How to clear Twitter card cache with api?

[sudarshann]

I am looking for way to clear of twitter card cache using api

I am aware of this tool of Twitter helps in clearing the cache of the cards https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator

I am looking for a way to integrate this process into my application. What I am looking for is something similiar to what facebook offers (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/opengraph/using-objects#update)

I did try a simple code like below which happens in the twitter’s tool. but I get 403 authorized. Is there a way to to authorize the below request ?

$(document).ready(function(){
            $.post(
                "https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator/validate",
                {
                    "url" : "http://superbotics.com",
                    "platform" : "Swift-12",
                    "authenticity_token" : "tkWubiFOndkChH58oJmophrLlVoQqbQmY3QZFTayFK6uq"
                },
                function(data){
                    console.log(data);
                }
            );

});

Any help is appriciated

[andypiper]

There is no API for clearing the card crawler cache, and the card validator is not intended to be used in this manner. Simply re-submitting the same URL to the validator will not refresh the cache, so this would not work.

[MichaelApproved]

Hi. This is an API endpoint that I also need to use. I’m writing a program that’ll help people update their twitter feeds and sometimes the cached content doesn’t match what’s being shared. How can we programmatically clear the Twitter cache of a URL?

[andypiper]

How can we programmatically clear the Twitter cache of a URL?

There is no way to do this.

[MichaelApproved]

Thanks for the reply. Does Twitter automatically flush the cache every few days?

[andypiper]

Yes, there’s a re-crawl roughly every seven days - this is covered on the Troubleshooting page.

[chenebu]

This has been an issue with twitter for years, are there any plans on implementing functionality that would allow users to programmatically invalidate / update / the cache / force re-scrape the meta tags?

[andypiper]

There are some suggestions for how to do this in the troubleshooting docs, but there are no additional features planned that I am aware of at this time.

[chenebu]

Thanks for your reply!

I can’t find any information on how to programmatically update the cache @ twitter in the link you provided, can you tell me more precisely where to find this info?

(Creating a bit.ly-link is not a solution since the full URL is still cached and users tweeting that URL will still show old data)

[andypiper]

It’s not a programmatic solution unfortunately, but the guidance in the troubleshooting page suggests adding junk parameters to the end of the URL (bit.ly or otherwise) to cause the crawler to revisit the page. This is not intended as a way to regularly update the images, just to assist you while troubleshooting - the crawler delay and cache are not designed to be dynamically updated.