Updated: Some bookmark links only produce URLs, not cards with info about the item being linked to. The Washington Post is an example: I put in a link and all that shows up on the editing page is the URL. This started a few hours ago…
I’m curious if other folks are seeing this behavior with any of the links they try.
I can, unfortunately, confirm this.
One of my customers reported the same issue two days ago and I was looking for a solution. Initially, I thought it was related to this (my customer has an issue with YouTube links), but it might be something different.
When I try to put a random YouTube link in a bookmark card, I see this:
What’s interesting is the network requests that happens before this card is displayed.
That’s the request the Ghost editor sends to the Ghost server:
curl 'https://www.example.com/ghost/api/admin/oembed/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2IjNSippk1k%3Flocale%3Den_US&type=bookmark' \
-H 'accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01' \
-H 'accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.6' \
-H 'app-pragma: no-cache' \
-H 'content-type: application/json; charset=UTF-8' \
-H 'cookie: REDACTED \
-H 'dnt: 1' \
-H 'if-none-match: W/"1de-jD6zlHou2MVUq6vli7/XQPs9HoM"' \
-H 'priority: u=1, i' \
-H 'referer: https://www.example.com/ghost/' \
-H 'sec-ch-ua: "Not/A)Brand";v="8", "Chromium";v="126", "Brave";v="126"' \
-H 'sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0' \
-H 'sec-ch-ua-platform: "macOS"' \
-H 'sec-fetch-dest: empty' \
-H 'sec-fetch-mode: cors' \
-H 'sec-fetch-site: same-origin' \
-H 'sec-gpc: 1' \
-H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36' \
-H 'x-ghost-version: 5.89' \
-H 'x-requested-with: XMLHttpRequest'
This is the response that comes back:
{
"version": "1.0",
"type": "bookmark",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IjNSippk1k?locale=en_US",
"metadata": {
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/undefined",
"title": "- YouTube",
"description": "Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.",
"author": null,
"publisher": "YouTube",
"thumbnail": null,
"icon": "https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/06e27914/img/favicon_144x144.png"
}
}
Note how the metadata.url is set to `https://ww.youtube.com/undefined.
I have had a very quick look at the oembed implementation of the Ghost core and couldn’t find the issue on first glance. It does feel like a bug in there, though. Happy to be proven wrong.
Thanks for confirming. The problem is with only some outbound links
(Washington Post is a notable one).
My (hopefully short-term) workaround is to grab a screenshot of the
article’s headline and link to that.
Dan
I’ve been in touch with Ghost tech support. They agree there is a bug and are working on it.
I’m seeing this issue as well. Links to The Verge, The Week, and NBC News all created bookmarks just fine, but links to VentureBeat and Politico failed and resulted in naked URLs.