4 ms·Thumbnail extraction on App Engine13 points by julien 14y agotantalor 14y agoWhy not return a 301 so this service could be used directly by web browsers?julien 14y agoI guess that could be an option. On our context, we would love to avoid that all browsers ask for the image url.tantalor 14y agoAgreed, it's not worthwhile to engage costly App Engine frontends for a memcache lookup. You could add (e.g.) varnish to cache the redirects.robertocr 14y agoWhy use BeautifulSoup when LXML is available on Google App Engine?julien 14y agoWell, that's what's used in the Reddit library which we took as a starting point... so we kept it :)