diff --git a/changelog.d/10814.feature b/changelog.d/10814.feature
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4fa95a6cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/10814.feature
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Improve oEmbed previews by processing the author name, photo, and video information.
diff --git a/docs/development/url_previews.md b/docs/development/url_previews.md
index bbe05e281..aff381360 100644
--- a/docs/development/url_previews.md
+++ b/docs/development/url_previews.md
@@ -25,16 +25,14 @@ When Synapse is asked to preview a URL it does the following:
 3. Kicks off a background process to generate a preview:
    1. Checks the database cache by URL and timestamp and returns the result if it
       has not expired and was successful (a 2xx return code).
-   2. Checks if the URL matches an oEmbed pattern. If it does, fetch the oEmbed
-      response. If this is an image, replace the URL to fetch and continue. If
-      if it is HTML content, use the HTML as the document and continue.
-   3. If it doesn't match an oEmbed pattern, downloads the URL and stores it
-      into a file via the media storage provider and saves the local media
-      metadata.
-   5. If the media is an image:
+   2. Checks if the URL matches an [oEmbed](https://oembed.com/) pattern. If it
+      does, update the URL to download.
+   3. Downloads the URL and stores it into a file via the media storage provider
+      and saves the local media metadata.
+   4. If the media is an image:
       1. Generates thumbnails.
       2. Generates an Open Graph response based on image properties.
-   6. If the media is HTML:
+   5. If the media is HTML:
       1. Decodes the HTML via the stored file.
       2. Generates an Open Graph response from the HTML.
       3. If an image exists in the Open Graph response:
@@ -42,6 +40,13 @@ When Synapse is asked to preview a URL it does the following:
             provider and saves the local media metadata.
          2. Generates thumbnails.
          3. Updates the Open Graph response based on image properties.
+   6. If the media is JSON and an oEmbed URL was found:
+      1. Convert the oEmbed response to an Open Graph response.
+      2. If a thumbnail or image is in the oEmbed response:
+         1. Downloads the URL and stores it into a file via the media storage
+            provider and saves the local media metadata.
+         2. Generates thumbnails.
+         3. Updates the Open Graph response based on image properties.
    7. Stores the result in the database cache.
 4. Returns the result.
 
diff --git a/synapse/rest/media/v1/oembed.py b/synapse/rest/media/v1/oembed.py
index 2e6706dbf..8b74e7265 100644
--- a/synapse/rest/media/v1/oembed.py
+++ b/synapse/rest/media/v1/oembed.py
@@ -12,11 +12,14 @@
 #  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 #  limitations under the License.
 import logging
+import urllib.parse
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional
 
 import attr
 
 from synapse.http.client import SimpleHttpClient
+from synapse.types import JsonDict
+from synapse.util import json_decoder
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from synapse.server import HomeServer
@@ -24,18 +27,15 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-@attr.s(slots=True, auto_attribs=True)
+@attr.s(slots=True, frozen=True, auto_attribs=True)
 class OEmbedResult:
-    # Either HTML content or URL must be provided.
-    html: Optional[str]
-    url: Optional[str]
-    title: Optional[str]
-    # Number of seconds to cache the content.
-    cache_age: int
-
-
-class OEmbedError(Exception):
-    """An error occurred processing the oEmbed object."""
+    # The Open Graph result (converted from the oEmbed result).
+    open_graph_result: JsonDict
+    # Number of seconds to cache the content, according to the oEmbed response.
+    #
+    # This will be None if no cache-age is provided in the oEmbed response (or
+    # if the oEmbed response cannot be turned into an Open Graph response).
+    cache_age: Optional[int]
 
 
 class OEmbedProvider:
@@ -81,75 +81,106 @@ class OEmbedProvider:
         """
         for url_pattern, endpoint in self._oembed_patterns.items():
             if url_pattern.fullmatch(url):
-                return endpoint
+                # TODO Specify max height / width.
+
+                # Note that only the JSON format is supported, some endpoints want
+                # this in the URL, others want it as an argument.
+                endpoint = endpoint.replace("{format}", "json")
+
+                args = {"url": url, "format": "json"}
+                query_str = urllib.parse.urlencode(args, True)
+                return f"{endpoint}?{query_str}"
 
         # No match.
         return None
 
-    async def get_oembed_content(self, endpoint: str, url: str) -> OEmbedResult:
+    def parse_oembed_response(self, url: str, raw_body: bytes) -> OEmbedResult:
         """
-        Request content from an oEmbed endpoint.
+        Parse the oEmbed response into an Open Graph response.
 
