I have a web page that I am trying to share on LinkedIn but keep getting the same "Oops! Its not you..." error message.
The URL I am using for sharing is https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle/?mini=true&url=[myURL] My URL is valid and works just fine when i run it through Post Inspector https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/
All the necessary og tags are specified and I never had any issues sharing my pages through the above link before. I have already tried to talk to LinkedIn Helpdesk and was advised to ask here.
Thanks in advance for your help.
This error message is actually a 100% generic error message from LinkedIn. It displays when they have too much traffic and users try to login, look at news, post content, etc., etc.. According to NewsWeek, 2019, March...
Some LinkedIn users were reporting issues with the professional networking website on Wednesday. The issues were appearing on Down Detector and users were tweeting about the problems as well....
Some users saw a message that said "We're getting things cleaned up. We'll be back soon," while others saw a message that read, "Oops! It's not you. It's us. Give it another try, please."
This seems to have been sometime before your post. But it could be a likely cause.
If you're unsure, test your URL in the LinkedIn Post Inspector: this tool tells you how LinkedIn decides to build the preview for your website while sharing in LinkedIn.
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We run a website from where users can share pages on LinkedIn using the basic sharing URL https://www.linkedin.com/cws/share?url=https://THE_URL.
This worked without any problems for years, yet recently we are facing problems that we cannot explain. Some of our URLs can be shared, while others, pointing to very similar pages, fail.
All of our sharable pages are served from the same infrastructure, same servers, same setup, same TLS certificate, rendered from the same application, etc.
As an example, I attached screenshots for two pages, which are basically identical, except from a few very small details.
While https://open.sap.com/courses/fg1 can be shared,
Screenshot: A "Create a Post" widget on LinkedIn with correct page preview
the almost identical page https://open.sap.com/courses/fg1-1 can not be shared, the sharing widget shows an error:
Screenshot: A "Create a Post" widget on LinkedIn with error message in preview area
Additionally: since a while, both pages - fg1 as well as fg1-1 - cannot be opened in the LinkedIn Post Inspector - this worked earlier, there was no notable change on our side.
The error message in the post inspector says (for the page where actual sharing in the widget works):
Ingestion Feedback
Error We encountered a server error while trying to inspect the URL.
URL redirect trail
1 0 undefined https://open.sap.com/courses/fg1
Summarizing: I am quite confident that this is not an issue caused by our infrastructure or the application - otherwise I would expect that all pages resulted in the same error when sharing.
Does anyone else face this issue or did so in the past and found a solution?
Note: it feels a bit odd to post this question here instead of filing a support ticket, but I was told that this would be the way to reach out.
Sorry for this rather basic question, but we have the "social-media-auto-publish" plugin installed on our village website, and it was publishing to Facebook absolutely fine a while back. But then some new procedures on Facebooks end came into play, and it doesn't appear that the posting is working anymore. I have asked Facebook, but they simply said that they cannot help, and I should ask here instead.
When I try to connect the app, I get the below message back
Invalid Scopes: pages_read_engagement, pages_manage_posts. This
message is only shown to developers. Users of your app will ignore
these permissions if present. Please read the documentation for valid
permissions at:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions
Now, we are a village (not a business) but am I right in thinking that only a business has access to these capabilities now? Or is 'Business Verification' actually a much more open thing for non-businesses to use?
Thanks for any advice you can give,
Dan
I'm looking for an easy way to share through LinkedIn without all that hassle with OAuth 2.0 which I don't see required when I see other pages that use this kind of sharing (and they didn't required anything from - I can straight out share).
Straight to the issue:
this one works: https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frefair.me
this one doesn't: https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frefair.me%2Fjob%2F494
Seems like beyond main domain I can't get sharing working. For instance from other site a link that goes deeper and is still shareable: https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://bulldogjob.pl/companies/jobs/2043-programista-java-warszawa-bms-sp-z-o-o&title=Programista+Java&summary=&source=https://bulldogjob.pl
I also tested with and without source and summary query params. Anyone had that issue?
LinkedIn uses the Open Graph protocol (http://ogp.me/) to determine how pages are shared in LinkedIn.
You may also use the LinkedIn Post Inspector (https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/) tool to debug how various pages would be shared in LinkedIn.
I decoded your URL so I could get a cleaner look...
https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https://refair.me/job/494
So, let's try to visit your URL: https://refair.me/job/494 . The webpage you are sharing DOES NOT LOAD.
Is your site down for everyone? Yes, your site is down for everyone.
In order to share a URL on LinkedIn, you must fulfill the following minimum requirements:
The URL must load.
If you just want to test out the API, try using wikipedia.org or google.com as test pages.
Surprisingly, the old refair.me URL by itself works fine in LinkedIn, but that could be from some internal cache, from way back in the day when the page once did work. It certainly does not do so anymore.
For some reason sharing links on LinkedIn from my client's site does not work.
I've checked the specifications on https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/46687/making-your-website-shareable-on-linkedin?lang=en and it looks like all the og meta tags re correct. Sharing on other social media works without problems. It's only on LinkedIn where the Open Graph data is not picked up.
Here is a sample URL which does not work on LinkedIn:
https://nomadandvillager.com/bestemmingen/kenia/mbara/vrouwenbesnijdenis/
Am I missing something?
Would you be able to share a bit more on how you're getting the tags to render on Facebook and the like?
I encountered the same problem (My site runs on Angular), but my approach was to redirect the LinkedInBot via .htaccess.
Eventually, I gave up, and wrote a custom share button with LinkedIn's rest API
With it, you will be able to specify the details of the share, and avoid the messy workarounds for LinkedIn.
Direct Sharing on LinkedIn
Sharing via REST API
Original link: http://blog.crazy.technology/post/Clash-of-Clans---How-to-use-the-Web-API-570dd2b2
I'm trying to make my website shareable on LinkedIn.
URL : https://www.jedecouvremercator.com/
My website is W3C validate. I have followed all the LinkedIn recommendations and Google recommendations. My Open Graph meta is correct and the website is shareable on all other platforms.
But when I'm trying to share it on LinkedIn or when I use a custom link to share it, LinkedIn can't display the meta information.
(I always use garbage into the URL to kill cache before verifying my changes).
Can somebody tell me why?
Thanks a lot.
The site in your URL is down, and you didn't post any code, so that makes this difficult, but not impossible. I can still view your URL through archive.org, and when I try to share the archive.org URL, like this...
https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20190618064744%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.jedecouvremercator.com%2F
When I click the above, everything works perfectly fine for me. Example:
If you need more info: Official LinkedIn Documentation for Formatting URL and Official LinkedIn Documentation for OpenGraph Tags and Prefilled Sharing.