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Thumbnail extraction on App Engine

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

by julien • 14 years ago

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tantalor2• 14 years ago

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

julien2• 14 years ago

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

tantalor2• 14 years ago

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.

robertocr• 14 years ago

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

julien2• 14 years ago

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

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