         Args:
-            endpoint: The oEmbed API endpoint.
-            url: The URL to pass to the API.
+            url: The URL which is being previewed (not the one which was
+                requested).
+            raw_body: The oEmbed response as JSON encoded as bytes.
 
         Returns:
-            An object representing the metadata returned.
-
-        Raises:
-            OEmbedError if fetching or parsing of the oEmbed information fails.
+            json-encoded Open Graph data
         """
+
         try:
-            logger.debug("Trying to get oEmbed content for url '%s'", url)
-
-            # Note that only the JSON format is supported, some endpoints want
-            # this in the URL, others want it as an argument.
-            endpoint = endpoint.replace("{format}", "json")
-
-            result = await self._client.get_json(
-                endpoint,
-                # TODO Specify max height / width.
-                args={"url": url, "format": "json"},
-            )
+            # oEmbed responses *must* be UTF-8 according to the spec.
+            oembed = json_decoder.decode(raw_body.decode("utf-8"))
 
             # Ensure there's a version of 1.0.
-            if result.get("version") != "1.0":
-                raise OEmbedError("Invalid version: %s" % (result.get("version"),))
-
-            oembed_type = result.get("type")
+            oembed_version = oembed["version"]
+            if oembed_version != "1.0":
+                raise RuntimeError(f"Invalid version: {oembed_version}")
 
             # Ensure the cache age is None or an int.
-            cache_age = result.get("cache_age")
+            cache_age = oembed.get("cache_age")
             if cache_age:
                 cache_age = int(cache_age)
 
-            oembed_result = OEmbedResult(None, None, result.get("title"), cache_age)
+            # The results.
+            open_graph_response = {"og:title": oembed.get("title")}
 
-            # HTML content.
+            # If a thumbnail exists, use it. Note that dimensions will be calculated later.
+            if "thumbnail_url" in oembed:
+                open_graph_response["og:image"] = oembed["thumbnail_url"]
+
+            # Process each type separately.
+            oembed_type = oembed["type"]
             if oembed_type == "rich":
-                oembed_result.html = result.get("html")
-                return oembed_result
+                calc_description_and_urls(open_graph_response, oembed["html"])
 
-            if oembed_type == "photo":
-                oembed_result.url = result.get("url")
-                return oembed_result
+            elif oembed_type == "photo":
+                # If this is a photo, use the full image, not the thumbnail.
+                open_graph_response["og:image"] = oembed["url"]
 
-            # TODO Handle link and video types.
-
-            if "thumbnail_url" in result:
-                oembed_result.url = result.get("thumbnail_url")
-                return oembed_result
-
-            raise OEmbedError("Incompatible oEmbed information.")
-
-        except OEmbedError as e:
-            # Trap OEmbedErrors first so we can directly re-raise them.
-            logger.warning("Error parsing oEmbed metadata from %s: %r", url, e)
-            raise
+            else:
+                raise RuntimeError(f"Unknown oEmbed type: {oembed_type}")
 
