Link previews - AWS Wickr
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This guide documents the new AWS Wickr administration console, released on March 13, 2025. For documentation on the classic version of the AWS Wickr administration console, see Classic Administration Guide.

Link previews

When a user shares a link and has "Link Previews" enabled, Wickr generates an edit message with the preview content.

{
  "edit": {
    "originalmessageid": "11457fa08da211ea881baffab0b42745",
    "text": "https://example.com",
    "type": "text"
  },
  "message_id": "1163e5b08da211eab775a5032a0322ca",
  "msg_ts": "1588553780.000000",
  "msgtype": 9000,
  "sender": "user001",
  "sender_type": "normal",
  "time": "5/3/20 5:56 PM",
  "time_iso": "2020-05-03 17:56:20.000",
  "vgroupid": "S243f2ec645d3961bdd531f51f3244205d292b8d0fbd41802827746271d31d41"
}