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Generating preview of posts on social media

This could be a fairly open question but I need to make posts to various social media websites such as facebook, twitter, linkedin, google etc. Now keep in mind that this is a true post and not just a share - in other words, I have stored the user credentials via OAuth and am going to make a formatted post to their wall, feed etc.

Question: Is there someway I can generate an exact or very close preview of the post on various social media? For example, can I show the user what their post will look like on facebook or google before they make the post?

I searched around the internet and all I could find is information about sharing.

I am using PHP, Javascript

Solution

  • You can read the Open Graph tags of the URL with JavaScript or PHP, for example: https://github.com/fiann/jquery.ogp

    You can put the tags together for a view, but you can never be 100% sure how it will look like, especially on Facebook.