         except Exception as e:
             # Trap any exception and let the code follow as usual.
-            # FIXME: pass through 404s and other error messages nicely
-            logger.warning("Error downloading oEmbed metadata from %s: %r", url, e)
-            raise OEmbedError() from e
+            logger.warning(f"Error parsing oEmbed metadata from {url}: {e:r}")
+            open_graph_response = {}
+            cache_age = None
+
+        return OEmbedResult(open_graph_response, cache_age)
+
+
+def calc_description_and_urls(open_graph_response: JsonDict, html_body: str) -> None:
+    """
+    Calculate description for an HTML document.
+
+    This uses lxml to convert the HTML document into plaintext. If errors
+    occur during processing of the document, an empty response is returned.
+
+    Args:
+        open_graph_response: The current Open Graph summary. This is updated with additional fields.
+        html_body: The HTML document, as bytes.
+
+    Returns:
+        The summary
+    """
+    # If there's no body, nothing useful is going to be found.
+    if not html_body:
+        return
+
+    from lxml import etree
+
+    # Create an HTML parser. If this fails, log and return no metadata.
+    parser = etree.HTMLParser(recover=True, encoding="utf-8")
+
+    # Attempt to parse the body. If this fails, log and return no metadata.
+    tree = etree.fromstring(html_body, parser)
+
+    # The data was successfully parsed, but no tree was found.
+    if tree is None:
+        return
+
+    from synapse.rest.media.v1.preview_url_resource import _calc_description
+
+    description = _calc_description(tree)
+    if description:
+        open_graph_response["og:description"] = description
diff --git a/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py b/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py
index fe0627d9b..0a0b476d2 100644
--- a/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py
+++ b/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ from synapse.logging.context import make_deferred_yieldable, run_in_background
 from synapse.metrics.background_process_metrics import run_as_background_process
 from synapse.rest.media.v1._base import get_filename_from_headers
 from synapse.rest.media.v1.media_storage import MediaStorage
-from synapse.rest.media.v1.oembed import OEmbedError, OEmbedProvider
+from synapse.rest.media.v1.oembed import OEmbedProvider
 from synapse.types import JsonDict
 from synapse.util import json_encoder
 from synapse.util.async_helpers import ObservableDeferred
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ OG_TAG_NAME_MAXLEN = 50
 OG_TAG_VALUE_MAXLEN = 1000
 
 ONE_HOUR = 60 * 60 * 1000
+ONE_DAY = 24 * ONE_HOUR
 
 
 @attr.s(slots=True, frozen=True, auto_attribs=True)
@@ -255,10 +256,19 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(DirectServeJsonResource):
                 og = og.encode("utf8")
             return og
 
-        media_info = await self._download_url(url, user)
+        # If this URL can be accessed via oEmbed, use that instead.
+        url_to_download = url
+        oembed_url = self._oembed.get_oembed_url(url)
+        if oembed_url:
+            url_to_download = oembed_url
+
+        media_info = await self._download_url(url_to_download, user)
 
         logger.debug("got media_info of '%s'", media_info)
 
+        # The number of milliseconds that the response should be considered valid.
+        expiration_ms = media_info.expires
+
         if _is_media(media_info.media_type):
             file_id = media_info.filesystem_id
             dims = await self.media_repo._generate_thumbnails(
@@ -288,34 +298,22 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(DirectServeJsonResource):
             encoding = get_html_media_encoding(body, media_info.media_type)
             og = decode_and_calc_og(body, media_info.uri, encoding)
 
-            # pre-cache the image for posterity
-            # FIXME: it might be cleaner to use the same flow as the main /preview_url
-            # request itself and benefit from the same caching etc.  But for now we
-            # just rely on the caching on the master request to speed things up.
-            if "og:image" in og and og["og:image"]:
-                image_info = await self._download_url(
-                    _rebase_url(og["og:image"], media_info.uri), user
-                )
+            await self._precache_image_url(user, media_info, og)
 
