Looking to set up a Twitter product card integrated through Shopify -- while the product info is populating in the validator preview and the got confirmation that the card was approved, there is no next step available. The help article that shopify provided instructs to use "catalog view" as next step however I haven't been able to access. Any insights?
https://docs.shopify.com/manual/configuration/store-customization/social-media/twitter/taking-advantage-of-twitter-cards
EDIT: If you're already able to view the proper card in the validator tool, then all that's left is to tweet out a link and see if it works!
--
It looks like Twitter has changed their Card Application & Validation pages since that Shopify article was written.
According to https://dev.twitter.com/cards/types/product, just copy and paste this code into your twitter-card snippet, and update it with your information.
<meta name="twitter:card" content="product">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="#iHeartRadio">
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="#iHeartRadio">
<meta name="twitter:domain" content="iheart.com">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="24/7 Beatles — Celebrating 50 years of Beatlemania">
<meta name="twitter:image" content="http://radioedit.iheart.com/service/img/nop()/assets/images/05fbb21d-e5c6-4dfc-af2b-b1056e82a745.png">
<meta name="twitter:label1" content="Genre">
<meta name="twitter:data1" content="Classic Rock">
<meta name="twitter:label2" content="Location">
<meta name="twitter:data2" content="National">
Once you've done that, you can go back to the Validator Page (https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator) to check that everything works the way it should.
Related
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="#nytimes">
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="#SarahMaslinNir">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Parade of Fans for Houston’s Funeral">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="NEWARK - Thenter code heree guest list and parade of limousines with celebrities emerging from them seemed more suited ">
<meta name="twitter:image" content="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/02/19/us/19whitney-span/19whitney-span-articleLarge.jpg">
I have used all the above meta tags, but still the image appears only as a summary card rather than displaying a summary card with large image.
I've been testing your code on a test page, html only. Everything worked fine for me. Here is also the Tweet generated with only the meta tags inside.
Looks to me more, there are other problems inside the html that might cause wrong interpretation of your meta tags.
The Card validator is displaying my summary card correctly, however, when I actually try to share it buy clicking the "twitter-share-button" it does not display a twitter card, it only shows a regular tweet.
This what the validator says:
Your site is whitelisted for summary_large_image card
INFO: Page fetched successfully INFO: 18 metatags were found INFO:
twitter:card = summary_large_image tag found INFO: Card loaded
successfully
These are the tags I'm using:
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="#username">
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="#username">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Some Title">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Some description.">
<meta name="twitter:image" content="http://example.com/images/dog.jpg">
This is the html:
<a class="twitter-share-button"
href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Testing Testing Testing">
Tweet</a>
For anyone strugling with tyhe same issue, I'm responding to my own question.
Here's what I found out:
1. First off, keep in mind that the card only shows in the final posted Tweet - not in the Tweet composer window. However, in my case, it wasn't showing in the final posted tweet either.
2. You have to include the link to the page you want to share after the text parameter. Additionally you need to encode its URL value. So, instead of text=http://example.com use text=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com. If you go to http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp you can make this encoding convertion automaticaly.
3. I've been told that sometimes there is a delay as twitter's crawler caches your site, which would explain why the card doesn't show in the final posted tweet in your fist attempts to share it. In my case it took 48 hours, after which, clicking the share button will post the card immediately.
Hope this my be helpful to someone else...
I'm working on a site whose front end is in angularjs and backend in ROR , Same ROR API is used in an android app also . Now I have a situation here . I need to share my Web's post on the Social media like facebook , twitter and google plus . And along with the link to the single post there should be a small preview also (a preview of the post which crawls before posting e.g in facebook) .I did it using angular Plugins . But when it comes to Android side , what they share and what displays on Facebook is the Link only . Then i did some R&D and i came to know that it must be done on server side with social media meta tags . I did a little bit but it still no works . I'm stuck on it . Below is what i've done so far .
def show
#post = Post.find_by_permalink(params[:id])
respond_to do |format|
format.html
format.js
end
end
In My views posts/show.html.erb
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title> Shared Question</title>
<meta property="og:title" content="My Page" />
<meta property="og:description" content="A description of my page." />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.example.com/images/my_lovely_face.jpg" />
<!-- etc. -->
</head>
<body>
Here is the body
</body>
</html>
I just need to show a small preview whenever some user share my web post's link on any media
You are correct, you need to implement special open graph (and other) tags for the customized social sharing functionalities.
Keep in mind that e.g. facebook will cache your page.
So you may try https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ to test your code without caching - the code itself looks fine.
Example Code:
Place this code between <head> and </head> with your other meta tags.
<meta property="og:title" content="Title">
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Name">
<meta property="og:url" content="URL">
<meta property="og:description" content="Description Text">
<meta property="og:type" content="article">
<!--- network Specific -->
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="AppID">
<meta name="twitter:card" content="app">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="#FernerJohannes">
If you want to target Twitter specifically here are their card-guidelines:
https://dev.twitter.com/cards/getting-started
You may also want to checkout: Open Graph validation for HTML5
You can set a custom image for you website to be shown in fb posts -
Add the OG XML to your html tag
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:fb="http://ogp.me/ns/fb#">
Add these meta tags to set the custom image that OG will use
<meta property="og:image" content="url_to_image" />
You can try reading this for more insight.
Hopefully this helps.
This is the current twitter card data I have inside <head>
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="#tradukka">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Currency exchange: United States Dollar (USD) - Argentine Peso (ARS)">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Currencies exchange updated in real time: United States Dollar (USD) - Argentine Peso (ARS) / 1 USD...">
<meta name="twitter:image" content="http://tradukka.com/meta/359ac65be829e896c12a3126fa9c71d0.jpg">
<meta name="twitter:image:width" content="750">
<meta name="twitter:image:height" content="370">
<meta name="twitter:url" content="http://tradukka.com/currency/usd/ars">
If I send a tweet with that link, all the information is being shown in the tweet, except the image:
I also tried using the card validator:
...it fetches everything except the image.
Also, I already tried using twitter:image:src as well. The domain is whitelisted. Any ideas on why the image is not being displayed inside the tweet?
The issue was caused by robots.txt. Make sure that the twitter bot is allowed to crawl the directory containing the twitter images (in this case, /meta).
I am also facing the same problem.
The solution is just switching from summary card with large image to summary.
To apply this you have to edit the script
"meta content='summary_large_image' name='twitter:card'"
as
"meta content='summary' name='twitter:card'"
This solves the problem, but I don't know why the large image type cards are not working.
I have a product which has 3 pages:
http://www.example.com/myproduct
http://www.example.com/myproduct/more
http://www.example.com/myproduct/images
I want to add a product twitter card:
<meta name="twitter:card" content="card">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="#mytwitter">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="My Product Title">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Product Description goes here...">
<meta name="twitter:url" content="http://www.example.com/myproduct">
<meta name="twitter:image" content="http://www.example.com/product.jpg">
<meta name="twitter:data1" content="$3">
<meta name="twitter:label1" content="PRICE">
<meta name="twitter:data2" content="San Franscisco, CA">
<meta name="twitter:label2" content="LOCATION">
What I want to achieve is that the product image, description, price, and location should be shown from all 3 pages when the user shares any of the pages.
My questions is how can I achieve this, and is it better to use <meta name="twitter:url" content="http://www.example.com/myproduct"> for all 3 pages, or use the canonical url of each page.
In order to display the same Product Card for any of the three pages of your product, all you have to do is simply making sure you provide the same markup tags on all of them.
In fact, you don't even have to specify any twitter:url tag in Twitter Cards. The URL the user will be redirected to when clicking is automatically the one that has been shared in the Tweet.