Open Graph is a protocol that allows you to customize a generated preview data when you share a link on social networks.
Important: Social Media Preview is available starting from the Pro plan.
Most important tags:
og: title — page title;
og: type — the type of page content;
og: image — the path to the cover image;
og: description — text description of the page will be displayed below the image;
og: URL — link to the page.
To setup Social Media preview
1 Go to your Short.io account.
2. Shorten a link > Click Social Media.
3. Specify the needed tags.
4. Save.
How to check if Open Graph Works
Facebook provides a mini service Sharing Debugger to check how the link's preview looks after you've added Open Graph settings.
By pasting the link to the address bar and clicking "debug," you will see all the information that Open Graph pulled to display the link in social networks.
How to force link preview refresh
Certain platforms, such as Meta and LinkedIn, allow you to force refresh link preview data by using their native debuggers.
In case it is not possible to refresh the preview, you can trigger it manually in one of the two following ways:
By changing the short link slug
By adding any query to a short link, for example:
?a=b
short.link/test?a=b