How to choose the image that is loaded after pasting a link in Facebook?
If I post a link to a website on Facebook, an image is rendered beside it.
How does facebook decide which image to load from my site?
Is it possible to control what image is displayed? Can I set this somewhere, maybe in the meta tags?
html facebook metadata
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If I post a link to a website on Facebook, an image is rendered beside it.
How does facebook decide which image to load from my site?
Is it possible to control what image is displayed? Can I set this somewhere, maybe in the meta tags?
html facebook metadata
edited Nov 21 '18 at 19:58
yivi
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asked Nov 21 '18 at 8:54
BlackBlack
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Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/1138460/…
– misorude
Nov 22 '18 at 7:26
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If I post a link to a website on Facebook, an image is rendered beside it.
How does facebook decide which image to load from my site?
Is it possible to control what image is displayed? Can I set this somewhere, maybe in the meta tags?
html facebook metadata
edited Nov 21 '18 at 19:58
yivi
5,43872655
asked Nov 21 '18 at 8:54
BlackBlack
4,6971050114
If I post a link to a website on Facebook, an image is rendered beside it.
How does facebook decide which image to load from my site?
Is it possible to control what image is displayed? Can I set this somewhere, maybe in the meta tags?
html facebook metadata
html facebook metadata
edited Nov 21 '18 at 19:58
yivi
5,43872655
asked Nov 21 '18 at 8:54
BlackBlack
4,6971050114
edited Nov 21 '18 at 19:58
yivi
5,43872655
asked Nov 21 '18 at 8:54
BlackBlack
4,6971050114
edited Nov 21 '18 at 19:58
yivi
5,43872655
edited Nov 21 '18 at 19:58
yivi
5,43872655
edited Nov 21 '18 at 19:58
yivi
5,43872655
5,43872655
asked Nov 21 '18 at 8:54
BlackBlack
4,6971050114
asked Nov 21 '18 at 8:54
BlackBlack
4,6971050114
asked Nov 21 '18 at 8:54
BlackBlack
4,6971050114
4,6971050114
Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/1138460/…
– misorude
Nov 22 '18 at 7:26
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Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/1138460/…
– misorude
Nov 22 '18 at 7:26
Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/1138460/…
– misorude
Nov 22 '18 at 7:26
Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/1138460/…
– misorude
Nov 22 '18 at 7:26
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Facebook (and other companies after FB proposed this standard) uses the Open Graph Protocol to gather information from your page.
If you provide the relevant meta tags within your <head> tag, e.g.:
og:title- The document's title
og:type- The document's type
og:image- An image URL to represent your document (this is the bit you are interested in)
og:url- The canonical URL the document.
For the image meta tag:
<meta property="og:image" content="https://example.com/pony.jpg" />
It will use the information in these tags to populate the post. Other online and messaging services and will also use this information if present.
If the OGP meta tags are absent, FB (and other services) will crawl the URL and try determine as best as they can which image should be used instead.
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Facebook (and other companies after FB proposed this standard) uses the Open Graph Protocol to gather information from your page.
If you provide the relevant meta tags within your <head> tag, e.g.:
og:title- The document's title
og:type- The document's type
og:image- An image URL to represent your document (this is the bit you are interested in)
og:url- The canonical URL the document.
For the image meta tag:
<meta property="og:image" content="https://example.com/pony.jpg" />
It will use the information in these tags to populate the post. Other online and messaging services and will also use this information if present.
If the OGP meta tags are absent, FB (and other services) will crawl the URL and try determine as best as they can which image should be used instead.
answered Nov 21 '18 at 19:56
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Facebook (and other companies after FB proposed this standard) uses the Open Graph Protocol to gather information from your page.
If you provide the relevant meta tags within your <head> tag, e.g.:
og:title- The document's title
og:type- The document's type
og:image- An image URL to represent your document (this is the bit you are interested in)
og:url- The canonical URL the document.
For the image meta tag:
<meta property="og:image" content="https://example.com/pony.jpg" />
It will use the information in these tags to populate the post. Other online and messaging services and will also use this information if present.
If the OGP meta tags are absent, FB (and other services) will crawl the URL and try determine as best as they can which image should be used instead.
answered Nov 21 '18 at 19:56
yiviyivi
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Facebook (and other companies after FB proposed this standard) uses the Open Graph Protocol to gather information from your page.
If you provide the relevant meta tags within your <head> tag, e.g.:
og:title- The document's title
og:type- The document's type
og:image- An image URL to represent your document (this is the bit you are interested in)
og:url- The canonical URL the document.
For the image meta tag:
<meta property="og:image" content="https://example.com/pony.jpg" />
It will use the information in these tags to populate the post. Other online and messaging services and will also use this information if present.
If the OGP meta tags are absent, FB (and other services) will crawl the URL and try determine as best as they can which image should be used instead.
answered Nov 21 '18 at 19:56
yiviyivi
5,43872655
Facebook (and other companies after FB proposed this standard) uses the Open Graph Protocol to gather information from your page.
If you provide the relevant meta tags within your <head> tag, e.g.:
og:title- The document's title
og:type- The document's type
og:image- An image URL to represent your document (this is the bit you are interested in)
og:url- The canonical URL the document.
For the image meta tag:
<meta property="og:image" content="https://example.com/pony.jpg" />
It will use the information in these tags to populate the post. Other online and messaging services and will also use this information if present.
If the OGP meta tags are absent, FB (and other services) will crawl the URL and try determine as best as they can which image should be used instead.
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Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/1138460/…
– misorude
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