Idea: Generate social image previews for single images (original #1076)

[obulat]

This issue has been migrated from the CC Search Frontend repository

Author: zackkrida
Date: Thu Jul 23 2020
Labels: ✨ goal: improvement,🏷 status: label work required,🙅 status: discontinued,🚧 status: blocked

It would be really lovely to generate image previews for social media that showed the attribution as a watermark, and perhaps the cc search logo, instead of just showing a plain image:

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Original Comments:

zackkrida commented on Thu Jul 23 2020:

Relates to the 'open graph image generator' idea expressed in #1077 source

[krysal]

Oh, maybe this is why the watermark endpoint exists?

[zackkrida]

No, the watermark predates this issue. Here's the original watermark issue and PR:

• https://github.com/cc-archive/cccatalog-api/issues/209
• https://github.com/cc-archive/cccatalog-api/pull/214