MyMahi: Rich link previews for every Newsfeed post
How a learner-focused platform used by schools across New Zealand and Australia uses Microlink's Metadata API to turn every shared link into a cached, fast-loading preview card.
Supporting learning, wellbeing, and future pathways for students across New Zealand and Australia.
MyMahi is a self-management platform for learners. It puts students at the centre of their own story with tools for Digital Identity, a Digital Backpack to capture learning milestones, mentoring, wellbeing, and future pathways planning. The mentor dashboard is the backbone of the product, giving teachers a single place to connect with the learners they support.
The platform is used in schools and centres of learning across New Zealand and Australia, and was successfully assessed by Safer Technologies 4 Schools (ST4S) in 2024 — a national standardised review of digital products used by schools across both countries.
Microlink.io is the engine behind our Newsfeed previews. It provides the metadata we need to keep our platform visual and engaging, while giving us the flexibility to store and refresh data for maximum performance.
Rich link previews for every Newsfeed post
When a teacher or mentor shares a link in the MyMahi Newsfeed, the platform calls Microlink's Metadata API to extract the page's title, description, and preview image. The result is hydrated into a card students recognise instantly — the same kind of preview they'd expect from any modern app.
Metadata is stored in MyMahi's database as soon as it's fetched, so subsequent renders of the Newsfeed are served straight from their own infrastructure. A background job periodically refreshes those records, keeping previews current without re-scraping on every read. The whole loop runs without anyone on the team maintaining a scraper, a headless browser pool, or an unfurl service.
Reliable link previews without the maintenance
A small team supporting schools across New Zealand and Australia can't afford to babysit a metadata scraper. MyMahi reaches for Microlink for three reasons.
Ready to ship link previews?
Extract title, description, and preview image from any URL with a single API call. Cache the response and serve previews straight from your own database, the way MyMahi does.
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Thank you to the MyMahi team for letting us share their use case, and for choosing Microlink to power link previews across their platform.