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I want to see how sharing on my dev site is going to look on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest (I've added OG tags).

I know it's an oxymoron trying to test social sharing of a non-public site. But is there any way to do quality assurance of sharing before it is deployed to production? My dev URL is localhost but I do have a QA URL that is public but requires authentication.

I feel like I should be looking at this differently but I am not sure how. Must I wait until it's all live in production?

Daniel Widdis
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Justin
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    For those sites to be able to read your OG meta tags, the URLs must be publicly available via HTTP/HTTPS. (Or you need to except them from the authentication, by checking the User Agent header their scrapers send with their requests. Still requires the server itself to be reachable from the outside.) – CBroe Sep 11 '15 at 11:25
  • Hmm, setting an auth exemption for sharing service bots could work. Thanks for the idea. – Justin Sep 11 '15 at 19:21
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    Maybe here : [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8569892/how-to-test-open-graph-on-localhost) – Saïd Mezhoud Oct 19 '15 at 09:43
  • Those are great suggestions @SaïdMezhoud! I'll have to check out ngRock and ProxyLocal. – Justin Oct 19 '15 at 16:09

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