While sharing the following URL on LinkedIn I found that LinkedIn is not taking title and description so thought to run debug tool so that it will correct this issue but it's not. Also, like feature is not working for this URL.
https://swertresresult.ph/
And after running debug, it is showing error
Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can. Go Back
This issue is only with this URL.. Similar URL is this (mybridaldresses.pk/bridal-mehndi-dresses-pakistani-designers-2018/) which is working perfectly.
Is there any other way to solve this issue?
While sharing on LinkedIn, you can determine which title, description and image will appear. To achieve this, your pages must contain some meta tags.
The following tags that must exist on your page.
<meta property='og:title' content='Title of the page"/>
<meta property='og:image' content='http://yourdomain.com/test.jpg"/>
<meta property='og:description' content='Description of the page"/>
<meta property='og:url' content='http://www.example.com/URL of the article"/>
Also, there are some limitations for images. Maximum image size is allowed is 1 MB. And smaller images from 80x150px will not be accepted.
For one of my websites I am using Open Graph to enrich posts shared from my website. But LinkedIn is not picking the image specified in og:image. The image is modified for the LinkedIn bot to be 200px X 200px by a simple PHP script.
I found some experiencing a similar problem (Linkedin not getting thumbnail image) but this problem is not yet solved.
I know it's old but this helped.
Linkedin caches link preview content for 7 days. You have to do the following to clear Linkedin Preview cache:
Step 1: Visit https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/inspect/
Step 2: Enter your url and click on Inspect, You will see the updated preview image
Step 3: Now try sharing your url on Linkedin
You might need to check linkedin post cache and refresh it for a specific link.
https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/
This question is a bit old but I ran into the same situation and got it solved so I just post my solution( or my understanding how it work) for others have the same problem.
(Thank you for #Justin Kominar, his answer in this question helps me.)
Make sure you have prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns# in your tag, when you have iframe(s), make sure which page is calling the share function.
Make sure you set all four <meta> tags in you site and give the correct type to <meta property="og:type> (please go to ogp.me for more information)
Make sure you pass the correct url(the one you want to share, eg.https://news.com/this_news) to <meta property="og:url> especially when you use dynamic url
In the page you pass to og:url ( it is very important to understand linkedin will go to this page to look for the information not the page you call the share function, most of the time they are the same but sometimes that is not the case), you need to do step 1 and 2, set <meta og:image> AND MAKE SURE THE IMAGE LINK IS VALID AND THE IMAGE DOES EXIST
Hope it will help.
I faced with wrong image choosing by LinkedIn in my WordPress site. I found the problem by discovering URL by LinkedIn post inspector and saw that oEmbed tag was used dispite og:image tag is existed:
Does your code look like this?
<html prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#">
<head>
<meta property="og:title" content="My Shared Article Title" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Description of shared article" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://example.com/my_article.html" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://example.com/foo.jpg" />
</head>
<body>
…
</body>
</html>
Also, check the documentation here:
https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/share-on-linkedin
Also, check your URL with Facebook Linter (it works with all OG tags):
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
Adding a garbage parameter at the end of my link, helped me force linkedin to get og:image again.
I found my solution on this post
Per #checkTek's comment, LinkedIn does not support .webp images for the og:image property.
Try to 1000x425 image. It works for me.
This answer is for the people who tried all the methods described in the above answers and still got no luck !!
I had this scenario and I fixed it by renaming the og:image.
I believe image with long name can trick the linkdin to prevent the image from scraping.
before the tag was
<meta property="og:image" name="image" content="images/meta-this-is-a-very-long-name.jpg">
I fixed this issue by renaming it to a smaller name.
<meta property="og:image" name="image" content="images/meta-image.jpg">
voila.. it worked !!
Warning - i'm using JavaScript
Check step
First of all, you have to check if your website/blog have all the meta tags correctly puted on tag of your HTML document. You can do this by just puting your website link on
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug and debugging.
But if you just get the wrong image no matter what on Linkedin post inspector but not on Facebook debugger (both use open graph tags) the problem is the Linkedin. So if this you can continue here.
My problem and the solution
I have my images on AWS, so i use 2 different links, one is for the service, the other is the link of the image.
The problem with Linkedin, is that he cannot read two URLs. So you have to encode properly.
My service is somenthing like this
https://d1muf25xaso8hp.cloudfront.net/[IMAGE_URL]?options
Now, you gonna see an example. I have a function that just get this two together. Take a look:
Example:
// The service -
https://d1muf25xaso8hp.cloudfront.net/[IMAGE_URL]?options
// Function Input -
https://s3.amazonaws.com/appforest_uf/imageID/200x200.png
// Function Output -
https://d1muf25xaso8hp.cloudfront.net/https%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fappforest_uf%2Ff1643682361025x516549218825449500%2F200x200.png?w=&h=&auto=compress&dpr=1&fit=max
The function
const resizeS3Image = (s3_url) => {
let s3_clean_url = s3_url;
s3_clean_url = s3_clean_url.replace(/\//g, '%2F').replace(/\:/, '%3A');
const cloudFrontCompressedImage = `https://d1muf25xaso8hp.cloudfront.net/${s3_clean_url}?w=&h=&auto=compress&dpr=1&fit=max`;
return cloudFrontCompressedImage;
};
Things you may have notice
The second URL (the image) have some things replaced, like the slash ('/') and colon (':'), for the equivalent code on URL encode.
