toddbirchard / hackersandslackers-api-old

🔌 Standalone API to handle account creation, auto-publish to medium, and sitewide link embeds.

Hackers and Slackers API

What Is This Thing?

This is an API serving a Ghost blog: Hackers and Slackers dot com. Under the constraints of a blog theme, this API was created to provided additional functionality to an otherwise simple app designed solely to serve content. While still in active development, this project serves a number of purposes:

Link Embedder

• Replaces a given site’s <a> with sophisticated link previews as embedded HTML.
• Scrapes the following from any given URL:
  • Title
  • Description
  • Preview image
  • Author
  • Publish Date
  • Tags
  • Domain Origin
• Metadata is embedded as pure HTML to improve the site owner’s SEO and user friendliness by adding rich content to sites which are link-heavy.
• Site content is modified by directly interacting with the site's database.

Account creation

• A collection of features aimed to simplify the sign up processes as much as possible.
• Infers information about the user to simplify onboarding.
• Welcomes new users via a Sendgrid mailer.

Auto Syndication

• Automates the syndication of new posts to content platforms lacking this functionality (namely Medium)

Analytics... stuff.

• It's complicated.