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Using dynamic text as your OG Image

Learn how to pass the image title as a URL parameter.
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Next.js (/app)

You can use the following code sample to explore using parameters and different content types with next/og. To learn more about OG Image Generation, see Open Graph Image Generation.

Create an api route with route.tsx in /app/api/og/ and paste the following code:
Next.js (/app)
Next.js (/pages)
Other frameworks
app/api/og/route.tsx
import { ImageResponse } from 'next/og';
// App router includes @vercel/og.
// No need to install it.
 
export async function GET(request: Request) {
  try {
    const { searchParams } = new URL(request.url);
 
    // ?title=<title>
    const hasTitle = searchParams.has('title');
    const title = hasTitle
      ? searchParams.get('title')?.slice(0, 100)
      : 'My default title';
 
    return new ImageResponse(
      (
        <div
          style={{
            backgroundColor: 'black',
            backgroundSize: '150px 150px',
            height: '100%',
            width: '100%',
            display: 'flex',
            textAlign: 'center',
            alignItems: 'center',
            justifyContent: 'center',
            flexDirection: 'column',
            flexWrap: 'nowrap',
          }}
        >
          <div
            style={{
              display: 'flex',
              alignItems: 'center',
              justifyContent: 'center',
              justifyItems: 'center',
            }}
          >
            <img
              alt="Vercel"
              height={200}
              src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg width='116' height='100' fill='white' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%3E%3Cpath d='M57.5 0L115 100H0L57.5 0z' /%3E%3C/svg%3E"
              style={{ margin: '0 30px' }}
              width={232}
            />
          </div>
          <div
            style={{
              fontSize: 60,
              fontStyle: 'normal',
              letterSpacing: '-0.025em',
              color: 'white',
              marginTop: 30,
              padding: '0 120px',
              lineHeight: 1.4,
              whiteSpace: 'pre-wrap',
            }}
          >
            {title}
          </div>
        </div>
      ),
      {
        width: 1200,
        height: 630,
      },
    );
  } catch (e: any) {
    console.log(`${e.message}`);
    return new Response(`Failed to generate the image`, {
      status: 500,
    });
  }
}

If you're not using a framework, you must either add "type": "module" to your package.json or change your JavaScript Functions' file extensions from .js to .mjs

Preview the OG route locally by running the following command:

pnpm
yarn
npm
pnpm dev

Then, browse to http://localhost:3000/api/og. You will see the following image:

Image generated using title=my post title

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Last updated on May 4, 2024