2 - How i did it ? using regex pattern and the .replace native JS constructor.
Tools and references that i used
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp
Remind to
When you're debuggin again your website on the Linkedin Post inspector, remind to add after the URL somenthing after '?' like https://yourwebsite/post/what-is-lorem-impsum?aaaa=912093090
That way, you gonna update the Linkedin SEO Cache.
I was using the LinkedIn Post Inspector and it wasn't finding my image. However, Facebook Debugger was showing it. Both platforms use Open Graph (OG).
In my case, the issue that was causing this to happen were spaces in the original image name (replaced in URL with +)).
This worked:
https://images.mywebsite.com/abc/name_of_image.png?auto=compress,format&rect=0,0,3600,1890&w=1200&h=630
This was failing:
https://images.mywebsite.com/abc/Name+of+Image+-+Test+-+4.png?auto=compress,format&rect=0,0,3600,1890&w=1200&h=630
For me the problem was the image size. Once I increased the size from 300px wide to 1200px wide it worked.
For LinkedIn:
The maximum file size allowed is 5MB.
The minimum image dimension should be 1200px X 627px.
https://dev.to/samuelorobosa/how-to-handle-linkedin-and-twitter-link-previews-23eg
However, the post inspector was finding smaller images around 750MB. So the true value is somewhere between 300:1200
p.s. gifs work on linkedin but are a single still frame on twitter
<meta property="og:url" content="http://localhost:8821/EventRegister.aspx" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Welcome and Share Test" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Hope it worked!!!!!!!" />
I am developing an asp.net project and wanted to put a facebook share button in it. I wrote that code in head /head part and then started the debug mode and tried the link:
https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://localhost:8821/EventRegister.aspx
But all I got is a empty share page with no title or description only just the localhost link in description.
How can I make it work? I want customizable title, image, description like in the above code. I have been looking for it for 2 days non-stop.
Thanks...
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UPDATE:
<a onClick="window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s=100&p[title]=sfgsfgsfg&p[summary]=sdgsdgsdg&p[url]=http://localhost:8821/EventRegister.aspx','sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=548,height=325');" href="javascript: void(0)">Click to share.</a>
did this and still same result :(
Yes it is working after I created a free host on myasp.net... :) Do not debug any facebook code on localhost as it won't work because facebook cannot access to your local machine unless you have some workarounds.
I have read How to integrate Facebook's Open Graph in a Meteor application? and followed it closely, however, the og tags are still not registered):
I would just like to set several images to ensure that several thumbnails appear when u type http://bubble.meteor.com in facebook
Here are my codes:
(Updated)
<head>
...
<meta property="og:image" content="http://bubble.meteor.com/img/ogimage1.png">
<meta property="og:url" content="http://bubble.meteor.com">
<meta property="og:title" content="Emory Bubble">
</head>
Am I doing anything wrongly? Thanks!
First of all, an <html> tag does not belong inside the <head>. Meteor always uses the HTML5 doctype definition. Even if you would manage to change it to XHTML, you will probably end up with invalid XHTML, because extension packages that inject HTML assume HTML5.
Second, there is no need to declare any namespace for the OpenGraph tags. Strings like "og:title" are just opaque data inside a property and they do not affect the HTML parser.
UPDATE
I checked it using Facebook's debug page and it does not work indeed:
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
This yielded an "Error parsing input URL, no data was scraped" error.
I also checked the page using the special escaped fragment URL that should trigger the spiderable package:
http://bubble.meteor.com/?_escaped_fragment_=
The resulting page contains no HTML content and the Javascript tags were still present, suggesting that the spiderable package does not work. Did you add that one to your project? (meteor add spiderable).
If you added it, it does not work. The spiderable package returns the normal page if running PhantomJS fails. You should check it on your local development version, use the above URL to trigger spiderable.
I also noticed that you are using 'school' as og:type, which is not a valid type as far as I know. Try 'website' instead.
UPDATE 2
Also checkout this screencast by Chris Mather about the spiderable package:
http://www.eventedmind.com/posts/meteor-the-spiderable-package
In this screencast he mentions a potential problem with subscriptions that are never marked as ready and make the spiderable package fail. Maybe this is causing your issues?
All links for one of my domains now returns "Error Scraping Page: Bad Response Code" in fb linter. Any ideas why this would happen?
Here's an example of just one of the links that fb will not parse.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dnbradio.com%2Farchive%2F
I'm using Simple Facebook Connect (WP Plugin) all the while, and I realized these few days it didn't work properly such as when I posted a link on my Facebook's Fan Page, the thumbnail went missing. I then checked the link using Facebook's debug tool, it showed me the same error message as yours.
After reading http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph, I realized the plugin does not generate tag for fb:admins (Or maybe it is a new rule from FB recently?). What I did is to manually change sfc-base.php in SFC, and added in the line <meta property="fb:admins" content="USER_ID1,USER_ID2"/>. And now the error message has gone away.
Hope this helps.
I had the same error, but when I corrected on all pages number facebook app( &appId=YOURKEY ) to once (previously I had two) problem disappeared.
Check this line in code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml" xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/">
Sorry for English.
Check that your application does NOT send any custom headers to the client.
Mine was sending such a header, which caused this same problem.
My header was:
header("X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block");
And yes, does your tag have the required namespace declarations?
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns# xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">