URL Description and Thumbnail API [closed]

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
• PageGlimpse: http://www.pageglimpse.com/
• Websnapr: http://www.websnapr.com/premium_services/

Answer 2

ShrinkTheWeb seems to have a lot of positive comments from their service. They also have a free plan.

Answer 3

If I understand the question properly he is looking for a image from the site (rather than a thumbnail of the site).

There is an awesome implementation of this, very similar to facebook, here: http://redsunsoft.com/2011/01/parse-link-like-facebook-with-jquery-and-php/