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We need a proper icon to release a first version.

I think it'd make sense to implicitly append "http://" to URLs, otherwise it's not a great experience when typing URLs manually:

Social media sites' built-in share preview tools typically cache their opengraph previews, particularly images, but there usually is a button to force them to refresh / fetch the latest version. This is useful if you are actively working on improving the metadata on a website and are testing things with trial and error.

Would it be possible for this app to plug into those APIs to provide a Refresh button (when available)? If the refresh has a cooldown time limit for a particular site, the button could have a label (or GtkTooltip) that indicates that cooldown in real time while the button is in GTK "insensitive" status.

Any chance for Mastodon support in this?

The Discord chatting app supports scheduling events with fancy banners, have a look:

Is this a good fit for Share Preview?

Should it be possible to use this with a local app?

The top part of the window looks a bit cramped, I'd increase margins around and below the headerbar.

For example, here I added 6px on all sides, plus 6px top margin on the content:

1. Select Twitter from the list
2. Type some address and look at the preview
3. Quit
4. Reopen

Expected: It should remember my last selection and default to it.

Actual: It always reset to Facebook (the topmost selection.)

Version 0.2.0 via Flathub.

A share-preview.doap file is missing. Note that it has to have the same name/capitalization as the GitHub repository.

For the maintainer to appear in Apps for gnome it must be in the form

  <maintainer>
    <foaf:Person>
      <foaf:name>User Name</foaf:name>
      <foaf:mbox rdf:resource="mailto:[email protected]" />
      <gnome:userid>gnome-user-acc</gnome:userid>
      <foaf:account>
        <foaf:OnlineAccount>
            <foaf:accountServiceHomepage rdf:resource="https://github.com/"/>
            <foaf:accountName>user-github-acc</foaf:accountName>
        </foaf:OnlineAccount>
      </foaf:account>
    </foaf:Person>
  </maintainer>

The dark toggle button is currently inactive when in light mode, and active when in dark mode. That's a bit weird IMO, since the two views are semantically at the same level.

A potential alternative could be what Icon Library does, where the button doesn't stick but the icon changes between a filled and an outline sun.

For Open Graph it is an optional metadata, which only makes sense if the link you share is part of a larger website.

Maybe it should be an "Info"?

If you copy some URL and, instead of using Ctrl+V, you paste it into the URL field by doing "Right-click -> Paste", the GtkTextEntry will be defocused, and when you hit Enter:

• If there was no existing preview, nothing will happen.
• If there was an existing preview, the "Details" (currently a spyglass icon thingy) button below the preview will be activated, opening the details instead of launching the query.

Totally a corner case, but I thought I'd report it anyway ;)

After opening the "details section" (magnifying glass) twitter is not selectable anymore. This seem to be a bug ^^

Just as the title says, I would like to have multiple up at once

Thank you for this useful utility!

reddit.com support would be neat.

You can see an examples here

https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/os1rjd/oh_my_svg_visual_svg_optimizer/
https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/n4kgzi/commit_message_editor_gitmercurial/

The repository had "Social preview" setting enabled.

The app says “Card Error” when a page contains og: stuff but no twitter: stuff. Twitter falls back to opengraph when there’s no twitter card data on the page.

I don't know if there's a way to simulate this too, but it would be pretty nice to be able to preview what a link may look like when shared on a Discourse forum, because the way it previews tends to be very different from the rest of social media, and it has progressively become the most popular modern open source forum software (and that's what GNOME uses for its forums, like many other communities use nowadays).

Nice application!

For some reason the preview for https://www.eicas.nl currently doesn't load in the Signal desktop app. It would be really helpful if share-preview could detect what's wrong.

(earlier I found out the Signal desktop app doesn't load preview images for which the HTTP response doesn't have a Content-Length header - I haven't checked what's wrong this time yet)

Both Facebook and Twitter are bad at extracting perfectly valid metadata. The app should detect some such cases and display a warning to indicate that the markup might have compatibility issues.

I discussed some such issues in my article Why are Facebook and Twitter so bad at parsing RDFa metadata? A quick test-run and neither networks have improved on the discussed issues.

There's a size limit for images which can be turned into Twitter cards, specifically 5 MB. There are probably similar limits elsewhere.

It would be handy to have some sort of warning if this is a problem.

Minds share preview will be nice: https://www.minds.com

PS: Why X is still Twitter in the application?

I know i am asking for a lot here, but is it possible to add LinkedIn preview to this application. A great application, love to see it grow. Thank you.

Share Preview seems to display images with relative URLs, although Twitter does not support this.

Notice that the image isn't shown.

On Share Preview, it looks like this:

Where it shows the image.

