.

		## GOTCHAs

		- You cannot request a different domain from your web app (Browsers block cross-origin-requests). If do not know how _same-origin-policy_ works, [here is a good intro](https://dev.to/lydiahallie/cs-visualized-cors-5b8h), therefore this library works on node (back-end environments) and certain mobile run-times (cordova or react-native).
		- This library fetches the website and parses its html, as if the user would visit the page, this means: YouTube re-directs you to the mobile site and Instagram (and other social sites) might redirect you to a sign up page, you can try to change the user-agent header (try with `google-bot`) and the response you get then might be mangled, but there is nothing wrong with this library, you need to work around these issues yourself.
		- You cannot request a different domain from your web app (Browsers block cross-origin-requests). If you don't know how _same-origin-policy_ works, [here is a good intro](https://dev.to/lydiahallie/cs-visualized-cors-5b8h), therefore this library works on node (back-end environments) and certain mobile run-times (cordova or react-native).
		- This library acts as if the user would visit the page, sites might re-direct you to sign-up pages, consent screens, etc. You can try to change the user-agent header (try with `google-bot` or with `Twitterbot`), but you need to work around these issues yourself.
		- When you are testing this library do not use google.com, it does not return the necessary headers and you will think the library is broken.

		## Install

		```
		yarn add link-preview-js
		```

		## API
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