unfurler.dev

Active 2026

Fetches your page as Twitterbot, as Slackbot, and as a browser, then shows you the preview card each one would actually build.

You write a post, you share the link, and the preview card comes up blank. You open a preview debugger, it tells you everything is fine — because it fetched your page as a browser, and a browser is not what X or Slack sends.

unfurler.dev fetches your page three times in parallel: once as Twitterbot/1.0, once as Slackbot-LinkExpanding, and once as a browser. Each card is built from the HTML that platform’s own crawler actually received. When the three responses disagree — a CDN rule, a WAF, a bot filter — you get told, and you can flip between them and read the difference.

It also shows the whole fallback chain for every field, not just which tag won, which matters because X and Slack disagree about the order. And it does a ranged fetch of your image to measure its real pixel dimensions rather than trusting og:image:width.

I wrote up how it works in See Your Link Before You Post It.