Add automatic description

[NerosTie]

It could be great to have an automatic description of the link by reading the content of the meta "description".
Just like the title, but for the description.
And, maybe, tags?

[dimtion]

Yes, retrieve some description from the the meta-data looks like a good idea. Perhaps adding a delete button on the description field would be helpful when the provided text is broken or unwanted.

About the tags, I was thinking of a good way of handling them : would the choice of tags be based on the shared url, on the sharing app or on key words in the description ? Maybe a mix of theses. It would also need a little rework of the tags field to delete them easily, indeed adding such automation would create a significant amount of unwanted tags. The problem is that each user has its own view of what a good tag is, and I would not be the one choosing for them.

[mro]

there's a lengthy thread over at shaarli/Shaarli#322

description makes sense to me (https://github.com/mro/ShaarliOS), tags rather don't.

[dimtion]

Could you have a look at : https://github.com/dimtion/Shaarlier/releases/tag/v1.3.0-alpha

Please tell me if you have remarks or if you find any bug.

[NerosTie]

It works well!

But more websites could be supported (because they don't use the classic meta description) if you add:

<meta property="og:description" content="" />
<meta name="twitter:description" content="" />

(plus, the Settings menu in the app, between Share a link and Open my Shaarli, is useless)

[dimtion]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll add them for the next release.

[mro]

see also at shaarli/Shaarli#322 (comment)

[dimtion]

Thanks @mro for the reminder (I have probably over read your comment...)

In shaarli/Shaarli#322 they don't mention twitter:description meta tag, what priority should be choose ? What about for example og:description > twitter:description > description) ?

[NerosTie]

@dimtion I think twitter must be the last because it's limited in every case or there are hashtags inside.

I would say : description > og:description > twitter:description (og=opengraph=facebook)

But maybe I'm wrong!

[dimtion]

Yes you are right, but as @mro mentioned in shaarli/Shaarli#322 (comment) og:description should probably be first.