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Apr 29, 2019 01:02 PM
Hi,
I’m sharing a form on social media where we’re asking for sign ups. It currently shows the Airtable image and logo and “Airtable: Organize anything you can imagine” in the Link Preview on Facebook and Twitter, but that doesn’t show the user an accurate picture of what’s in the link. Is there a way to customize the Twitter card/facebook mark up language so our own content appears in the link preview?
Thanks,
Kristin
Apr 29, 2019 05:26 PM
Welcome to the community, Kristin! While I haven’t directly done what you’re looking to do, my gut feeling is that you need to insert a level of separation into the process. Instead of directly sharing a link to an Airtable form, embed the form into a webpage, then share a link to the page. I believe that FB/Twitter both look for images in pages when building previews, so you’ll need to design your page in such a way that FB/Twitter will pick up the image/branding what you want. Again, that’s just a hunch. I’ve not delved that deeply into customizing shared content, so it’ll take some additional research to find out how to optimize the page for that.
May 01, 2019 05:10 AM
This is handled through the Open Graph API, a special set of meta tags in the HTML. I think Airtable should use at least the og:title
from the name of the Form.
@Justin_Barrett’s suggestion is the best way right now, and if you use some CMS like WordPress, it’s easy to customize the OG tags:
Jul 09, 2021 04:32 PM
Oof this still hasn’t been added as a feature on Airtable
For Airtable devs: it’s super easy to replace the with a few custom tags — so that your Form’s title, cover photo and logo could replace the page’s title, cover image, and favicon. It takes like an hour to implement tops but adds a ton of value