Wrong attachement description is used

moody1337
(@moody1337)

8 years, 4 months ago

Hey guys,

noticed today, that shared posts to google+ are using the wrong attachement description. Pls have a look at this post: https://plus.google.com/b/102990488150293674446/+WihelDe/posts/PvmaF9sFxtu

As you can see, there is still “Martin” written, which is the author of the post.

And here is the exact same post, shared by another tool: https://plus.google.com/b/102990488150293674446/+WihelDe/posts/8pUbbsFnecZ

As you can see there, now the correct description is used. So I guess its not a problem by any meta-tag or something else but related to the plugin and how it gets its information.

Plugin Version: 4.1.4 (API Version: 4.2.0)

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Plugin Author NextScripts
(@nextscripts)

8 years, 4 months ago

SNAP does not set image, title and description of the shared links.
Facebook (LinkedIn, Google+) sets this info by itself using your OpenGraph(OG) metatags.

Please see here for more info:
https://www.nextscripts.com/tutorials/facebook-posts-with-attached-link/

Thread Starter moody1337
(@moody1337)

8 years, 4 months ago

I’m not talking about Facebook, but Google+. And as I described, using another tool the description is correct. So why is SNAP not able to fetch it also in a correct way?

Plugin Author NextScripts
(@nextscripts)

8 years, 4 months ago

The link above explains that SNAP is not fetching anything. Google+ sets this info by itself using your OG metatags. Facebook is there just as an example Google+ uses OG metatags as well as Facebook, LinkedIn, telegram, Vk.com and almost any other social network.

Thread Starter moody1337
(@moody1337)

8 years, 4 months ago

And again: why is Google fetching correct information from the SAME website by using another tool and wrong information from the SAME website when using SNAP? I tried it also with a third tool, exactly the same behaviour: only posting via SNAP delivers a wrong information.

So in the end: only posting by SNAP creates a problem, any other tool works as expected. The logical outcome: its a problem by the plugin …

You can also try to check the tags on the website https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wihel.de%2Fdan-patlansky-dog-day%2F and https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/?hl=de#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wihel.de%2Fdan-patlansky-dog-day%2F -> no problems.

Would be great if we can leave standard answers behind us and look into the problem directly.

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