diff --git a/check-lead-picture.sh b/check-lead-picture.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..24be45c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/check-lead-picture.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -eu
+
+lang="en es ja cz fr pt pl de it ko zh tr cn"
+
+if ! cmd=$(command -v curl)
+then
+  echo "please install curl"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if (( $# == 0 ))
+then
+  feed="https://weeklyosm.eu/feed"
+  article_id=$(curl -Ls "$feed" | grep "<link>https://weeklyosm.eu/archives/" | head -n 1 | cut -d "<" -f 2 | grep -o '[^/]*$')
+else
+  article_id=$1
+fi
+echo "checking for weekly https://weeklyosm.eu/archives/$article_id"
+
+exit_code=0
+for i in $lang
+do
+  article_url="https://weeklyosm.eu/$i/archives/$article_id"
+  sourcecode=$(curl -Ls "$article_url")
+  echo "$sourcecode" | grep "og:image" | grep "favicon" > /dev/random && echo "wrong share image for language $i in $article_url"
+  no_of_leadpics=$(echo "$sourcecode" | grep 'alt="lead picture"' | wc -l)
+  if [ $no_of_leadpics -ge 2 ]
+  then
+    echo "more than one lead picture ($no_of_leadpics) found for language $i in $article_url"
+    exit_code=2
+  fi
+done
+
+exit $exit_code
+
diff --git a/runenvweekly2all.sh b/runenvweekly2all.sh
index 1444a2b..a222e51 100755
--- a/runenvweekly2all.sh
+++ b/runenvweekly2all.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
+set -e
+bash check-lead-picture.sh
 source spamenv/bin/activate
 export PYTHONIOENCODING="UTF-8"
 export LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8"