Open Graph Image API

A runtime service to return optimized Open Graph images from a URL. Works with:

1. <meta name="og:image:secure_url">
2. <meta name="og:image">
3. <meta property="og:image">
4. <meta name="twitter:image">

Usage

URLs have the formats:

/:url/
/:url/:size/
/:url/:size/:format/
/:url/:size/:format/onerror/

• url must be URI encoded.
• size (optional) can be small (375×_), medium (650×_), or auto (keep original width)
• format must by an output image format supported by Eleventy Image (auto is supported)

/:url/onerror/
/:url/:size/onerror/
/:url/:size/:format/onerror/

• Appending the string value onerror to any valid URL format will return empty content (no default image) if an opengraph image is not found at the target URL. This will trigger <img onerror> in the browser which you can handle on the client (e.g. <img onerror="this.remove()"> to remove the image).

Demos

Advanced: Manual Cache Busting

If the images aren’t updating at a high enough frequency you can pass in your own cache busting key using an underscore prefix _ after your URL.

This can be any arbitrary string tied to your unique build, here’s an example that uses today’s date.

/:url/_20210802/
/:url/:size/_20210802/
/:url/:size/:format/_20210802/