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    Link Preview Checker — See How Your Link Looks on Every Platform

    Paste any URL and see the title, description, and image each platform will show.

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    Check your link preview on a specific platform

    Each platform reads the same Open Graph tags but crops, truncates, and caches them differently. Open the checker for the app you are sharing in.

    How link previews are built

    Messaging apps and chat platforms scrape a URL's HTML head for Open Graph, Twitter Card, and oEmbed metadata, then assemble a preview card client-side.

    If those tags are missing, platforms fall back to the <title> and the first usable image they can find — often with poor results.

    Every platform reads the same core tags — og:title, og:description, og:image, and og:url — but each renders them differently: Slack and Discord show a full card with description, iMessage shows title and domain over the image, and WhatsApp usually crops the image to a small square thumbnail. Check the platform-specific pages below when a preview looks right in one app and wrong in another.

    Common use cases

    How teams put the Link Preview Checker to work.

    Content QA

    Verify previews look good before sharing in Slack, iMessage, or WhatsApp.

    Editorial workflows

    Confirm article metadata is correct before publishing or syndicating.

    Outreach

    Make sure cold emails and DMs render an attractive card every time.

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