LinkPreview: A middleware for EFB

Notice

Middleware ID: catbaron.link_preview

LinkPreview is a middleware for EFB to generqate link preview for the first url contained by the message.

• For url refering to an image, the image should be sent as preview.
• Add \np at the begining of message to avoid link preview for current message.

You need to use MessageBlocker on top of EFB. Please check the document and install EFB first.

Dependense

• Python >=3.6
• EFB >=2.0.0b15
• beautifulsoup4

Install

• Install

  pip install efb-link-preview-middleware

• Register to EFB
  Following this document to edit the config file. The config file by default is ~/.ehforwarderbot/profiles/default. It should look like:

master_channel: foo.demo_master
slave_channels:
- foo.demo_slave
- bar.dummy
middlewares:
- foo.other_middlewares
- catbaron.link_preview

You only need to add the last line to your config file.

• Restart EFB.