Hey guys, first time posting here. I’m a frequent visitor on a Discourse-based forum (from page source it looks like it is 3.2.0.beta1-dev, I have no idea what the current latest version is), and I was disappointed to see that Artstation links have no preview. Artstation pages seemingly have all the necessary meta tags, and Discord & Facebook have previews for them, but not Discourse. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xDol3X This is what I see in the preview pane for the above link: [image]

This doesn’t look like a bug. If you read the error, the website is denying your access (of your server). You could try my onebox assistant plugin to see if that helps.

The screenshot is from THIS forum. It’s probably the same for every Discourse forum out there. Interestingly, on this forum there IS preview for Twitter posts: [image] The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor Want to know the difference between the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Romans? Just look at their statues. Art always tells you what a society wants to believe about itself. So, from the Soviet Union to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, here's what art says about who we are... pic.x.com/TWgtvTN6Ed[image] 10:26 PM - 19 Jul 2023 70K 12K while there isn’t in the forum I come from. Wonder what that’s all about.

[image] Juris: The screenshot is from THIS forum. So it’s denying Meta too.

Yeah, but why tho? Is the onebox metadata loaded server-side, not client-side?

Yes, it’s loaded server side. btw, just tried it with onebox assistant and it wasn’t much help. Checking with the proxy service, they are also being denied: [image] So not even the experts on proxy calls are getting past them!

Great. What else can be done about this? Seems like a rather weird thing to block - why would you have meta tags on your website if you can’t get to them in order to display a preview? Could it be the request headers that are causing this? Although seems doubtful because I tried making a request from Postman and it came through fine.

Contact them directly to ask them. Contact a proxy service and find out if they can get around it, then use that proxy service. I’ve already shot an email to embed.rocks for point 2.

Contact who? Artstation, Instagram, and Twitter? :smiley: Ain’t no way in hell I’ll get a meaningful reply. This is more than likely not caused by them.

Getting around these restrictions needs serious experience and expertise, and I don’t have the time to learn that niche of Information Technology, so you need to rely on those who spend all day doing it: ie a proxy service. I’ll let you know if I get a response from Embed.rocks, then you could use my plugin. Some websites force you to use registered embeds with a key.

Can you check what headers you’re sending when generating a onebox?

Missing preview for Artstation links

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merefield (Robert) August 24, 2023, 10:23am 17

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