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pawel
pawel

Reputation: 6136

How to specify a thumbnail when sharing to Facebook?

I ave embedded youtube video on my CodeIgniter page, i'm using official youtube embedding code: 

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/msHFJhMqaKI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>

But when I try to share my page into facebook, i have no thumbnail, is there a tag or something what can help me with sign my video as future facebook thumbnail?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2118

Answers (1)

chhameed
chhameed

Reputation: 4446

yap you should add the meta tags in your head portion 

<meta property="og:image" content="http://siim.lepisk.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/siim-blog-fb.png" />

after adding meta tag you can check what facebook scrap from your page

facebook linter

here is some other meta tags that will be helpfull

<meta property="og:title" content="The Rock"/>
<meta property="og:type" content="movie"/>
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/rock.jpg"/>

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Upvotes: 2

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