Why doesn't VKontakte pick up my OpenGraph image?

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d432013-01-01 18:36:24

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d43, 2013-01-01 18:36:24

There is a site with og:image written like this:

<meta content="http://smoothmouse.com/img/og-image.jpg" property="og:image">

VKontakte does not pick up this picture when inserting a link into a message on the wall:

although Facebook does this without problems:

They write on the Internet that VKontakte does not work with OpenGraph and requires some kind of tag for these pictures, but this is not true: you can make sure of this if you insert a link to any other site with og:image spelled out (for example, www.cnet.com ). In addition, there is a mention of og:image in the documentation of VKontakte itself .

Facebook Object Debugger says everything is ok .

It is also interesting that you can get around the problem with a link like this:
https://vk.com/share.php?image=http://smoothmouse.com/img/og-image.jpg&url=http://smoothmouse.com

Anyone encountered such a problem?

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vosi, 2013-01-01
@d43

I know for sure that contact and fb cache links
and if you check, add something, check again - there will be an old result, you need to change the link to see the changes

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Dmitry Mitselin, 2013-12-03
@Mycelin

Does anyone know if the cache is updated at all? There is no information anywhere, I used to change quickly, now something has changed.
UPD: They made a tool for that! :)
vk.com/dev/pages.clearCache
Like Facebook ( developers.facebook.com/tools/debug )

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Jonh Doe, 2013-01-01
@CodeByZen

<link rel="image_src" href="./images/noimg100x100.gif" />

It works for me if I paste this. However, when previewing, the picture is full, but when submitting, the layout of the contact cuts the picture in width. I asked a question to support, they answered me that they support it only on large sites, and on the rest, as much as possible.

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hayk, 2013-01-01
@hayk

As already written, most likely cached. It's easy to make sure: add a get-parameter to the url.

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kostryukov, 2016-11-29
@kostryukov

clear cache
https://vk.com/dev/pages.clearCache?params[url]=fa...

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sem_tio, 2017-06-27
@sem_tio

It works for me like this:
In general, the complete filling of OpenGraph looks like this for me (this is for VK):

<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Заголовок" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Описание" />
<meta property="og:url" content="Ссылка на вашу страницу" />
<meta property="og:image" content="Ссылка на фото" />

PS: all meta is inserted between your site tags. <head> </head>

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Sergey Miller, 2019-11-14
@blackseabreathe

right here

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Gregory, 2021-11-23
@gtomilin

Flush cache open graph image

for vk.com - vk.com/dev/pages.clearCache
for facebook.com - developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/