I’ve spent a few days trying to solve the “Error parsing input URL, no data was scraped” Facebook scraping error, and finally found a solution which I’ll share with you through this post.
I wanted to make this blog more social, so I thought I could use some of the WordPress’s excellent social plugins. I’ve installed and setup the necessary plugins, and one of them was supposed to automatically post on my chosen social networks once a post got published.
Upon publishing my first post, it appeared on Twitter, but not on Facebook. Instead, when trying to share a post from this blog, the Facebook share box would display “404 Page not found” (in other cases it would say “Welcome to nginx!”) as the post preview.
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