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Facebook Not Recognizing Metadata


I'm having trouble getting Facebook to recognize the og:image tag. It seems to scrape correctly, but then I get this warning:

og:image could not be downloaded or is too small 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://ericrovtar.com/images/logo/800x200_reverse.png' will be used instead.

Yet looking at the raw data from the debugger:

"image": [
      {
         "height": 1080,
         "url": "http://ericrovtar.com/images/posts/fitz-simmons.jpg",
         "width": 1920
      }
   ],

It's obviously seeing the proper height and width and they meet Facebook's minimum requirements, so I'm not sure what it's complaining about.

If someone could help me figure this out, that'd be great.


Solution

  • that's a common problem, and is reported as bug in the Developers Forum, now and then. It may be that your image is too big and fails to load (or is being loaded too slowly). The image recommended by Facebook is, right now 600x600 pixels, if I remember correctly, and still we can at times find that problem with the Facebook Crawler (it says that the image is too small even if the resolution and size are correct). You can find the bug report that's currently open, and subscribe if you want, here: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/294523810715538/