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Developers can present rich content from their websites, we have introduced Arrowat Mediaframe. Arrowat Mediaframe allows to web developers to present rich content like Image, Video, Link from their websites by inserting Arrowat Mediaframe Metatags,When user share your link on arrowat we look for the content on the Arrowat Mediaframe Metatags you have added, while you may not have Arrowat Mediaframe Metatags in your website we fallback into open graph protocol. we explain how to use in the following table.
You can use Arrowat Mediaframe Tools to test your site
Go to: Arrowat Mediaframe Tools

NOTE: ONLY DOMAIN APPROVED FOR MEDIA FRAME CAN USE THIS FEATURE AT THIS TIME, YOU MAY REQUEST TO APPROVE YOUR DOMAIN NAME AT ANY TIME.

Arrowat Mediaframe

arrowat:allow

Tell us to get content or not from your website, set the content to true to allow arrowat to get content from the meta tags website, set to false to don't allow arrowat to get the meta content from the website, this rule applies to open graph protocol too if you don't want to allow Arrowat get the content from your website

Usage:

Allow Arrowat to retrieve content from your site
<meta name="arrowat:allow" content="true" />

Disallow Arrowat to retrieve content from your site, once arrowat see arrowat:allow set as false stops trying to retrive the content from your website
<meta name="arrowat:allow" content="false" />

arrowat:type

At this time we have 3 Arrowat Mediaframe types available Image, Video, Link, it depends on the content you want to provide.

Image: The Arrowat Mediaframe is Image

Video: The Arrowat Mediaframe is Video

Link: The Arrowat Mediaframe is Link

Usage:
<meta name="arrowat:type" content="image" />
<meta name="arrowat:type" content="video" />
<meta name="arrowat:type" content="link" />

arrowat:site

The Arrowat site username to show on the Arrowat Mediaframe.

Usage:
<meta name="arrowat:site" content="arrowat username" />

Example:
<meta name="arrowat:site" content="@melvin" />

arrowat:title

The title of the content you are sharing.

Usage:
<meta name="arrowat:title" content="The technology space" />

arrowat:description

The description of the content you are sharing.

Usage:
<meta name="arrowat:description" content="How to Read the best article you will love while sleep." />

arrowat:image

The image of the content you are sharing.

Usage:
<meta name="arrowat:image" content="The image link here" />

Example:
<meta name="arrowat:image" content="https://melvindev.com/mvd/melvindev02.jpg" />

Link

We use the link shared on Arrowat. No meta tag is required.

arrowat:video

The Video embed frame to show on Arrowat Mediaframe. 100% width required, Arrowat Mediaframe is adapted.

Usage:
<meta name="arrowat:video" content="embed link" />

Example:
An example of Arrowat Mediaframe for video type is how youtube video are allowed for open graph protocol:
<meta property="og:video:secure_url" content="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9D1WE8ffhkc" />

Arrowat Mediaframe would be:
<meta name="arrowat:video" content="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9D1WE8ffhkc" />

Examples

The following are examples of Arrowat Mediaframe Metatags

Image Example

<meta name="arrowat:allow" content="true" />
<meta name="arrowat:type" content="image" />
<meta name="arrowat:site" content="@melvin" />
<meta name="arrowat:title" content="Home page" />
<meta name="arrowat:description" content="Developing my own life." />
<meta name="arrowat:image" content="https://melvindev.com/mvd/melvindev02.jpg" />

Link Example

<meta name="arrowat:allow" content="true" />
<meta name="arrowat:type" content="link" />
<meta name="arrowat:site" content="@melvin" />
<meta name="arrowat:title" content="Home page" />
<meta name="arrowat:description" content="Developing my own life." />
<meta name="arrowat:image" content="https://melvindev.com/mvd/melvindev02.jpg" />

Video Example

<meta name="arrowat:allow" content="true" />
<meta name="arrowat:type" content="video" />
<meta name="arrowat:site" content="@melvin" />
<meta name="arrowat:title" content="Home page" />
<meta name="arrowat:description" content="Developing my own life." />
<meta name="arrowat:image" content="embed Video image link" />
<meta name="arrowat:video" content="embed Video link" />