discourse-onebox-assistant
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🎯 Best for:Forums struggling with broken external link previews
What is discourse-onebox-assistant?
A Discourse plugin that routes onebox preview requests through a third-party API. It solves the issue of external sites blocking the forum server's IP address during link scraping.
Tech Stack
RubyCommunity & Events
Why discourse-onebox-assistant?
- • Bypasses bot detection
- • Improves UI consistency
- • Configurable API endpoints
Limitations
- • Requires 3rd party API key
- • Dependency on external service
- • Slight latency increase
6/19/2025
Last Update
4
Forks
1
Issues
GPL-2.0
License
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on Iframely)
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
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