One API, every social image - dynamic OG, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube
The article discusses the challenges of creating social media images that fit various platform specifications. It highlights the need for multiple image sizes to ensure optimal display across different social networks. A new approach using a single HTML template to generate images for eight platforms is proposed, simplifying the process significantly.
- ▪Different social media platforms require images in specific dimensions for optimal display.
- ▪The traditional method of using a single image often results in poor presentation on some platforms.
- ▪The new approach involves using one HTML template to generate multiple image sizes dynamically.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 1045142) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Accreditly Posted on May 26 One API, every social image - dynamic OG, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube #webdev #productivity #tutorial #automation We were shipping one OG image per post. It was 1200 by 630. It was rendered server-side from a Blade template via Puppeteer. We were quite pleased with it.
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