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https://github.com/tomaskebrle/astro-og-image

An astro integration to generate static Open Graph images, at build time
https://github.com/tomaskebrle/astro-og-image

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# :rocket: Astro Open Graph Image
An astro integration to generate static Open Graph images, at build time

# Setup
## Prerequisites

You will need an astro site with a blog. And then you need to install [astro-og-image package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/astro-og-image).

```bash
npm i astro-og-image
pnpm add astro-og-image
yarn add astro-og-image
```

## Config
Now you will need to import the integration into your astro config

```typescript
import {defineConfig} from "astro/config";
import astroOGImage from "astro-og-image";
export default defineConfig({
integrations: [
astroOGImage({
config: {
path: "/posts", // change this value to the folder where your posts are
// NOTE: index.md file will not get proccesed, so please avoid it
},
}),
],
});
```

## Creating template for the image

As I stated before the image will be created by screenshotting an HTML page. The integration will load the HTML from `og-image.html` file, so create one **in the root directory** and put your template inside.

```html





Document


@title


```

Note that the `@title` will then be replaced by the title of your post.

## Adding the Open Graph image property to your BaseHead

First of all you will need to add the slug property to your markdown files something like this

```md
---
title: My first
publishDate: 28 Jun 2022
description: The very first post on my new blog
slug: my-post // <-- NOTE: slug must be the same as file name
---
```

Then in your blogpost layout modify the BaseHead component to accept the slug as a parameter

```astro
---
const { title, description, publishDate, slug } = content; // Destructure it here
---



```

And modify the BaseHead component meta tags.
_I recomennd that you use a fallback image for all the non posts pages, and in case something goes wrong._

```astro
---
export interface Props {
title: string;
description: string;
slug: string;
}
const { title, description, slug, publishDate } = Astro.props;
---

```

## Final steps

Great now you should be done!🎉 Deploy your site and test it out. Great site for testing this out is [Open Graph previewer](https://www.opengraph.xyz/).