Social share preview generator

Free meta tags scraping API to generate social share previews for given links to visualize how they'll appear on social media apps like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

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What is a social share preview generator?

Our free social share preview generator tool allows users to generate a preview of how their website, blog post will appear when shared on social media.

It helps optimize content, image and heading for better engagement and visibility on social platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter(now X), Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Whatsapp.

How to add meta tags on your website for social media preview?

You can insert the open graph meta tags , or twitter cards on your website head section for social preview. For example -

<meta property="og:title" content="Short link genertor">
<meta property="og:url" content="https://idm.in/">
<meta property="og:image" content="https://idm.in/static/logo.png">
<meta property="og:description" content="Free short link generator and analytics tool">

Adding these meta tags to your website help social media crawlers to generate accurate previews when the link is shared.

What is the recommended image size for social media?

The recommended image size for social media preview is 1200 x 630 pixels. And here are the platform wise recommendation -

Twitter
  • Recommended image size: 1200 x 675 pixels
  • Aspect ratio: 16:9
  • Maximum file size: 5 MB
  • Supported formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF
Instagram
  • Feed post image size: 1080 x 1080 pixels
  • Aspect ratio: 1:1
  • Maximum file size: 30 MB
  • Supported formats: JPEG, PNG
Facebook
  • Recommended image size: 1200 x 630 pixels
  • Aspect ratio: 1.91:1
  • Maximum file size: 4 MB
  • Supported formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF
LinkedIn
  • Recommended image size: 1200 x 627 pixels
  • Aspect ratio: 1.91:1
  • Maximum file size: 5 MB
  • Supported formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF

How to troubleshoot link previews for social media posts?

If your website doesn't appear correctly when shared on social media, it may be due to caching. Social media platforms often store previously shared content, which may not reflect recent changes to your website. You can use the above social preview generator tool or debug individually using the below official links -

  1. Twitter Card Validator
  2. Facebook Open Graph Debugger
  3. LinkedIn Post Inspector
  4. Pinterest URL Debugger

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