Laravel Og Image Laravel Package

title: Installation & setup weight: 3

You can install the package via composer:

composer require spatie/laravel-og-image

The package automatically registers a middleware in the web middleware group that handles OG image processing (injecting meta tags, fallback images, and preview rendering). No manual middleware configuration is needed.

Configuring the screenshot driver

This package uses spatie/laravel-screenshot to take screenshots of your OG image HTML. You can use either Browsershot or Cloudflare to take these screenshots.

Browsershot (default)

Browsershot is the default driver and requires Node.js and Chrome/Chromium on your server. No extra configuration is needed if these are already installed.

See the Browsershot requirements and installation instructions for how to set these up, including instructions for Forge.

Cloudflare

If you don't want to install Node.js and Chrome on your server, you can use Cloudflare's Browser Rendering API instead.

Add this to your AppServiceProvider:

use Spatie\OgImage\Facades\OgImage;

public function boot(): void
{
    OgImage::useCloudflare(
        apiToken: env('CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN'),
        accountId: env('CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID'),
    );
}

Then add your credentials to .env:

CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN=your-api-token
CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID=your-account-id

You can find your account ID in the Cloudflare dashboard URL (https://dash.cloudflare.com/<account-id>). To create an API token, go to API Tokens and create a token with the Workers Scripts: Edit permission.

Publishing the config file

Optionally, you can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=og-image-config

This is the content of the published config file:

return [
    /*
     * The filesystem disk used to store generated OG images.
     */
    'disk' => 'public',

    /*
     * The path within the disk where OG images will be stored.
     */
    'path' => 'og-images',

    /*
     * The dimensions of the generated OG images in pixels.
     */
    'width' => 1200,
    'height' => 630,

    /*
     * The default image format. Supported: "jpeg", "png", "webp".
     */
    'format' => 'jpeg',

    /*
     * The image quality for JPEG and WebP formats (1-100).
     * Set to null to use the driver's default quality.
     */
    'quality' => null,

    /*
     * The query parameter used to trigger OG image preview mode.
     * Appending this parameter to any page URL renders just the
     * template content at the configured dimensions.
     */
    'preview_parameter' => 'ogimage',

    /*
     * The number of seconds that CDNs and browsers may cache the image
     * response from /og-image/{hash}.jpeg.
     * Since image URLs are content-hashed, this is safe to cache aggressively.
     * Set to 0 to disable caching.
     */
    'redirect_cache_max_age' => 60 * 60 * 24,

    /*
     * The maximum number of seconds to wait for a lock when generating
     * an OG image. This prevents concurrent requests from generating
     * the same image simultaneously.
     */
    'lock_timeout' => 60,

    /*
     * The actions used by this package. You can replace any of them with
     * your own class to customize the behavior. Your custom class should
     * extend the default action.
     *
     * Learn more: https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-og-image/v1/advanced-usage/customizing-actions
     */
    'actions' => [
        'generate_og_image' => \Spatie\OgImage\Actions\GenerateOgImageAction::class,
        'inject_og_image_fallback' => \Spatie\OgImage\Actions\InjectOgImageFallbackAction::class,
        'render_og_image_screenshot' => \Spatie\OgImage\Actions\RenderOgImageScreenshotAction::class,
    ],

];