preview.thedrive.ai

Turn any URL into a preview image. PDFs, documents, slides, videos, code, and websites — just prepend the URL.

https://preview.thedrive.ai/{any-url}

No API key. No signup. No setup.

Quick start

<img src="https://preview.thedrive.ai/arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762" />

That's it. You get a JPEG thumbnail of the first page.

Live examples

Type	URL	Preview
PDF	arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762
Website	github.com
PPTX	dickinson.edu/.../sample.pptx
Video	w3schools.com/.../mov_bbb.mp4

Usage

HTML

<a href="https://example.com/report.pdf">
  <img
    src="https://preview.thedrive.ai/example.com/report.pdf"
    alt="preview"
    width="600"
    height="400"
  />
</a>

Next.js

import Image from 'next/image'
import Link from 'next/link'

<Link href="https://example.com/report.pdf">
  <Image
    src="https://preview.thedrive.ai/example.com/report.pdf"
    alt="preview"
    width={600}
    height={400}
  />
</Link>

Markdown

![preview](https://preview.thedrive.ai/example.com/doc.pdf)

Parameters

Param	Default	Description
w	600	Width (50-2000)
h	400	Height (50-2000)
q	95	JPEG quality (1-100)
nocache	false	Skip cache for fresh render

preview.thedrive.ai/example.com/doc.pdf?w=800&h=600&q=90

Supported formats (67+)

Category	Formats
Documents	PDF, DOCX, DOC, PPTX, PPT, XLSX, XLS, ODT, ODP, ODS, RTF, CSV
Images	JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, SVG, AVIF, HEIC, HEIF, BMP, TIFF
Video	MP4, MOV, WebM, AVI, MKV, WMV, FLV, 3GP, M4V
Code	30+ languages — Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java, C/C++, and more
Markdown	MD, Markdown, Mdown
Text	TXT, LOG
Websites	Any URL — rendered via headless browser

Features

• No API key required — just use the URL
• Social media cards — auto OG tags for Discord, Slack, Twitter, LinkedIn
• Caching — 24h server cache + 7-day browser cache
• Custom dimensions — any size from 50px to 2000px
• Fast — response time in headers (X-Response-Time)

Pricing

	Free	Pro ($19/mo)
Rate limit	30 req/min	120 req/min
Formats	All 67+	All 67+
API key	Not needed	Included
Support	Community	Priority
SLA	—	99.9% uptime

Get started | API docs | Contact

Use cases

• File managers — show document thumbnails
• CMS / blog editors — link preview cards
• Search results — visual thumbnails for indexed docs
• Chat apps — embed file previews
• AI tools — display retrieved documents visually
• Emails — inline document previews via <img> tags

Links

• Try it live
• API documentation
• Blog

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