diff --git a/src/components/views/messages/TextualBody.js b/src/components/views/messages/TextualBody.js
index 190b1341c3..209fba30aa 100644
--- a/src/components/views/messages/TextualBody.js
+++ b/src/components/views/messages/TextualBody.js
@@ -143,9 +143,15 @@ module.exports = React.createClass({
         if (this.props.showUrlPreview && !this.state.links.length) {
             var links = this.findLinks(this.refs.content.children);
             if (links.length) {
-                this.setState({ links: links.map((link)=>{
-                    return link.getAttribute("href");
-                })});
+                // de-dup the links
+                const seen = new Set();
+                links = links.filter((link) => {
+                    if (seen.has(link)) return false;
+                    seen.add(link);
+                    return true;
+                });
+
+                this.setState({ links: links });
 
                 // lazy-load the hidden state of the preview widget from localstorage
                 if (global.localStorage) {
@@ -158,12 +164,13 @@ module.exports = React.createClass({
 
     findLinks: function(nodes) {
         var links = [];
+
         for (var i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) {
             var node = nodes[i];
             if (node.tagName === "A" && node.getAttribute("href"))
             {
                 if (this.isLinkPreviewable(node)) {
-                    links.push(node);
+                    links.push(node.getAttribute("href"));
                 }
             }
             else if (node.tagName === "PRE" || node.tagName === "CODE" ||