I have an image link with only image. I would like to share it through Fb, either messenger or comment. However, the image only shows for awhile before stop loading. In scraper, it appears broken image. On other places, an soulless white background. Any suggestion on how to overcome?
What I see:
When the image shows, FB scraper warns that it can't download (Could not retrieve data from URL.)
When the images dies, FB scraper warns about og:tag or can't download.
I would like it to only be image, and not website.
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I am developing a website ( https://last-mail.org ) and am trying to hook it up to Facebook's Open Graph API to have nice information and an image show when people share it on Facebook.
However, Facebook keeps complaining that something is wrong with my image:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=last-mail.org
telling me that Provided og:image could not be downloaded or is not big enough. Please use an image that's at least 200x200px and is accessible from Facebook. Image 'https://last-mail.org/images/forgetmenotlogo5.png' will be used instead.
I know:
The image is 1200px x 900px
I've tried both .jpg and .png formats
I've tried hosting it on the https:// (private_html) part of the site, as well as on the http:// (public_html) part of the site
It does show up in the previews on the OpenGraph debugger tool page.
Browsers have no problem with displaying the image.
Why is this image rejected? How can I fix this?
How does Facebook choose a preview image when the og:image tag is invalid? A friend and I were curious why a Facebook preview image didn't show up in the article — when we ran the URL through the Facebook debugger, it provided the following information.
Provided og:image could not be downloaded or is not big enough. Please use an image that's at least 200x200px and is accessible from Facebook. Image 'http://lostoregon.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/foodcarts.jpeg' will be used instead
Tangent: Running the debugger once appears to clear Facebook's cache, and on the next run Facebook grabbed the correct (since fixed?) image.
The one part of this I don't understand is: How did Facebook chose the http://lostoregon.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/foodcarts.jpeg image to use instead? When I look at the original page, foodcarts.jpeg isn't shown anywhere, which means either
Facebook has some secret sause for chosing from images it's seen before
Facebook picked an image that was on the page at the time, but is no longer there
Something else I'm not considering
Is this default image picking defined, deterministic behavior? If so, how does it work?
the error you describe is common enough, and the image may be all right, but Facebook probably has issues downloading it (it's too big). What happens when the image isn't good is that the get a cached representation of you page, and use the image you provided back then. If Facebook crawls many urls, and there's no image on your site, or there's no cached image, the system will pick the one you use more frequently (on all pages). At least, that's what I have seen.
Hello i have a wordpress blog with open graph tags generated by jetpack. My problem is that some times facebook cant pull article image and facebook linter warns me about:
og:image could not be downloaded or is too small
Give this to facebook linter tool
http://www.radioevros.gr/2014/05/sobaro-troxaio-ston-notio-kombo-tou-soufliuo/
It will grab the image but the warning is still there , sometimes the image is not pulling.
Image hotlink protection is off and image is bigger than 200x200.
Thanks
Whenever I share a link from my site on facebook, I get a small thumbnail image of the product, and a title and description. I upload my own, bigger photo (1200x630) (that is the recommended size) to the shared link, and I still get small thumbnail images.
Why can't I get a large image when I share a link? On other business pages, I see it all the time.
I got it to work once, but then, using the exact same process, I tried again, and it went back to the small thumbnail.
Thanks,
Chad
The site I am working on is on WordPress.
I am trying to create a picture gallery now but I would like that each image will have its own URL and social buttons.
It means that you will be able to see an image, like it, see it posted on your wall with the correct thumbnail and redirect to the correct page in the gallery again.
I tried with the simple WordPress gallery and with NextGEN gallery, until now. Unfortunately I didn't get a good result yet.
Here is what I could do with NextGEN until now:
Gallery Main Page
Gallery Image Page
Problems I have there:
When I like an image, the thumb that appears in Facebook is wrong.
Same about the redirection URL from Facebook that takes me to the main gallery instead of the specific image that I liked.
Same with Twitter.
This is the code I am using on the image pages:
http://jsbin.com/ujahex/watch
Many thanks!