I am attempting to create some functionality on beta.peaksneak.com where users can basically journalize. To do this I want them to be able to add images, videos, quotes, and links to a journal entry.
I found out that you can use oEmbed to embed videos, and images/quotes are easy.
Is there a script for embedding links and auto-capturing a large image from the link to use for embed purposes? For example, on Facebook, when I paste a link into a comment, it automatically generates an image and text (probably from meta tags and the first large image it can find).
You can also try https://github.com/starfishmod/jquery-oembed-all for your oembed stuff – it has a lot of providers and is client side only if that is what you are looking for?