How to clear Facebook Sharer cache?

Once during a while, you would possibly have noticed once you tried to share a news article from an external link into Facebook and realized that the auto populated data isn’t what it’s to be. To be precise, once you tried to share a link in Facebook, there’s no picture preview that’s imagined to be and sometimes the description, title isn’t an equivalent because it is.

This is the matter of caching mechanism in Facebook. This text provides some insights and comes up with an answer of the way to overcome this issue.

Facebook Sharing Debugger

• Go to the debugger tool: Sharing Debugger - Facebook for Developers.
• Paste the URL of your blog post / product page / webpage into the tool.
• Click Debug
• Click the "Scrape Again" button.
• Click "Fetch New Information".

Open graph is used for creating an all-around beautiful "introduction card" of a blog post, product page, or anything. As you recognize it pulls information just like the page title, image, and outline. It also saves on character limits with certain social media. Here is the way to confirm that each one your information is correct before posting to the world.

How does the Facebook Crawler work ?

You can use the Sharing Debugger to check the knowledge that’s used when your website content is shared on Facebook, Messenger and other places. The Batch Invalidator will allow you to refresh this information for multiple URLs at a similar time. Open Graph mark-up allows you to take hold over how your website content appears to others.

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