link preview
Shared link snapshot
A link preview is the card-like summary that appears when you share a URL on social media or in messaging apps—typically showing a title, description, and thumbnail image pulled from the destination page.
The preview lets users see what they're clicking before they click: The link preview showed a misleading headline.
- thumbnailReduced preview image
- embedFix within surrounding material
- URLWeb location identifier
- metadataDescriptive information about content
- snippetSmall cut portion
card · image · share · share button · click · click through · hover · social · social media · unfurl · meta tags · webpage · title · description · fetch · scrape · Twitter · Facebook
- linkshyperlink, chain, connection, bond, tie
- messagingmessage, text, chat, send, reply
- iMessage featurestext message, group chat, emoji, sticker, read receipt