-                if _is_media(image_info.media_type):
-                    # TODO: make sure we don't choke on white-on-transparent images
-                    file_id = image_info.filesystem_id
-                    dims = await self.media_repo._generate_thumbnails(
-                        None, file_id, file_id, image_info.media_type, url_cache=True
-                    )
-                    if dims:
-                        og["og:image:width"] = dims["width"]
-                        og["og:image:height"] = dims["height"]
-                    else:
-                        logger.warning("Couldn't get dims for %s", og["og:image"])
+        elif oembed_url and _is_json(media_info.media_type):
+            # Handle an oEmbed response.
+            with open(media_info.filename, "rb") as file:
+                body = file.read()
+
+            oembed_response = self._oembed.parse_oembed_response(media_info.uri, body)
+            og = oembed_response.open_graph_result
+
+            # Use the cache age from the oEmbed result, instead of the HTTP response.
+            if oembed_response.cache_age is not None:
+                expiration_ms = oembed_response.cache_age
+
+            await self._precache_image_url(user, media_info, og)
 
-                    og[
-                        "og:image"
-                    ] = f"mxc://{self.server_name}/{image_info.filesystem_id}"
-                    og["og:image:type"] = image_info.media_type
-                    og["matrix:image:size"] = image_info.media_length
-                else:
-                    del og["og:image"]
         else:
             logger.warning("Failed to find any OG data in %s", url)
             og = {}
@@ -336,12 +334,15 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(DirectServeJsonResource):
 
         jsonog = json_encoder.encode(og)
 
+        # Cap the amount of time to consider a response valid.
+        expiration_ms = min(expiration_ms, ONE_DAY)
+
         # store OG in history-aware DB cache
         await self.store.store_url_cache(
             url,
             media_info.response_code,
             media_info.etag,
-            media_info.expires + media_info.created_ts_ms,
+            media_info.created_ts_ms + expiration_ms,
             jsonog,
             media_info.filesystem_id,
             media_info.created_ts_ms,
@@ -358,88 +359,52 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(DirectServeJsonResource):
 
         file_info = FileInfo(server_name=None, file_id=file_id, url_cache=True)
 
-        # If this URL can be accessed via oEmbed, use that instead.
-        url_to_download: Optional[str] = url
-        oembed_url = self._oembed.get_oembed_url(url)
-        if oembed_url:
-            # The result might be a new URL to download, or it might be HTML content.
+        with self.media_storage.store_into_file(file_info) as (f, fname, finish):
             try:
-                oembed_result = await self._oembed.get_oembed_content(oembed_url, url)
-                if oembed_result.url:
-                    url_to_download = oembed_result.url
-                elif oembed_result.html:
-                    url_to_download = None
-            except OEmbedError:
-                # If an error occurs, try doing a normal preview.
-                pass
-
-        if url_to_download:
-            with self.media_storage.store_into_file(file_info) as (f, fname, finish):
-                try:
-                    logger.debug("Trying to get preview for url '%s'", url_to_download)
-                    length, headers, uri, code = await self.client.get_file(
-                        url_to_download,
-                        output_stream=f,
-                        max_size=self.max_spider_size,
-                        headers={"Accept-Language": self.url_preview_accept_language},
-                    )
-                except SynapseError:
-                    # Pass SynapseErrors through directly, so that the servlet
-                    # handler will return a SynapseError to the client instead of
-                    # blank data or a 500.
-                    raise
-                except DNSLookupError:
-                    # DNS lookup returned no results
-                    # Note: This will also be the case if one of the resolved IP
-                    # addresses is blacklisted
-                    raise SynapseError(
-                        502,
-                        "DNS resolution failure during URL preview generation",
-                        Codes.UNKNOWN,
-                    )
-                except Exception as e:
-                    # FIXME: pass through 404s and other error messages nicely
-                    logger.warning("Error downloading %s: %r", url_to_download, e)
-
-                    raise SynapseError(
-                        500,
-                        "Failed to download content: %s"
-                        % (traceback.format_exception_only(sys.exc_info()[0], e),),
-                        Codes.UNKNOWN,
-                    )
-                await finish()
-
-                if b"Content-Type" in headers:
-                    media_type = headers[b"Content-Type"][0].decode("ascii")
-                else:
-                    media_type = "application/octet-stream"
-
-                download_name = get_filename_from_headers(headers)
-
-                # FIXME: we should calculate a proper expiration based on the
-                # Cache-Control and Expire headers.  But for now, assume 1 hour.
-                expires = ONE_HOUR
-                etag = (
-                    headers[b"ETag"][0].decode("ascii") if b"ETag" in headers else None
+                logger.debug("Trying to get preview for url '%s'", url)
+                length, headers, uri, code = await self.client.get_file(
+                    url,
+                    output_stream=f,
+                    max_size=self.max_spider_size,
+                    headers={"Accept-Language": self.url_preview_accept_language},
                 )
-        else:
-            # we can only get here if we did an oembed request and have an oembed_result.html
-            assert oembed_result.html is not None
-            assert oembed_url is not None
+            except SynapseError:
+                # Pass SynapseErrors through directly, so that the servlet
+                # handler will return a SynapseError to the client instead of
+                # blank data or a 500.
+                raise
+            except DNSLookupError:
+                # DNS lookup returned no results
+                # Note: This will also be the case if one of the resolved IP
+                # addresses is blacklisted
+                raise SynapseError(
+                    502,
+                    "DNS resolution failure during URL preview generation",
+                    Codes.UNKNOWN,
+                )
+            except Exception as e:
+                # FIXME: pass through 404s and other error messages nicely
+                logger.warning("Error downloading %s: %r", url, e)
 
