Thumbnail extraction on App Engine(github.com)

13 pointsby julien14 anni fa5 comments

https://github.com/superfeedr/image-extrator

2 comments

tantalor14 anni fa

Why not return a 301 so this service could be used directly by web browsers?

julien14 anni fa

I guess that could be an option. On our context, we would love to avoid that all browsers ask for the image url.

tantalor14 anni fa

Agreed, it's not worthwhile to engage costly App Engine frontends for a memcache lookup.

You could add (e.g.) varnish to cache the redirects.

robertocr14 anni fa

Why use BeautifulSoup when LXML is available on Google App Engine?

julien14 anni fa

Well, that's what's used in the Reddit library which we took as a starting point... so we kept it :)