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bgreenlee
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APOD Slack Unfurls

Post by bgreenlee » Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:53 pm

We're big fans of APOD at my company, and we have a #space Slack channel where we automatically post a link to APOD every morning. However, the unfurl you get in Slack isn't terribly interesting:

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However, Slack will look for OpenGraph metadata headers in the page and use those if it finds them. I wrote a little app that uses the NASA APOD API to generate the headers and then automatically redirect to the APOD page. This is what it looks like in Slack:

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Ideally, the APOD page could incorporate these headers and this hack wouldn't be necessary. In the meantime, feel free to use my app at https://astroslack.fly.dev, or create your own API key and host it yourself.

Cheers,

Brad

lvesbagel
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Re: APOD Slack Unfurls

Post by lvesbagel » Tue Jan 23, 2024 3:15 pm

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gildshelfie
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Re: APOD Slack Unfurls

Post by gildshelfie » Mon Jan 29, 2024 9:33 am

bgreenlee wrote: Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:53 pm We're big fans of APOD at my company, and we have a #space Slack channel where we automatically post a link to APOD every morning. However, the unfurl you get in Slack isn't terribly interesting:

Image

Howeversurvivor io, Slack will look for OpenGraph metadata headers in the page and use those if it finds them. I wrote a little app that uses the NASA APOD API to generate the headers and then automatically redirect to the APOD page. This is what it looks like in Slack:

Image

Ideally, the APOD page could incorporate these headers and this hack wouldn't be necessary. In the meantime, feel free to use my app at https://astroslack.fly.dev, or create your own API key and host it yourself.

Cheers,

Brad
A great idea. I'm really excited to see your results. :ssmile: