Bandcamp embeds render with improper metadata

Bugs
1

Bandcamp URL embeds render in emails and on web with improper author data on the bookmark card. See below (red square highlighting incorrect “commenter” metadata that should not appear on the embed card):

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This issue can be fixed on web only with code injection:

<style>
   a[href*="bandcamp"] .kg-bookmark-publisher {display:none;}
</style>

However, even with this code injection work-around, the incorrect metadata persists in Bandcamp embeds in emails.

Bandcamp iframe embeds don’t render in emails either, so there is no viable workaround for this problem.

To reproduce, create a Ghost post and embed a Bandcamp url, include the code injection, and then publish on web and email. The incorrect metadata (which derives from commenters on the Bandcamp page and has nothing to do with relevant metadata—i.e., artist or record label) will persist in the published email.

I am using Ghost Pro.

2

Could you share a url that isn’t working from bandcamp, please?

iframes don’t work in email. That’s an email client limitation. If you need it to look like the embed content, consider embedding a linking a screenshot. (Link either to the source of the embedded content or to the web version.)

3

The embeds work, but they render with incorrect metadata. The “author” metadata (highlighted in the red square in the image above) is pulled from people commenting on the Bandcamp page, and isn’t relevant to the musical artist or record label, and it shouldn’t appear in the embed card.

4

Right, understood. I was hoping to look at the metadata in the source of a page that’s causing a problem, rather than an image of the problem. :)

5

Ah, sorry, that’s beyond me. I can say that this issue has persisted with every single Bandcamp embed I’ve published so far (probably 30-40+).

6

Wait, sorry, I’m misunderstanding. Here are severak Bandcamp urls I embedded in a post today that were affected by this issue:

7

(Simultaneous posting - Thanks!)