-            html_bytes = oembed_result.html.encode("utf-8")
-            with self.media_storage.store_into_file(file_info) as (f, fname, finish):
-                f.write(html_bytes)
-                await finish()
+                raise SynapseError(
+                    500,
+                    "Failed to download content: %s"
+                    % (traceback.format_exception_only(sys.exc_info()[0], e),),
+                    Codes.UNKNOWN,
+                )
+            await finish()
 
-            media_type = "text/html"
-            download_name = oembed_result.title
-            length = len(html_bytes)
-            # If a specific cache age was not given, assume 1 hour.
-            expires = oembed_result.cache_age or ONE_HOUR
-            uri = oembed_url
-            code = 200
-            etag = None
+            if b"Content-Type" in headers:
+                media_type = headers[b"Content-Type"][0].decode("ascii")
+            else:
+                media_type = "application/octet-stream"
+
+            download_name = get_filename_from_headers(headers)
+
+            # FIXME: we should calculate a proper expiration based on the
+            # Cache-Control and Expire headers.  But for now, assume 1 hour.
+            expires = ONE_HOUR
+            etag = headers[b"ETag"][0].decode("ascii") if b"ETag" in headers else None
 
         try:
             time_now_ms = self.clock.time_msec()
@@ -474,6 +439,46 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(DirectServeJsonResource):
             etag=etag,
         )
 
+    async def _precache_image_url(
+        self, user: str, media_info: MediaInfo, og: JsonDict
+    ) -> None:
+        """
+        Pre-cache the image (if one exists) for posterity
+
+        Args:
+            user: The user requesting the preview.
+            media_info: The media being previewed.
+            og: The Open Graph dictionary. This is modified with image information.
+        """
+        # If there's no image or it is blank, there's nothing to do.
+        if "og:image" not in og or not og["og:image"]:
+            return
+
+        # FIXME: it might be cleaner to use the same flow as the main /preview_url
+        # request itself and benefit from the same caching etc.  But for now we
+        # just rely on the caching on the master request to speed things up.
+        image_info = await self._download_url(
+            _rebase_url(og["og:image"], media_info.uri), user
+        )
+
+        if _is_media(image_info.media_type):
+            # TODO: make sure we don't choke on white-on-transparent images
+            file_id = image_info.filesystem_id
+            dims = await self.media_repo._generate_thumbnails(
+                None, file_id, file_id, image_info.media_type, url_cache=True
+            )
+            if dims:
+                og["og:image:width"] = dims["width"]
+                og["og:image:height"] = dims["height"]
+            else:
+                logger.warning("Couldn't get dims for %s", og["og:image"])
+
+            og["og:image"] = f"mxc://{self.server_name}/{image_info.filesystem_id}"
+            og["og:image:type"] = image_info.media_type
+            og["matrix:image:size"] = image_info.media_length
+        else:
+            del og["og:image"]
+
     def _start_expire_url_cache_data(self) -> Deferred:
         return run_as_background_process(
             "expire_url_cache_data", self._expire_url_cache_data
@@ -527,7 +532,7 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(DirectServeJsonResource):
         # These may be cached for a bit on the client (i.e., they
         # may have a room open with a preview url thing open).
         # So we wait a couple of days before deleting, just in case.
-        expire_before = now - 2 * 24 * ONE_HOUR
+        expire_before = now - 2 * ONE_DAY
         media_ids = await self.store.get_url_cache_media_before(expire_before)
 
