LinkedIn Share Post URL

From the LinkedIn developer docs ("Customized URL" tab):

https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://developer.linkedin.com&title=LinkedIn%20Developer%20Network&summary=My%20favorite%20developer%20program&source=LinkedIn

Had issues with LinkedIn Sharing and found a resolve:

Sites shared with Non-SSL (http) addresses will display the error: "Something went wrong - Try again"

https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=http://example.com

How to fix the "Something went wrong" share link error:

Modify the beginning the {url} - replacing the http with https:

https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https://example.com

Visit the link to generate LinkedIn's thumbnail and page description.

Both share link addresses for Non-SSL (http) and SSL (https) will work correctly now.

Edit: Replace //example.com with your website


First step, let's see what URL is right...

2010:

https://www.linkedin.com/cws/share?url={url}

2015:

https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url={url}&title={title}&summary={text}&source={provider}

2020:

https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url={url}

Official Microsoft LinkedIn Share API Documentation. Of course, don't take our word for it! Any of the above URL formats will redirect to the 2020 URL format.

Second step, just how do you use things like `summary`, `title`, etc.?

Use og: tags in the <head> block of your HTML! To quote the documentation, these should look like...

  • <meta property='og:title' content='Title of the article'/>
  • <meta property='og:image' content='//media.example.com/ 1234567.jpg'/>
  • <meta property='og:description' content='Description that will show in the preview'/>
  • <meta property='og:url' content='//www.example.com/URL of the article' />

Source: LinkedIn Share Documentation: Making Your Website Shareable on LinkedIn

Third step, now want to check to see you did everything right?

That's the easy part! Take the URL you are sharing (i.e., example.com, not linkedin.com?share=example.com), and input it into the LinkedIn Post Inspector. You will be told everything that goes into determining how your webpage is shared on LinkedIn, from og: tags to oEmbed data.

Here's an online demo with share links to 20+ services. Check the source code and you can see first-hand how the share link for Linkedin works!

Fourth step, why doesn't the `og:description` tag work?

I have a more detailed answer elsewhere on the og:description tag not displaying in the LinkedIn preview.

If you are interested in a regularly maintained GitHub project that keeps track of this so you don't have to, check it out! I'm a contributor! Social Share URLs

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