By Meagan Hooper on Saturday, 31 December 2016
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Hello,

Images are not populating in your stream or comments for external links from Amazon.

Example:
https://www.amazon.com/Alterna-Bamboo-Weightless-Whipped-Mousse/dp/B004ROW4ZO
https://www.amazon.com/Elchim-Healthy-Ionic-Ceramic-Dryer/dp/B01I23HXXS/ref?th=1

*Our members do a lot of e-commerce sharing of products and things to purchase.

Do you know why images from Amazon are not showing up?

Thank you!
Hello Meagan,

It seems like Amazon is generating a different output altogether when scraping the contents and we do not have the opengraph data from Amazon to embed those links. Will see if there is a way for us to work around this.
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Saturday, 31 December 2016 15:09
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Thanks, Mark.

Maybe expand your parameters for detecting meta tags relating to images and then give the user the option for which image to populate? (Next/Prev in thumbnail)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2987195/how-does-facebook-know-what-image-to-parse-out-of-an-article

Does this code help:

$imageUrl = $url . $imageUrl;
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Saturday, 31 December 2016 23:22
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Hello Meagan,

We actually do that The problem is Amazon displays output differently for Facebook parsers and displays differently for other browsers. We just need to identify the output that is provided by Amazon and parse them differently.
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Sunday, 01 January 2017 15:59
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Hello Mark,

I wanted to check-in on this since images from our joomla articles are not displaying.

Perhaps you could update the code to search for: .jpg, .jpeg., .png., .img, etc and then provide the Prev/Next option for what we want to populate?

There are several main news websites where the images do not display in Easy Social.

Best,

Meagan
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Thursday, 26 January 2017 01:24
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Hello Meagan,

It depends really on the source of the page. If the page has opengraph tags, it will be able to scrape that information.
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Thursday, 26 January 2017 12:12
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