How to clear Linkedin Share cache?

Question

I have a new description in the page but when I share the page it is still using the old description that no longer exists, I am after something similar like the Facebook Lint.

Any ideas?

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Answer 1

You can append dummy query string value to your url and make it look like a new url and LinkedIn fetches it again. I've tried it and it works.

For example:

https://www.codeproof.com/?refid=LinkedIn

where refid=LinkedIn is just a dummy value.

If your url already contains query string and then just append "&refid=LinkedIn" at the end of the url.

Lyndel

Has anyone had any success with this approach? Not working for me so far. – Candlepin

doesn't work for me. I have a client asking for the update and LinkedIn keeps showing the old image, title and description – Vegetarianism

Worked for me. I was trying to delint the thumbnail for a Behance project. Adding simply &1 forced it nicely. Wish they had a delinter tool like Facebook offers. – Lucas

This worked great for me. To reiterate, you are basically tricking linkedin into thinking its accessing a new URL so it can parse for open graph tags as if it is the first time your site is being shared. – Tefillin

And you can also, purge cache in your backend, and Both worked for me. – Chimerical

2018 and this trick still works. Unfortunately had to visit LinkedIn site to check, so expecting a flood of new emails atsn – They

Answer 2

Unfortunately, appending a query string to the URL no longer works.

From the following StackOverflow post:

LinkedIn's content cache presently stores website information for approximately 7 days before the crawler will revisit the site.

There looks like there is no instant way to clear the cache, but to wait seven days, remove the media and re-add it.

Lama

2018 checking in, appending a query string still works – They

Answer 3

Appending a query string to the URL no longer works, so you'll have to wait 7 days. But if you really need to share your URL with the medias you want, you'll have to go with a custom API call.

From the LinkedIn developer docs :

The first time that LinkedIn's crawlers visit a webpage when asked to share content via a URL, the data it finds (Open Graph values or our own analysis) will be cached for a period of approximately 7 days.

This means that if you subsequently change the article's description, upload a new image, fix a typo in the title, etc., you will not see the change represented during any subsequent attempts to share the page until the cache has expired and the crawler is forced to revisit the page to retrieve fresh content.

If you make API calls that directly provide the content to be shared rather than by a URL that requires analysis, LinkedIn will always use the values you provide.

Antrum

Answer 4

Step 1: Visit https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/

Step 2: Enter your URL and click on Inspect, You will see the updated preview image

Step 3: Now try sharing your URL on LinkedIn

Euthanasia

Answer 5

I've just found a way to force linkedin to fetch a fresh version of the page. Just create a redirect to your destination page and share the redirect page.

For example:

If your page that you want to share is: http://stackoverflow.com

Create a redirect for a page: https://stackoverflow.com/share-li to go to http://stackoverflow.com

And then share the https://stackoverflow.com/share-li on linked in. This way linkedin will think it's a new page and it'll get a fresh page version.

It's easy to do if you're using wordpress, just install a redirection plugin like this one for example: https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

Cochleate

Answer 6

For wordpress these steps work for me:

1. In the home page I've removed the featured image and add it as a simple image on the header of the page
2. I've created a redirect page in my blog like (mydomain.com/social) that redirects all requests to my blog (mydomain.com)
3. Share the blog again in the social networks and everything will be ok

It's done =D

Pincushion

Answer 7

Unfortunately, there is none as of now. We are investigating what it would take to expose a similar feature. Please stay tuned. We'll announce it on the developer site at http://developer.linkedin.com.

Migdaliamigeon

It has been 1 and half years and nothing happened. For some reason we have spanish sentences for our domain and we cant reset/flush it. We had to use domain.com?linkedin as data url to get correct messaging. – Beltane

Getting on for 2 and a half now... is this still being reviewed, Adam? – Disengage

Three years later, still nothing?! Seriously—Facebook offers a delinter: developers.facebook.com/tools/debug – Lucas

March 2015 Still Nothing. LinkedIn peoples, get your act together! – Alee

I am very surprised that such a basic issue has not been resolved. – Holleran

It's been so long without this function my friend..I will tell you all about it when I'll see you my friend. 2nd June, 2015. – Corrigible

No solution yet after 4 years? – Shangrila

Just had to deal with this issue today, appending the query string still works – They