Microlink

Browser as an API.

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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Simulate a browser accessing a URL to retrieve screenshots, metadata (Open Graph, Twitter, JSON+LD, oEmbed & HTML), convert to PDF, track speed using Lighthouse. Provided as a managed API with a CLI, but it’s made up of various open source components they maintain so you can always run them yourself.

Tradeoffs

SDKs are JS-only (React, Vue, JS), so you need to use the API from other languages.

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