hiya!

i'm curious if there is a way to embed a live player character sheet on an external webpage? (wordpress specifically!) i have a site where i host information about my characters/campaigns & being able to have character stats displayed would be cute. (+ encourage the viewer to click through & view the whole character sheet on ddb)

currently, when i use imessages/iphone to share a link to a character sheet, it comes up with this nice little preview image:

this is awesome! & basically what i want! i'm just ... not sure how to capture it outside of whatever magic imessages does to conjure it up? i haven't coded much since learning i hated it in college lmfao. so far i've only messed around with iframes, but i'm pretty sure those are dead anyway. i appreciate any suggestions! thanks!!!

also if this ... isn't possible ... wink wink i'd love this to be a feature

EDIT: this is not live though, it is a snapshot in time

I am by no means an expert, but this is what I have figured out:

• iMessage uses the Open Graph protocol to select the image to display
• When you click on the "get shareable link" in D&D Beyond and then visit it, it generates Open Graph information for previews

If wordpress has a plugin for showing Open Graph information, you can just use that

Otherwise, you can do it the hard way:

• go to your character via the shareable link
• view page source
• look for the og:image meta property and copy the picture link after it
• Put that in an embedded tag (you may need to add <p> before and </p> after)
  • you may need to play with the height and width properties of that as well

ex, for one of my characters

• the shareable link is https://ddb.ac/characters/6648868/5liMnV
• going to that link and viewing source, the image is https://media-waterdeep.cursecdn.com/avatars/5370/880/636854987984154551.jpeg
• the embed tag is then <p><embed src="https://media-waterdeep.cursecdn.com/avatars/5370/880/636854987984154551.jpeg"></p>
• It looks like:

Some more random notes from what I have observed:

Image size can be up to 1200 x 634 (that is what the native size is)

You can make it clickable by putting it in a link

From the above example

<p><a href="https://ddb.ac/characters/6648868/5liMnV"><embed src="https://media-waterdeep.cursecdn.com/avatars/5370/880/636854987984154551.jpeg" width="400" height="211"></embed></a></p>

Its worth mentioning on this that UA, Playtest, Critical Role, etc. content does not work and you cannot generate the proper images for these.

If you can, someone let us know where/how!

Additionally, does anyone know how to get the same sort of images on characters save throws, passives, resistances, etc?

Thank you Houligan, great advice and very useful!

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Additionally, does anyone know how to get the same sort of images on characters save throws, passives, resistances, etc?

You can't. The character image card is generated by D&D Beyond when you click to get a share link.

Also, the image cards should still work, even with UA stuff.

@Houligan

i thought i responded to this but i’m realizing NEVER DID - THANK YOU so much for your help with this!!! i was able to extract all the player cards i needed! it was super cool of you to figure this out for me!

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Quote from Lukage >>

Additionally, does anyone know how to get the same sort of images on characters save throws, passives, resistances, etc?

 

You can't. The character image card is generated by D&D Beyond when you click to get a share link.

Also, the image cards should still work, even with UA stuff.

Challenge issued. Can you help find it for this character?

https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/12392671/iuVtVO

The XML seems to be screwed up. Here's what it generates:

https://www.dndbeyond.com/content/1-0-871-0/skins/Waterdeep/images/Waterdeep_opengraph.png

I tried to duplicate a few characters this issue was present with and had no luck. Tried an Artificer, too! I tried to copy the character and check. The copy has the same thing.

Hey Houligan thank you for the info. Do you know if the image will update as the character progresses? I had to do it the hard way with my site and i didn't see a change when i changed the character was sure if thats because my site isn't live yet or because the og image location/name changes with each update

No, its generated at the time you make the share link, which is unique to that point in time.

If you want to update it you need to make another share link and extract the picture again.

Does anyone know if these still work? Try as I might I can't find any of this the code 

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Does anyone know if these still work? Try as I might I can't find any of this the code 

 Embeddable character cards are no longer supported at this time due to previous changes to the character sheet service

When was this announced?