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Dynamic social card with Vercel OG Image Generation

This blog was originally posted on my personal website 👉 phung.io

Introduction

In this quick tutorial, I will show you how to create an image like this one below using the Vercel Image Generation API for your social media posts

social-image

Inspiration from fullstackheroes.com

Vercel Image Generation API

To get started we need to install the @og/vercel package from npm

npm install @og/vercel
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Next, create a new file called og-image.ts in the root of your project. This file will be used to generate the image.

import { ImageResponse } from '@vercel/og'

export const config = {
  runtime: 'edge',
}

export default function handler(req) {
  try {
    const { searchParams } = new URL(req.url)
    const website = 'phung.io'

    // dynamic params
    const title = searchParams.get('title')?.slice(0, 100)
    const published = searchParams.get('published')

    return new ImageResponse(
      (
        <div tw="h-full w-full flex bg-white border-blue-500 border-[16px]">
          <div tw="flex flex-col justify-between w-full h-full p-20">
            <div tw="flex flex-col">
              <div tw="text-[32px]">{published}</div>
              <h1 tw="text-[64px]">{title}</h1>
            </div>
            <div tw="flex flex-row">
              <img
                src="https://phung.io/static/images/logo.jpeg"
                tw="w-20 h-20 rounded-full"
                alt="tuan-phung"
              />
              <div tw="flex flex-col pl-8">
                <div tw="text-[32px]">Tuan Phung</div>
                <div tw="text-[24px] text-blue-700">{website}</div>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
      ),
      {
        width: 1200,
        height: 630,
      }
    )
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(`${e.message}`)
    return new Response(`Failed to generate the image`, {
      status: 500,
    })
  }
}
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and then we can call our API with the following URL


const siteUrl = 'https://phung.io'

const encodedTitle = encodeURIComponent(title)
const encodedDate = encodeURIComponent(formatDate(publishedAt) + ' | ' + readingTime.text)

const autoOgImage = `${siteMetadata.siteUrl}/api/og?title=${encodedTitle}&published=${encodedDate}`

<meta property="og:image" content={url} key={autoOgImage} />
<meta property="og:url" content={autoOgImage} />
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Here are more links related to @og/vercel

Thanks for reading

Let me know in the comments section what you think about this article. If you love it, you know what to do! Share it with your friends and colleagues.

If you want me to cover some topics in the next post, DM me on twitter @tuanphung_, or if you have any suggestions, feel free to comment below.

See ya next time and keep on hacking ✌

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