A macOS command-line utility for fetching link previews and metadata from URLs:

• Extract metadata (title, URL, image) from web links.
• Render visual link previews as PNG images.
• Cache results for faster subsequent lookups.
• Return details as JSON.

Via Homebrew:

brew install xenodium/rinku/rinku

rinku --preview https://soundcloud.com/shehackedyou

Returns:

{
  "preview": "path/to/preview.png"
}

rinku https://soundcloud.com/shehackedyou

Returns:

{
  "title": "she hacked you",
  "url": "https://soundcloud.com/shehackedyou",
  "image": "path/to/preview.png"
}