Share Preview is a free and open source social media cards tester application for Linux. Using Share Preview, you can preview and test any website social media cards and check how it looks when sharing on Facebook and twitter. Currently it supports Facebook, twitter and Mastodon card meta data details. Social media cards are a way to display your website or webpage image, title, and description on social media platforms. Social Media Cards will help your website to get some love in social media. It is written in rust and released under GNU General Public License v3.0.
Install Share Preview on Ubuntu Linux
Share Preview is available as a flatpak package from flathub. You can easily install it via your terminal command line application. If you don’t have flatpak and flathub then follow below link to install it on your system and restart after installation.
How to install Flatpak on Ubuntu Linux
After that open the terminal app (ctrl+alt+t) and run below Share Preview flatpak installation command. It will install the latest version of Share Preview on your system.
flatpak install flathub com.rafaelmardojai.SharePreview
You can run it via below command
flatpak run com.rafaelmardojai.SharePreview
and if you don’t like it then uninstall it via
sudo flatpak uninstall com.rafaelmardojai.SharePreview
That’s all
