URL Description and Thumbnail API

Question

Does anyone know of an API that will return the description of a URL and a thumbnail image from that URL?

What i'm looking for is something similar to what facebook does where you paste in a link and it returns the page title, description and image.

I was hoping one of the URL shortening services did this, or even digg, but so far no luck.

Answer 1

• bluga webthumb: http://webthumb.bluga.net/home
• Girafa: http://www.girafa.com/
• PageGlimpse: http://www.pageglimpse.com/
• scURLr: http://www.scurlr.com/com.boxysystems.scurlr.Main/Main.html
• Websnapr: http://www.websnapr.com/premium%5Fservices/