XF 2.2 Unfurling URL from IMDB not bringing in description meta data

[Mouth]

Looking back at HYS for Unfurling, it says that page description is also brought in. Is that still the case? And assuming it uses <meta name="description" for this content?

When including an IMDB URL for unfurling, the page description is not shown ..

Ripley (TV Mini Series 2024) ⭐ 8.1 | Crime, Drama, Thriller

1h | TV-MA

www.imdb.com

<meta name="description" content="Ripley: With Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning, Johnny Flynn, Margherita Buy. A grifter named Ripley living in New York during the 1960s is hired by a wealthy man to bring his vagabond son home from Italy." data-id="main"/>

 

[Jeremy P]

Yep, but we prefer the Open Graph description if it’s set as that’s typically what it’s there for. Most all platforms do the same:



IMDB just happens to fumble this:

<meta property="og:description" content="1h | TV-MA"/>

 

[Mouth]

IMDB just happens to fumble this:

Perhaps an ACP option to enter/identify domains for unfurl in which we can set that HTML title/description can be used rather than OG meta?

 

[Jeremy P]

To be honest, it's doubtful we'll ever support that in the core. By setting the og:description, IMDb is explicitly requesting that be shown in lieu of the original description. Posting the same link to Discord, Slack, Facebook, Twitter, etc. yields the same behavior. If they wished the series description to be shown instead, they should fix that for all platforms by making changes on their end.

 

[Mouth]

If they wished the series description to be shown instead, they should fix that for all platforms by making changes on their end.

Thanks. IMDb's recommendation is to use ld-json for retrieval of structured data in unfurling/preview. A quick Google, and it's appears that's a regular recommendation/preference , rather than adopting Facebook's og microdata.

 

[Jeremy P]

I'm not aware of any social platforms which use JSON-LD for unfurling/preview. We can consider it some day, especially if prominent social platforms start to adopt it, but for the time being they are geared towards ostensibly similar but subtly different use-cases. Parsing structured data effectively tends to be much more of a headache.

It is puzzling to me that IMDb recommends using JSON-LD for the same purpose as OpenGraph, but supports both with different data.