Image preview embed for Discord et. al. about shotshare HOT 7 CLOSED

The reason that the changes above don't work is that they rely on javascript injecting the tags. Most metdata scrapers don't render pages, they just fetch the base HTML and look for tags.

This PR should do what's needed: #62

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Spent a fair bit of time testing on this, no matter what meta tags I tried, I was not able to get Discord displaying these images from the shot view, will revisit this soon though and see if I can figure it out.

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Even <meta property="og:image" content="[image link]"> ?

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Indeed @EmberHeartshine, here's some of the tags I tried.

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I'm not familiar with vue formatting, is the colon before content removed when processing for the client?

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I'm not familiar with vue formatting, is the colon before content removed when processing for the client?

Correct, : indicates an expression as opposed to a static value

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The reason that the changes above don't work is that they rely on javascript injecting the tags. Most metdata scrapers don't render pages, they just fetch the base HTML and look for tags.

This PR should do what's needed: #62

Good catch and thank you for opening a PR!

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