Thumbnail extraction on App Engine

Posted by julien on Monday June 11, 2012 @12:04PM
from the github.com dept.

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Re:Thumbnail extraction on App Engine by tantalor on Monday June 11, 2012 @12:35PM (#4095459)

Why not return a 301 so this service could be used directly by web browsers?

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Re:Thumbnail extraction on App Engine by julien on Monday June 11, 2012 @02:04PM (#4095917)

I guess that could be an option. On our context, we would love to avoid that all browsers ask for the image url.

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Re:Thumbnail extraction on App Engine by tantalor on Monday June 11, 2012 @03:30PM (#4096411)

Agreed, it's not worthwhile to engage costly App Engine frontends for a memcache lookup.

You could add (e.g.) varnish to cache the redirects.

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Re:Thumbnail extraction on App Engine by robertocr on Monday June 11, 2012 @03:30PM (#4096415)

Why use BeautifulSoup when LXML is available on Google App Engine?

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Re:Thumbnail extraction on App Engine by julien on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @12:19AM (#4098745)

Well, that's what's used in the Reddit library which we took as a starting point... so we kept it :)

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