         removed_media = []
@@ -669,7 +674,18 @@ def decode_and_calc_og(
 
 
 def _calc_og(tree: "etree.Element", media_uri: str) -> Dict[str, Optional[str]]:
-    # suck our tree into lxml and define our OG response.
+    """
+    Calculate metadata for an HTML document.
+
+    This uses lxml to search the HTML document for Open Graph data.
+
+    Args:
+        tree: The parsed HTML document.
+        media_url: The URI used to download the body.
+
+    Returns:
+        The Open Graph response as a dictionary.
+    """
 
     # if we see any image URLs in the OG response, then spider them
     # (although the client could choose to do this by asking for previews of those
@@ -743,35 +759,7 @@ def _calc_og(tree: "etree.Element", media_uri: str) -> Dict[str, Optional[str]]:
         if meta_description:
             og["og:description"] = meta_description[0]
         else:
-            # grab any text nodes which are inside the <body/> tag...
-            # unless they are within an HTML5 semantic markup tag...
-            # <header/>, <nav/>, <aside/>, <footer/>
-            # ...or if they are within a <script/> or <style/> tag.
-            # This is a very very very coarse approximation to a plain text
-            # render of the page.
-
-            # We don't just use XPATH here as that is slow on some machines.
-
-            from lxml import etree
-
-            TAGS_TO_REMOVE = (
-                "header",
-                "nav",
-                "aside",
-                "footer",
-                "script",
-                "noscript",
-                "style",
-                etree.Comment,
-            )
-
-            # Split all the text nodes into paragraphs (by splitting on new
-            # lines)
-            text_nodes = (
-                re.sub(r"\s+", "\n", el).strip()
-                for el in _iterate_over_text(tree.find("body"), *TAGS_TO_REMOVE)
-            )
-            og["og:description"] = summarize_paragraphs(text_nodes)
+            og["og:description"] = _calc_description(tree)
     elif og["og:description"]:
         # This must be a non-empty string at this point.
         assert isinstance(og["og:description"], str)
@@ -782,6 +770,46 @@ def _calc_og(tree: "etree.Element", media_uri: str) -> Dict[str, Optional[str]]:
     return og
 
 
+def _calc_description(tree: "etree.Element") -> Optional[str]:
+    """
+    Calculate a text description based on an HTML document.
+
+    Grabs any text nodes which are inside the <body/> tag, unless they are within
+    an HTML5 semantic markup tag (<header/>, <nav/>, <aside/>, <footer/>), or
+    if they are within a <script/> or <style/> tag.
+
+    This is a very very very coarse approximation to a plain text render of the page.
+
+    Args:
+        tree: The parsed HTML document.
+
+    Returns:
+        The plain text description, or None if one cannot be generated.
+    """
+    # We don't just use XPATH here as that is slow on some machines.
+
+    from lxml import etree
+
+    TAGS_TO_REMOVE = (
+        "header",
+        "nav",
+        "aside",
+        "footer",
+        "script",
+        "noscript",
+        "style",
+        etree.Comment,
+    )
+
+    # Split all the text nodes into paragraphs (by splitting on new
+    # lines)
+    text_nodes = (
+        re.sub(r"\s+", "\n", el).strip()
+        for el in _iterate_over_text(tree.find("body"), *TAGS_TO_REMOVE)
+    )
+    return summarize_paragraphs(text_nodes)
+
+
 def _iterate_over_text(
     tree: "etree.Element", *tags_to_ignore: Iterable[Union[str, "etree.Comment"]]
 ) -> Generator[str, None, None]:
@@ -841,11 +869,25 @@ def _is_html(content_type: str) -> bool:
     )
 
