The link column fetches the HTML title and in card view even more information. While this info is fetched and visible in the UI anyway, there is no way to access it.
Would be cool if this information is accessible e.g. via
Link.title
Link.image
Related topic:
https://community.coda.io/t/extract-title-from-url-in-text-format/29409/7
Are there any ways of doing this at all at the moment? I’d ideally like to access thumbnail images as an image/imageurl column
Thumbnail images?? Can you explain what you mean?
I’m also looking forward for this feature. We’re collecting external links in a table and would like to extract the description of the link and translate it in another column with the Google Translate pack.
Yes please! I would use this immediately
In case it helps anyone, I do have a free Pack in the gallery called “Web Page Metadata” that lets you get the title, icon, and other information from a URL:
This doesn’t use the same backend system that Coda does, so the results may vary.