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[felixgirault]

It would be nice to have a way to extract minimal information about URLs without making actual requests.
For example, it is possible to guess an HTML embed code from a Youtube URL.

Pros

• It would help for cases where the user only needs minimal information, like the HTML code (Performance #125) or the media type (Notify if an article contains video/audio wallabag/wallabag#880)

Cons

• There is no guarantee on the information we could get, depending on how easy it is to infer from an URL. For example, we could guess HTML code to embed a Youtube video, but not from another provider. So it would be the user's responsibility to check if any information is available.

[thiagomoraesp]

It would be great to have it in xml or database with attributes like last update/data/TTL(for expiration control).

[BassemN]

@felixgirault It will be a great enhancement, I hope to see it soon.

[felixgirault]

@BassemN @thiagomoraesp if you guys want to contribute in any way, it would be great!
I don't have much time to work on essence these times but I'll be glad to see it continuing to evolve :)