Add support for external links about readder

[andreasvirkus]

I was thinking since Mercury exposes content of the link, then we could go through the links from an (or multiple at once) aggregator and get reading time based on the content that Mercury provides? 🤔
HN also has a nice API 🤷‍♂

Edit: I think it makes sense if devurls could be an enhancement added later and this issue should focus on the original scope

[andreasvirkus]

Sorry, been swamped with various projects at work. Would really like to dive back into this project soon though!

[andreasvirkus]

I'd like to tackle this 🙋‍♂

Mercury seems cool! We could maybe also incorporate something like https://devurls.com/, which gets the best of different link aggregators (lobster, HN, etc.)?

How would you want this implemented?

[sleepyfran]

Wow, you're fast! 😁

My initial idea was checking if the post only included a link to somewhere and, in this case, parsing the content of the link with Mercury, but of course if you come across any other usage we can implement it as well!

How do you think including devurls will work here? It looks amazing but I don't think of a use case for it, at least in this specific issue. Feel free to throw new ideas into this though, I'd love to hear them all!

[sleepyfran]

Oh, I love that idea @andreasvirkus! We can add devurls and hn as providers and since they're just aggregators we can add an option to the services array that spcecifies whether the provider has sub communities or not and show/hide the sub community input based on that.

Love it! Can you open another issue, so we can discuss it there? 😀

[sleepyfran]

That's completely okay! I haven't been very active in the project lately but I definitely want to come back to it as well. Waiting for the PR whenever you'll be free for it :)