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Chat API Demo Application for Android
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Thumbnail not generated after sharing YouTube url in a channel #62

Closed mayuroks closed 6 years ago

mayuroks commented 6 years ago

Description

When you share a YouTube video in Facebook messenger or WhatsApp it generates a thumbnail and shows the video title as well. When I tried sending video in Twilio, thumbnail wasn't generated.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Copy YouTube video url
  2. Open the twilio chat demo app
  3. Send the video url
  4. No thumbnail is generated

Expected Behavior

sending YouTube url in a channel should generate a thumbail

Actual Behavior

sending YouTube url in a channel did NOT generate a thumbail

berkus commented 6 years ago

Thumbnails are generated by the client. Feel free to implement any of the existing thumbnail preview solutions or devise your own.