Can I test Google+ rich snippet localy?

Question

I try to add google plus social share button. And want to customize share dialog. With facebook it's really simple -- I just change some arguments in function which create share button. But with google I should use Snippet API. I tried to do everything similar to example: but same standard dialog. Did I do something wrong or there is no ability to test this functionality local?

Answer 1

The Google crawler that populates the share box must be able to retrieve the page that you are referencing to be able to get the metadata. Google cannot crawl your local resources so you cannot directly test it that way. The Share buttons do not offer the ability to manually specify this data.

You could make a test copy and host it somewhere public to see how it renders. Another option would be to use a localhost tunneling service that you could use in your test URLs, but still be able to work locally.