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How to make a custom LinkedIn share button using POST

I would like to use my own image for the LinkedIn share button. I've been following the information on this previous post:

How to make a custom LinkedIn share button

It's noted here that: To create a custom Share button for LinkedIn, you need to make POST calls now.

I've read the Linkedin documentation however I don't understand how to incorporate the POST call with my HTML page. Could someone help explain it to me please?

I've initially tried to use this URL which i understand is now not supported by LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=articleUrl&title=YourarticleTitle&summary=YourarticleSummary&source=YourarticleSource

It partially works! The image, title and summary are all incomplete or not what I have specified in the URL, however if I click on the LinkedIn post it does actually link to the right page.

Is there anyway of getting this working?

Many thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5319

Answers (1)

HoldOffHunger
HoldOffHunger

Reputation: 20891

Let's take a quick glance at the Official LinkedIn "Making Your Website Shareable on LinkedIn" Documentation. The URL format should be...

https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url={url}

And to have it use the other parameters, such as image, etc., set your og: tags in the HTML of the link you are sharing, like so...

  • <meta property='og:title' content='Title of the article"/>
  • <meta property='og:image' content='//media.example.com/ 1234567.jpg"/>
  • <meta property='og:description' content='Description that will show in the preview"/>
  • <meta property='og:url' content='//www.example.com/URL of the article" />

Upvotes: 1

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