React Link Preview

A React component that renders beautiful, fully-customizable link previews.

Demo

How to use

Install the package:

yarn add @dhaiwat10/react-link-preview

npm install @dhaiwat10/react-link-preview

Import and render the preview:

import { LinkPreview } from '@dhaiwat10/react-link-preview';

const Home = () => {
  return <LinkPreview url='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ' width='400px' />;
};

If the component renders nothing, it means that no metadata could be scraped for the URL. Provide a fallback component if you don't want to render null.

Important

This package uses a Heroku proxy to get around CORS issues. Feel free to go through the source code of the proxy here.

I highly recommend forking both this repo and the proxy repo, and deploying your own copy of the project if you plan to use this package in a production app.

API (Available props)

You can pass the following props to the LinkPreview component.

url (string)

The URL for which you want to generate the link preview.

fallback (JSX.Element / any valid JSX)

A fallback component which will be rendered if a link preview could not be generated.

showLoader (boolean)

Whether you want to display the default loading skeleton or not.

customLoader (JSX.Element / any valid JSX)

Custom loader that will be displayed in place of the default loader.

backgroundColor (string)

Background color of the card.

primaryTextColor (string)

Color of the primary text (title).

secondaryTextColor (string)

Color of the secondary text (description, URL, domain name).

borderColor (string)

Color of the border of the card.

className (string)

Any custom CSS class that you want to apply to the card.

width (string or number)

Width of the card.

height (string or number)

Height of the card.

margin (string or number)

Margin around the card.

descriptionLength (number)

Length of the description in the card. (number of characters)

borderRadius (string or number)

Border radius of the card.

imageHeight (string or number)

Height of the image.

textAlign ( left, right or center)

Alignment of the text.

Props marked with ? are optional.