 
+def _is_json(content_type: str) -> bool:
+    return content_type.lower().startswith("application/json")
+
+
 def summarize_paragraphs(
     text_nodes: Iterable[str], min_size: int = 200, max_size: int = 500
 ) -> Optional[str]:
-    # Try to get a summary of between 200 and 500 words, respecting
-    # first paragraph and then word boundaries.
+    """
+    Try to get a summary respecting first paragraph and then word boundaries.
+
+    Args:
+        text_nodes: The paragraphs to summarize.
+        min_size: The minimum number of words to include.
+        max_size: The maximum number of words to include.
+
+    Returns:
+        A summary of the text nodes, or None if that was not possible.
+    """
+
     # TODO: Respect sentences?
 
     description = ""
@@ -868,7 +910,7 @@ def summarize_paragraphs(
         new_desc = ""
 
         # This splits the paragraph into words, but keeping the
-        # (preceeding) whitespace intact so we can easily concat
+        # (preceding) whitespace intact so we can easily concat
         # words back together.
         for match in re.finditer(r"\s*\S+", description):
             word = match.group()
diff --git a/tests/rest/media/v1/test_url_preview.py b/tests/rest/media/v1/test_url_preview.py
index 9f6fbfe6d..9d1389958 100644
--- a/tests/rest/media/v1/test_url_preview.py
+++ b/tests/rest/media/v1/test_url_preview.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ from synapse.config.oembed import OEmbedEndpointConfig
 
 from tests import unittest
 from tests.server import FakeTransport
+from tests.test_utils import SMALL_PNG
 
 try:
     import lxml
@@ -576,13 +577,6 @@ class URLPreviewTests(unittest.HomeserverTestCase):
         }
         oembed_content = json.dumps(result).encode("utf-8")
 
-        end_content = (
-            b"<html><head>"
-            b"<title>Some Title</title>"
-            b'<meta property="og:description" content="hi" />'
-            b"</head></html>"
-        )
-
         channel = self.make_request(
             "GET",
             "preview_url?url=http://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/12345",
@@ -606,6 +600,7 @@ class URLPreviewTests(unittest.HomeserverTestCase):
 
         self.pump()
 
+        # Ensure a second request is made to the photo URL.
         client = self.reactor.tcpClients[1][2].buildProtocol(None)
         server = AccumulatingProtocol()
         server.makeConnection(FakeTransport(client, self.reactor))
@@ -613,18 +608,23 @@ class URLPreviewTests(unittest.HomeserverTestCase):
         client.dataReceived(
             (
                 b"HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: %d\r\n"
-                b'Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf8"\r\n\r\n'
+                b"Content-Type: image/png\r\n\r\n"
             )
-            % (len(end_content),)
-            + end_content
+            % (len(SMALL_PNG),)
+            + SMALL_PNG
         )
 
         self.pump()
 
+        # Ensure the URL is what was requested.
+        self.assertIn(b"/matrixdotorg", server.data)
+
         self.assertEqual(channel.code, 200)
-        self.assertEqual(
-            channel.json_body, {"og:title": "Some Title", "og:description": "hi"}
-        )
+        self.assertIsNone(channel.json_body["og:title"])
+        self.assertTrue(channel.json_body["og:image"].startswith("mxc://"))
+        self.assertEqual(channel.json_body["og:image:height"], 1)
+        self.assertEqual(channel.json_body["og:image:width"], 1)
+        self.assertEqual(channel.json_body["og:image:type"], "image/png")
 
     def test_oembed_rich(self):
         """Test an oEmbed endpoint which returns HTML content via the 'rich' type."""