With this browser plugin, you can check how the link previews of a website look like on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Just activate the plugin to see the preview snippets of every page you browse.
Heya Product Hunters!
We made this little browser extension for ourselves while creating placid.app a while ago.
We generate our share images for madewithvuejs.com and other sites automatically and wanted to have a quick way to check how our pages look when shared on social media!
The plugin has been available for Chrome first. We now have 400+ users and they seem to like it, so we thought weโd make a Firefox version as well and start telling people about it ๐
Itโs free โจ and shows you link previews for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. These are the most important for us, but please tell us if you miss a platform youโd like to check!
I hope youโll like it โ if you do please leave a rating in the browser stores ๐
Cheers,
Armin
Thanks for this tool @arminulrich & @_feloidea. Do you think it will be possible to add a download button or a way to bookmark previews? I collect a lot of open graph previews (especially on Twitter) and your extension will save me a bit of work.
@arminulrich@yesnoornext Glad you like it, Vincent! Nice idea - we didn't think of saving yet. Do you collect the previews for inspiration? We'll see what we can do ๐ช
@arminulrich@_feloidea Yes, for inspiration, I'm a big fan of media illustrations and according to me the open graph previews help to be selective and improve the content. Maybe it could be a premium feature, let me know if you'll do it.
Ha! Wish I had this the other day, would have saved me spamming my friends and myself while trying to see what my social share looked like! Great idea.
Nice idea! I was actually checking the previews for the pages of Women Make a few days ago, that would have been useful! Just installed it for next time ๐
Oh shoot I've had this installed for a bit now! I actually use it all the time and found it to be really well made.
I think it's a great idea. Also it's been really simple to use.
I think all developers have to set up their social share images at some point in their building process - this def makes that step easier!
I use this every day to make sure my social share images look right on my blog posts! Saves me so much time from having to inspect the page and dig into the head tags!
I also use https://placid.app to automate my Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest posts as well.
Placid