Fetch Title & Description of a URL

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Hey Gliders,
Hope that someone might have a suggestion :slight_smile:

I have an app where users paste links and then they need to provide the title and description. I’m trying to simplify the process so that once the users add a link, I would like to somehow fetch the title and description from the URL.

Unfortunately, the fetch function in sheets doesn’t work on array formula :frowning:

Any idea on how to fetch the metadata from a URL to a link that is added to glide?

Thanks!

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Not sure if this helps, but the Link Component actually does most of that for you…

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:flushed: :astonished:

I must have missed it!, going to check it out now. thanks!

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Where is that? I couldn’t find it.

I want to be able to use “title” and “description” within my glide app.

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It’s the Link component in the components list, under the Buttons category.

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Got it. Thanks for your help, but that only allows me to show the title of a link in a link component.
I want to show the title and description of a link in other components.

I want to use the title and description as values and to be able to present them in components (without asking the user to give me the title manually, like I do now)

  • A user is adding an an item using a form (this is a form to add an event to a calander). one of the fields is a link (external) to the virtual event
  • I want to pull the title and description automatically from the URL and add it to the events I show.

I want to show those events on the app, with their title and subtitle

(Here is a the app I am reffering to: RoomsIL.club)

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If you’re not afraid of a bit of Apps Script, that would be quite trivial using the UrlFetchApp class.

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