Website Links pasted into a Topic

[JammyDodger]

I’m afraid I don’t have in-depth knowledge of the inner workings, but the guide above has some tips on what information Discourse needs to be able to Onebox:

@sam

Once you’ve pasted the link, behind the scenes, onebox visits the destination page and checks for Open Graph or oEmbed tags, including:

• site address
• title
• feature image
• description (mandatory)
• product price

Please note that Discourse does require the description tag to be present and contain enough text to summarize the page, or the target link will not onebox.

And a couple of troubleshooting tips too:

@sam

Troubleshooting

If Onebox is not working as expected, please check the following:

• Test your site by pasting the link into iFramely ; check that the target is using correct OpenGraph or oEmbed meta tags for content. And remember the description text is required in Discourse!
• Verify that the onebox request to the target website has not been blocked by user-agent . Some WordPress hosts frequently block “unknown” user agents.

How do they stack up compared to your existing metadata?