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noonespecial
Thats really cool. How bout letting me specify more params like size?
flippyhead
Sure! To finish it quickly I kept it simple. Also, it's somewhat expensive to get the results so cost is a factor.
edouard1234567
Based on their "linear" pricing you'll get charged a penny every 5 requests. If can charge less as your cache hit ratio increases...
tmchow
This is unique and useful. +1 for letting me specific size and aspect ratio
slig
Really nice! What API are you using?
flippyhead
Yep, Bing. Mostly because of how it's priced.
samirahmed
any chance you will opensource the code? or is it already up somewhere (github)
flippyhead
Sure. I need to clean up a few things first.
tkahn6
I really would like to use this but it seems like it's getting hammered right now.

Edit: seems to be working now

flippyhead
Sorry, you caught it mid-deploy. OK now.
r4vik
seems a lot like jpg.to http://optimus_prime.jpg.to/
flippyhead
heh, never heard of that til now. Sweet!
navs
Ah this one actually works. Thanks. I just wasted a good hour placing the nicks of every one in the irc channel I frequent into jpg.to. Hilarity ensued. Productivity diminished.
TazeTSchnitzel
Wait, since when could hostnames have underscores?

EDIT: Hey, IDNs seem to work! http://café.jpg.to/

EDIT 2: Or maybe not. http://schlüssel.jpg.to/

(Schlüssel means "key" in German. Google Image Search it and you get pictures of keys. Search for "Schlussel", though, and you get that girl. So presumably it searched for the punycode, something like --schlussel-blah.)

EDIT 3: Wait. the IDN for "Schlüssel" is xn--schlssel-95a. If I Google that, I don't get pictures of Ms. Schlussel. It must be decoding it and stripping the accents? That said, searching for schlssel does yield pictures of her.

EDIT 4: café is --xn-caf-dma. Google Image Search "caf" won't find cafés. Nor will "--xn-caf-dma". So it must understand IDNs but strip or be accent-insensitive

nolok
They always could have underscore. But beware of browser issues (cookies will fail in IE - at least pre 9 versions, for example).
TazeTSchnitzel
Well, thing is hostnames are supposed to only contain letters, digits and hyphens, although other DNS names can contain underscores. So it shouldn't work. You should be able to have a TEXT record with an underscore, but really shouldn't be able to have an A or AAAA record.
imechura
In this case optimus_prime is a sub domain. The actual DNS entry is likely *.jpg.to so DNS does not have to know how to resolve the URI section with underscore.
TazeTSchnitzel
I'm not sure wildcard entries are actually a feature of DNS, I thought they were something done server-side by the DNS server.
pfig
One word: Scribblenauts mashup.
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city41
Looks like you're filtering NSFW words over to a picture of a pipe?

An interesting spinoff would be memes. Something like http://mebe.co/goodnews/I_just_fixed_the_build.jpg and it generates this: http://i.imgur.com/UR8Gbzb.jpg

and yes memes are trite/overdone/whatever, but there's a lot of people out there that use them.

flippyhead
Yes! I love the idea of being able to find images that actually include the text you want. Even better if the image itself is relavent.
city41
Actually I meant have it generate a meme image from the text you provided. Like all the other meme generators out there, but much more simple.
flippyhead
I also thought it would be handy to get the most relavent image given a URL, much like what happens when you paste a link into a facebook post; attempting to find the "logo" on the page or the high-res apple icons.
fixxer
I'm happy to know I'm not the only one who tried searching for porn with this.
nikhilsaraf9
seems like a great idea! wondering if you could plug this into comments on facebook where you could have your own such images embedded into text, like custom emoticons (or make the like like an @mention where its a word and a link to an image at the same time). Great stuff!
flippyhead
Yeah, that's a big part of the motivation. Though facebook doesn't render the images inline, just pulls them out into a preview-type thing
joel_perl_prog
Review the copy on your blog page explaining the project. You have a sentence with "use have" in it, and one sentence begins "Bring," where I think you meant "Bing." =)
bkyan
What does mebeco stand for?
flippyhead
Since my main use case was ease of use when using chat applications (like Campfire), I wanted a super short domain. I was actually pretty surprised a four letter pronounceable domain was available.
tlrobinson
Suggestion: use CloudFlare to cache images at the HTTP layer so multiple requests for the same URL never even hit your app servers.

CloudFlare + PaaS providers like Nodejitsu/Heroku is a great combination, IMHO.

Amfy
Oh, yes, please! Actually none of the images are loading...
RKearney
CloudFlare will close your account if you are only using it to serve up assets like this unless you're paying for the $200/month Business plan.
wizard_2
Please explain this, I'm not sure what kind of activity you're talking about.
level09
why the jpeg part ? would be nicer without adding that extension
flippyhead
You can use any extension you want. Or none.
oakaz
The pictures are really shitty. Please use Pinterest rather than Google Images.
mullr
Any particular reason you need to proxy the data through your own server? Seems like a 302 to the original image url would be quite a lot easier and more scalable.
[dead] vivekrp
I don't know why, but it's not loading. It's showing Nodejistu error page. I just checked jpg.to, it's cool. Went to http://webcreatorsin.jpg.to and It's showing our company WebCreators.in logo, so cool.
underwater
I ran a very similar site a while back. The Bing API costs can get expensive quickly. You probably want to cache the results.
bowerbird
love it.

is it ok to generate traffic aimed at it? maybe lots of traffic. (probably not, especially at first, but maybe, so i thought it would be polite to ask.)

-bowerbird