# Onebox Does Not Display - iFramely Passes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-does-not-display-iframely-passes/116694
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [5월 2, 2019, 1:49오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-does-not-display-iframely-passes/116694 "2019-05-02T13:49:51Z")
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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [5월 2, 2019, 5:35오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-does-not-display-iframely-passes/116694/2 "2019-05-02T17:35:23Z")

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My guess is you are having your crawl rejected (and this is happening here on meta too).

But I have a solution, but it’s not 100% free:

> [@"Onebox Assistant", crawl for those previews reliably!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-assistant-a-plugin-to-help-onebox-do-its-job/107405):
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> What it does Turns this kind of result: (where your server has failed to bring back the page source so cannot extract the required tags to build the onebox) Into this!: It simply provides an alternative path for onebox to get its page source with which to look for meta-data when the target server refuses your connection. It …

I just tested this on two of my sites, one equipped with the plugin, and one without, and it works on the one equipped.

My pleasure! 😉

One of the issues here is that Discourse/Onebox could be a heck of a lot more transparent about the way it handles a failure. I guess that’s a stretch feature, but it would be nice if there was more feedback to the user pasting the link (or even just the admins).

I checked my /logs on the site which failed and do not see any extra information wrt to the failed preview …

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