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Facebook link preview, no login needed

Meta's Sharing Debugger needs a Facebook account. Paste a URL here to see the Facebook card and test the image against Meta's documented minimum of 600×315, the 1.91:1 ratio and the 8 MB limit.

No signup, no Facebook login. We fetch the page the way a crawler does (HTML only, no JavaScript) and do not store the URL.

What Facebook needs

MinimumAspect ratioMax file sizeFormats
Facebook 600×315 1.91:1 8 MB Not documented

Values from the platform's own documentation, checked 2026-11-02 (all platforms: OG image size). Sources: · Meta for Developers: Images in link shares · Meta for Developers: Sharing for webmasters

Tags Facebook reads

Facebook link preview not showing or not updating?

  1. Changed the tags? Paste the URL into Sharing Debugger and press "Scrape Again" — Facebook caches the preview until then.
  2. Facebook caches images by URL: a new image needs a new image URL (a new file name or a query string), not the same address with new content.
  3. Below 600×315 the image is shown small or dropped; keep the URL absolute and the file under 8 MB.
  4. Allow facebookexternalhit in robots.txt and in your firewall or CDN bot rules.
  5. A "missing fb:app_id" warning in the Debugger does not stop the preview from working.

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Questions

Is this the same as the Facebook Sharing Debugger?

It reads the same tags and shows a close version of the Facebook card, without a Facebook account. It cannot clear Facebook's cache — only Sharing Debugger can make Facebook fetch the page again.

What size should a Facebook share image be?

Meta recommends 1200×630, documents 600×315 as the minimum and 8 MB as the file limit, with a ratio close to 1.91:1 to avoid cropping.

Facebook keeps showing my old image. Why?

Facebook caches both the page's tags and the image by URL. Re-scrape in Sharing Debugger and, if the image changed, publish it under a new URL.