Twitch Previews – Wrong Image

  • Resolved Fahrenhe1t

    (@fahrenhe1t)


    4 years, 5 months ago

    Hi! I installed this plugin to show previews to twitch.tv channels. When I use the beautiful link shortcode to add the preview, it shows the TWITCH logo and a description of the TWITCH website, not the actual profile picture of the user.

    For example, if I use https://www.twitch.tv/pokimane in Facebook Open Graph Debug or Twitter Card Validator, it shows a valid preview with the streamers profile pic. However, if I enter this into Beautiful Link Preview, it shows only the TWITCH logo. Is there any way to get Beautiful Link Preview to show the correct image? Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author zeitwesentech

    (@zeitwesentech)

    thanks for coming back to me. I just had a look at these links and it turns out that twitch does not provide the actual profile picture of the user in the og nor twitter card tags (e.g. see https://www.heymeta.com/url/www.twitch.tv/pokimane to verify). seems that twitter and fb use different techniques/apis to retrieve the profile picture when a twitch link is found.

    not a bug, works as expected

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