Facebook error when pulling og:image

NakakapagpabagabagHm picture NakakapagpabagabagHm · May 25, 2018 · Viewed 13.6k times · Source

For whatever reason, the image that I'm trying to use when sharing a link on FB doesn't load. The exact error that's being given is this:

Provided og:image, could not be downloaded. This can happen due to several different reasons such as your server using unsupported content-encoding. The crawler accepts deflate and gzip content encodings.

I'm using an s3 bucket to hold my images, and as far as I'm concerned the bucket is public and I can load these images on any browser. I'm also adding the og:image, og:image:url, og:image:secure_url, og:image:height, og:image:width, and og:image:type to the meta tags, so as far as meta tags are concerned I think I've covered all grounds. Is there a particular setting that I should be adding? Thanks of any help

Answer

LordParsley picture LordParsley · Jul 12, 2018

For other people who end up here, I encountered this issue temporarily. The Facebook Sharing Debugger fetches images asynchronously and can give false 404s.

I recommend scraping again a couple of times to confirm.