Replying to Avatar Vitor Pamplona

Amethyst doesn't show Twitter preview cards because Twitter requires a full-fat JavaScript browser to get the OpenGraph tags from their HTML. Not even simplified JavaScript libraries work.

The app has to open the cited URL, run all JavaScripts in there and get the second URL to know what the link is about.

It adds risk, processing time, and increases the app size.

Let me know if you all want this, but my opinion is that we should not render Twitter cards until they add their OpenGraph tags to their first HTML result.

This is not hard.
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pjv 2y ago

I agree with your assessment. Until and unless twitter provides a reasonable API you shouldn't try to display the cards.

What about scraping the content of the tweet and rendering it sort of like a quoted post? (Maybe that's what you already do - I don't remember and couldn't find any examples of tweet quoting posts in my current timeline).

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pjv 2y ago

Or maybe even scraping is too expensive. I can totally live without twitter.