Dataset linked SEO (and/or screencap api)

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I’m having trouble with:

Making it so that when I link my site on social media, the SEO image preview for my site is a current screenshot of what the site looks like. I only know how to set it up such that an image I uploaded is the image preview. I’d like it to be a real time or automatically taken screenshot of the page.

What I’m trying to do:
Find some ideas on if this could be possible. Maybe have an iframe run a code that when called, takes a screencapture of the webpage, sends that as an image file to a database, and then that database is in some way used as that page’s SEO thumbnail when the link is shared. I’d like to save myself the trouble by asking first if something like this is even possible.

I’d also appreciate knowing if there’s just a way that dataset can in any way be linked to the SEO image. Curious about all of this.

Additionally, if this isn’t possible within wix, is there any third party service that might provide a new url that does use a screenshot of the page as the preview when pages are linked? Something like a cross between tinyurl and thum.io

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I think what I’m trying to ask is if I can, or how do I, change the metadata image for a wix page to be a current screencap of the page.

And, if I need a third party service to achieve this, and can I connect the metadata image to a dataset?

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I’m not sure if there are existing services that are able to do this for you, but it sounds achievable. Albeit, it’ll likely need to code to be achieved.

Something like:

  • Scheduled job - run every hour
  • Take a screenshot and update the collection image
  • When the site loads, use the SDK below to update the image

I don’t believe so (at least, not without code). With code, you can change the metaTags() - Meta Tags | SDK - to display the image you want to be shown.

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