The title for an inline onebox is bad (not that I’m saying it’s our fault):
Inline: Unsupported browser
source:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1nrWysWdrgPR0kBJ45z2aS?si=FurcwGpfSrWJBPGwKeCvDQ
Inline: https://open.spotify.com/album/1nrWysWdrgPR0kBJ45z2aS?si=FurcwGpfSrWJBPGwKeCvDQ
image (preview):
image (baked):
Do we need to update the browser version in the user agent our crawler is using? looks like we’re using Safari 14?
Visiting the URL manually in that Safari version:
We’re not consistent with user agents.
For the full onebox we use:
Discourse Forum Onebox v3.5.0.beta9-dev
and Spotify is fine with this and serves the full page:
○ → curl -s --user-agent 'Discourse Forum Onebox v3.5.0.beta9-dev' 'https://open.spotify.com/album/1nrWysWdrgPR0kBJ45z2aS?si=FurcwGpfSrWJBPGwKeCvDQ' | htmlq 'meta[property^="og:description"], meta[property^="og:site_name"], title'
<title>The First Symphony - Album by Indecent | Spotify</title>
<meta content="Spotify" property="og:site_name">
<meta content="Indecent · Album · 2024 · 12 songs" property="og:description">
<meta content="Spotify" property="og:site_name">
but for the inline onebox we use:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0 Safari/605.1.15
So that’s ultimately why we’re getting different behaviour, though I would still ask why we don’t use the opengraph properties here? Spotify is still serving those up despite being an unsupported browser:
○ → curl -s --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0 Safari/605.1.15' 'https://open.spotify.com/album/1nrWysWdrgPR0kBJ45z2aS?si=FurcwGpfSrWJBPGwKeCvDQ' | htmlq 'meta[property^="og:description"], meta[property^="og:site_name"], title'
<title>Unsupported browser</title>
<meta content="Spotify" property="og:site_name">
<meta content="Indecent · Album · 2024 · 12 songs" property="og:description">
<meta content="Spotify" property="og:site_name">
○ → curl -s --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0 Safari/605.1.15' 'https://open.spotify.com/album/1nrWysWdrgPR0kBJ45z2aS?si=FurcwGpfSrWJBPGwKeCvDQ' | htmlq 'meta[property^="og:"]'
<meta content="Spotify" property="og:site_name">
<meta content="The First Symphony" property="og:title">
<meta content="Indecent · Album · 2024 · 12 songs" property="og:description">
<meta content="https://open.spotify.com/album/1nrWysWdrgPR0kBJ45z2aS" property="og:url">
<meta content="music.album" property="og:type">
<meta content="Spotify" property="og:site_name">
<meta content="AR" property="og:restrictions:country:allowed">
…
<meta content="XK" property="og:restrictions:country:allowed">
<meta content="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273ff9434b9650f38d183e91fb1" property="og:image">