Hmmm... I don't have any clue why that would be happening. It's a valid URL, as you can see by going there:

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/429203-the-old-man-and-the-gun?language=fr-FR

We don't do any user agent filtering or anything like that on the website, so I really have no clue what would cause that...

Recently see that the url has changed :
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/62286/fr become :
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/62286-fear-the-walking-dead?language=fr-FR

These 2 url still working but none of them make any preview on facebook anymore.

So probably a modification on Facebook side... :/

I will try to ask them.

Thanks for your answer.

@schmurtz said:

Recently see that the url has changed :
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/62286/fr become :
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/62286-fear-the-walking-dead?language=fr-FR

We've always redirected the /fr (or any other valid ISO tag) to the full URL. That's not new. It's been this way for years, so something else has changed...

ah OK I never paid attention to this... So OK, no correlation with the problem ;)

Hi, I'm having the same problem, many users reported this issue to me, it seems Facebook it's not loading data correctly.

I've ran the Facebook debugger tool which seems to get a 404 response. Example for Star Wars movie: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themoviedb.org%2Fmovie%2F11-star-wars

Maybe it's due to a domain DDOS protection or anything similar which recognizes Facebook's crawler as a robot and denies the access.

Any clue? Other social network crawlers seem to be working fine

Best regards

I just pushed a fix for this. Let me know how it looks now. Facebook caches these requests for some amount of time. On some of the links I checked I had to click the "Scrape Again" link for it to pick up updates.

Thank you very much for fix that! I can confirm it's working now

Regards

@travisbell said:

I just pushed a fix for this. Let me know how it looks now. Facebook caches these requests for some amount of time. On some of the links I checked I had to click the "Scrape Again" link for it to pick up updates.

Yes ! It works again, thank you !

One more question about facebook previews : you explain to me that I can add /fr to the end of the url to get it in a specific language. This trick don't work in facebook previews : the preview still in english if I add "/fr" or "?language=fr-FR". After a click on the url posted on facebook I arrive on the french page of tmdb so the url is good but the preview generated is always in english.

Preview imdb french

Hi @schmurtz I have fixed this in the upcoming v5 release. The URL's will start using their properly localized data once it's public. Thanks.

That's awesome, thanks for the support ! Looking forward this new releas !