LinkedIn Post Inspector: How to Fix and Force-Refresh Previews

Use LinkedIn Post Inspector to clear stale link preview cache, fix wrong images or titles, and verify your Open Graph tags — step-by-step guide.

What is LinkedIn Post Inspector?

LinkedIn Post Inspector is LinkedIn's official tool for checking and refreshing link preview metadata. You can access it at linkedin.com/post-inspector (you must be logged in). It shows you exactly what LinkedIn's crawler reads from your page and lets you force a cache clear.

How to use LinkedIn Post Inspector step by step

  1. Go to linkedin.com/post-inspector and sign in to your LinkedIn account.
  2. Paste the full URL you want to inspect into the input field.
  3. Click Inspect. LinkedIn will show you:
    • The og:title LinkedIn found
    • The og:description
    • The og:image URL and whether it loaded
    • Any warnings about missing or incorrect tags
  4. If the preview shows old data, click Scrape Again to force LinkedIn to re-fetch the page and clear its cache.
  5. After scraping again, refresh the Post Inspector page and paste the URL again to confirm the new metadata is reflected.

Common errors in LinkedIn Post Inspector

“Unable to access URL” or “Cannot scrape”

LinkedIn's crawler is being blocked. Common causes:

  • Your robots.txt blocks all crawlers.
  • Your firewall or Cloudflare is blocking LinkedIn's IP ranges.
  • The URL requires authentication.
  • The page returns a non-200 status code.

Wrong image displayed even after Scrape Again

If the image is still wrong after scraping:

  1. View your page source and confirm the og:image tag has the correct URL.
  2. Open the image URL directly in a browser — confirm it returns the new image.
  3. Clear your CDN cache (Cloudflare, Fastly, etc.) — the CDN may be serving the old image.
  4. Run Scrape Again once more after CDN purge.

Image shows in Inspector but not in a live LinkedIn post

LinkedIn Post Inspector and the LinkedIn feed use slightly different cache layers. After a successful Scrape Again, wait 5–10 minutes before testing in the feed. You can also try creating a new draft post (do not publish) to see if the preview updates.

No og:image tag detected

If Post Inspector says “no og:image found,” your page is either not outputting the tag in server HTML (check for JavaScript-rendered tags) or the tag has a malformed property= attribute (it must be property="og:image", not name="og:image").

LinkedIn image requirements

  • Minimum size: 200×200 px (images below this are not shown)
  • Recommended: 1200×627 px (1.91:1 ratio)
  • Formats: JPEG, PNG (GIF and WebP are not reliably supported)
  • Max file size: 5 MB
  • Must be HTTPS and publicly accessible

Why Post Inspector says one thing but the feed shows another

LinkedIn's feed cache and the Post Inspector cache are separate systems. Post Inspector may show your updated data while the feed still serves stale data — this can take up to 24 hours to sync. If you need the preview to update immediately, delete the existing post and republish with the corrected URL.

Before running LinkedIn Post Inspector, verify your OG tags are correct with OG Fixer — it catches issues like missing tags, wrong image dimensions, and relative URLs before you even touch the Post Inspector.

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