Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Likedin sharing urls / not parsing open graph

Likedin sharing urls / not parsing open graph

The Linkedin documentation can be found here
As it says, it needs:
og:title
og:description
og:image
og:url
Here is an example of my wordpress blog source code that for simplicity I
use Jetpack plug-in:
<!-- Jetpack Open Graph Tags -->
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Starbucks Netherlands Intel" />
<meta property="og:url"
content="http://lorentzos.com/starbucks-netherlands-intel/" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Today I had some free time at
work. I wanted to play more with Foursquare APIs. So the question:
&quot;What is the correlation of the Starbucks Chain in the
Netherlands?&quot;. Methodology: I found all the p..." />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Dionysis Lorentzos" />
<meta property="og:image"
content="http://lorentzos.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/starbucks-intel-nl-238x300.png"
/>
I Facebook it works great, or you can see the meta data here. However
LinkedIn is more stubborn and doesn't really parse the data even the If
you're unable to set Open Graph tags within the page that's being shared,
LinkedIn will attempt to fetch the content automatically by determining
the title, description, thumbnail image, etc.
I know that I don't have the og:image:width tag but Linkedin doesn't even
parse title, description or url. Any ideas to debug it?

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