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elistone/social-share-preview
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Generate social share previews

v1.0.0(4y ago)05MITPHPPHP >=7.4

Since Sep 13Pushed 4y ago1 watchersCompare

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Social Share Preview
====================

[](#social-share-preview)

The social share preview is a library designed to pass in certain content such as title, description, image url & a web url then request a preview will be generated based upon certain social media sites.

Install
-------

[](#install)

### Composer *Recommend*

[](#composer-recommend)

```
composer require elistone/social-share-preview

```

### Manually

[](#manually)

Download this package manually and add it to your projected

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
// init preview library.
$preview = new Preview();

// set the common content.
$preview->setTitle("This is my example title");
$preview->setDescription("This is my example description");
$preview->setImageUrl("https://source.unsplash.com/random");
$preview->setUrl("https://example.com");

// set the type of preview.
$preview->setType("facebook"); // Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.

// generate and display the preview.
echo $preview->generate();
```

Styling
-------

[](#styling)

This library contains some basic styling for the generated output this can be found at `css/social-share-preview.css`.

Example
-------

[](#example)

There is an example file found in this project which can be launched with php serve.

```
php -S localhost:8001

```

Then visiting  will load the example.

###  Health Score

23

—

LowBetter than 26% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity52

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

1753d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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