As a solution, I'd make it warn the user when the website is using relative path, rather than a URL.

“Hm. There’s a search field at the bottom of the dialog. I wonder what it does. Oh, it shows more details and not search.”

Please consider picking a different icon (the circled i for information, perhaps) or just spell out “Details” or “<meta>” instead?

Version 0.2.0 via Flathub.

Would a Mastodon account be possible for this project?

The following things could then run on it:

• Project information
• Project announcements
• Interaction with the Fediverse community

I would love to see an option to download the image from a preview link. It could be in the files tab but would be more useful on the main page with the preview.

(also that text should probably not use .large-title)

Facebook, Reddit (#12), and Twitter supports WebP images in og:image (and twitter:image), but the app shows an o-slash icon instead.

It’s probably correct to show the o-slash and a warning for Mastadon as support varies depending on the ImageMagic version installed on each server instance (upstream issue #14983).

I get a crash every time when I try to preview https://cockpit-project.org/ or one of its blog posts, such as https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-244.html

I'm not sure if something is just wildly wrong with what I'm doing on website or if I just happen to triggering an issue in Share Preview. (Either way, Share Preview shouldn't crash.)

And also: thanks for this app! It looks very useful. I'm looking forward to finally fixing cockpit-project/cockpit-project.github.io#224 (it's been on my TODO backburner for quite some time), thanks to Share Preview.

Mastodon now seems to show bigger card images in some cases.

Tried to fix up a banner for flathub new site and my trusty tool is crashing :)

$ flatpak run com.rafaelmardojai.SharePreview

(share-preview:2): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:59:55.354: GtkText - did not receive a focus-out event.
If you handle this event, you must return
GDK_EVENT_PROPAGATE so the default handler
gets the event as well
thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Unsupported(UnsupportedError { format: Exact(WebP), kind: GenericFeature("VP8L") })', src/backend/image.rs:51:85
stack backtrace:
   0:     0x55776793a3bc - <unknown>
   1:     0x55776795f6cc - <unknown>
   2:     0x557767933663 - <unknown>
   3:     0x55776793cce2 - <unknown>
   4:     0x55776793c8c5 - <unknown>
   5:     0x55776793d333 - <unknown>
   6:     0x55776793d050 - <unknown>
   7:     0x55776793a864 - <unknown>
   8:     0x55776793cd89 - <unknown>
   9:     0x557767696571 - <unknown>
  10:     0x557767696663 - <unknown>
  11:     0x5577677193c4 - <unknown>
  12:     0x55776791b96f - <unknown>
  13:     0x55776791c9fa - <unknown>
  14:     0x7fa52d400cdb - g_main_context_dispatch
  15:     0x7fa52d4011e8 - <unknown>
  16:     0x7fa52d4012b4 - g_main_context_iteration
  17:     0x7fa52d5de3ed - g_application_run
  18:     0x5577676990f3 - <unknown>
  19:     0x5577676e3458 - <unknown>
  20:     0x5577676eb3a3 - <unknown>
  21:     0x55776772fac9 - <unknown>
  22:     0x557767939a70 - <unknown>
  23:     0x5577676eb6a2 - <unknown>
  24:     0x7fa52d0a1b80 - __libc_start_main
  25:     0x557767696d3e - <unknown>

There is low contrast with the metadata icon when using dark style:

I think messenger previews would be a good addition to share-preview

Signal

WhatsApp (don't remember it always being so bland, tried with different links but all look the same)

Please decide upon the translation platforms: Hosted Weblate or Transifex!

Recently I got emails about Transifex notifications, but there is just one file: share-preview_po-share-preview-pot--master_en.po. There are no translated languages!

On the other hand most translations exist at Hosted Weblate, which you specify in the section Translations of the ReadMe.md file.

My suggestion:
Get rid of Transifex! IMO, Hosted Weblate is better anyhow.

Cheers,
Milo

People have been steadily requesting keyboard shortcuts and other typing enhancements, but I wanted to go the other way.

When the text entry field is filled with a URL, there's no way to clear it quickly and easily with the mouse (no, Context menu → Select All; Context Menu → Delete does not count as quick and easy), should one wish to restore the initial blank canvas in preparation for future URL typing/pasting.

Something like Qt's QLineEdit.clearButtonEnabled, which automatically shows a clear icon at the end of the input area whenever it's non-empty, would be cool. Of course, GtkEntry doesn't seem to have anything quite so convenient, and you're already using that part of the widget to display the "Go"/"Submit" button... 🤷‍♂️

I keep pressing Ctrl+L, trained from browsers. Any sort of shortcut to focus the entry to achieve a reasonable focus driven control would be nice.