Forum thread OG image template

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These are real renders from the API with the example values in the table below. Switch the size above: the same template lays itself out for all 6 sizes — send size or sizes with the request.

For forums, Q&A communities and support boards that want a card per thread. The badge appears only when solved is yes, at most three tags are shown, and an asker without a photo gets their initial. Long titles shrink to fit and the excerpt is cut at two lines on wide frames. Wide and square frames put the vote counter beside the bubble; vertical frames move it above the bubble and give the question the full width.

Fields

Every field is optional. Long text shrinks to fit instead of overflowing; an image field takes a public URL that we fetch on our side.

Render it with one request

Use the slug as template. The response holds the URL of the finished PNG; ?wait=true keeps the connection open until it is ready.

curl -X POST "https://shareglint.com/v1/images?wait=true" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "template": "forum-thread",
    "modifications": {
        "title": "How do I keep a Postgres advisory lock alive across queue retries?",
        "excerpt": "The worker takes the lock, the job fails and retries on another worker, and the lock is gone. Is there a pattern for this?",
        "author": "maria.dev",
        "community": "Northwind Community",
        "votes": "128",
        "replies": "14",
        "tags": "postgres;queues;laravel",
        "solved": "yes",
        "solved_label": "Solved",
        "avatar": "https://example.com/images/avatar-woman2.jpg",
        "logo": "https://example.com/images/logo-m.png"
    }
}'

Or paste a signed URL into og:image

For static sites, Webflow, Shopify and no-code tools: put the fields in the query string and sign it with your signing secret. The first request renders the image, every later one is a redirect to the cached file. How to compute the signature.

<meta property="og:image" content="https://shareglint.com/i/acc_YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID/forum-thread.png?author=maria.dev&community=Northwind%20Community&excerpt=The%20worker%20takes%20the%20lock%2C%20the%20job%20fails%20and%20retries%20on%20another%20worker%2C%20and%20the%20lock%20is%20gone.%20Is%20there%20a%20pattern%20for%20this%3F&replies=14&solved=yes&solved_label=Solved&tags=postgres%3Bqueues%3Blaravel&title=How%20do%20I%20keep%20a%20Postgres%20advisory%20lock%20alive%20across%20queue%20retries%3F&votes=128&s=YOUR_SIGNATURE">

Make it yours

accent and theme change per request. For anything more, copy the template into your account: you get an ordinary HTML template with the same fields that you can edit in the dashboard or through the API. If the slug is free on your account, the copy takes it — your integrations switch to your version without changing a line.

curl -X POST "https://shareglint.com/v1/templates/library/forum-thread/copy" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_YOUR_KEY"

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