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that seems like a reasonable solution. I'd like to be able to do this in slack conversations - I haven't used slack in a while, but the auto-generated descriptions were always a distraction, would be nice to select the text I want for the link preview.

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I agree. So, I made link preview from buk.io platform the quote itself. Here is one example. Try to put it in slack, facebook or twitter to see how it looks. https://buk.io/@ea1149/5/9704~9850

I signed up and gave the wikipedia feature a try, it works, but is there a way to link to any website of my choosing, or is it limited to wikipedia/books?

Thank you for your trying out the service. We may be able to wrap around the other sites only if we know the details of the system e.g. how it keeps versions and so on. Otherwise, chrome plugin like tool is necessary. The goal of the platform is to use just web browser and web URL scheme so that plugin approach is in the back burner yet. Please try out searching for public domain books as well. We started the service with Wikipedia and Gutenberg project ebooks so that users may cite from then. Thank you again.

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