Generate Open Graph protocol images for your website using Next.js and React components.

Inspired by Vercel's Open Graph image service 🙂.

npm install next-og-image

The API route will generate and serve Open Graph images.

It can be placed in any directory inside of pages/api, but it must be named [...path].ts.

For example:

pages/api/og-image/[...path].ts

Learn more about Next.js API routes and catch-all routes.

Place the following code inside of the [...path].ts API route:

import { createHandler } from 'next-og-image'
const ogImageHandler = createHandler()
export default ogImageHandler

The createHandler function returns a Next.js API handler function.

Next OG Image converts any Next.js page to a PNG image suitable for use as an Open Graph image.

You can create a Next.js page at any location to render an OG image.

You may want to tell search engines not to index the page, because it's not particularly useful beyond rendering an OG image.

The image generated is 2048x1260 pixels. You may need to make the contents of you page larger than you'd expect. On my website, I have used the zoom property to quickly and easily scale up my design system components.

Here is an example from my personal site: https://ash.gd/this-is-my-jam/28252440-993a-4096-9f7b-9588ff4374ac/og-image.

The PNG version can be accessed at: https://og-image.ash.gd/api/this-is-my-jam/28252440-993a-4096-9f7b-9588ff4374ac/og-image.png.

Use the following URL structure to link to an OG image:

[url]/api/[apiRoute]/[ogPath].png

For example: https://og-image.ash.gd/api/this-is-my-jam/28252440-993a-4096-9f7b-9588ff4374ac/og-image.png.

The generated image is 1200x600 pixels, adhering to the 2:1 aspect ratio of Twitter's summary card with large image format.

If you have different requirements for the image size, please comment on #11.

You can use query parameters to customise the source page. Any query parameters included in the request are passed through to the source page, where you can access them using a Next.js data fetching function, or the Next.js router.

Next OG Image must know your website URL in order to load a page to snapshot.

If you deploy to Vercel, this will be handled automatically using the VERCEL_URL environment variable.

If you do not deploy to Vercel, are testing locally, or want to override the URL, you can do so by setting the OG_IMAGE_BASE_URL environment variable.

Generated images are cached by the CDN and the client for one year.

To run Next OG Image outside of Vercel, AWS, or GCP, set the OG_IMAGE_CHROME_EXECUTABLE_PATH environment variable.

For example, on macOS: /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome.