I'm not sure if this is new behaviour or if it didn't work at all.
So I'm using the LinkedIn Customized URL feature, you can look it up here. The URL looks like this:
https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://developer.linkedin.com&title=LinkedIn%20Developer%20Network&summary=My%20favorite%20developer%20program&source=LinkedIn
Once I share the URL the provided summary is not shown in the post preview:
So I tried with other services like Youtube, Reddit etc. and all posts do not include the provided summary.
Unfortunately I can't provide you the open-graph tags I used on my site as it's running in a corporate environment and I'm not sure if I can provide these snippets as of now.
However, running linkedin's Post Inspector shows that it detects my summary without problems:
Values are in German if anyone wonders...
So my quick and fairly simple questions, which might be answered in a comment as well, are:
Did linkedin change something on their side?
Is there some other undocumented property which neither youtube nor me included in the customized URL and therefore the summary does not show up?
Is there any post from linkedin developers which note this change?
Was it like that all the time or is it just a temporary thing?
Main Problem People are Experiencing: You cannot display BOTH an image and a description. You may only use one. Indicating an OG tag for image means your description will not display. Source: Arguing with LinkedIn Support for 2 Weeks.
LinkedIn only supports one parameter in their share content now:
https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url={url}
Source: Microsoft LinkedIn Share URL Documentation.
If you want to specify title and summary, then you need the og tags, but these are things LinkedIn associates with the URL, and it doesn't populate in the message body.
Otherwise, this works for me:
https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=http://www.wikipedia.org/
Works fine:
If you are interested in a regularly maintained GitHub project that keeps track of this so you don't have to, check it out! Social Share URLs
LinkedIn now uses the Open Graph tags to show the preview.
Below are the og:tags that must exist and their correct format:
<meta property='og:title' content='Title of the article"/>
<meta property='og:image' content='//media.example.com/ 1234567.jpg"/>
<meta property='og:description' content='Description that will show in the preview"/>
<meta property='og:url' content='//www.example.com/URL of the article" />
And the sharing url is changed to:
https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=your_encoded_url
Please see this Making Your Website Shareable on LinkedIn
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I've seen it several times on my facebook timeline where the image of a shared link is not in the post itself. Example:
https://www.facebook.com/BarakaBits/posts/1065758210116791 - Image has text on it.
screenshot
Here's the post itself: http://www.barakabits.com/2015/01/beauty-moroccos-diversity-captured-stunning-photo-series
Is this a hidden image? I'm using a wordpress blog, how can I do this? Do I need a special plugin?
Thank you in advance!
Wil
I don't know exactly what this site is doing, but you can suggest that Facebook use a specific image (not necessarily one found on the page) by using the og:image Open Graph tag. For example, something like this would go in the <head> portion of your site:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.barakabits.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Moroccos-faces-featured-6.jpg">
As you can see from the site you referenced, you can have multiple og:image tags, and the user will be able to choose which one is displayed in the post.
Here's Facebook's guide to Open Graph tags: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices
I'm develop sucsongmoi.net (vietnamese language) and when viewer share link of site from their wall some link facebook get description and image, some link facebook could not get description and image.
eg: share sucsognmoi.net facebook do not get description, image
but when i share: sucsongmoi.net/nau-gi-hom-nay-84.html facebook could get description and image.
I feel odd because I implement same code for this.
when I share through:
https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://www.sucsongmoi.net/?a=1
then it works. Is that facebook cache my site (như google index)? Then how can I update it?
thanks in advance
Here is a great tool facebook provides us to deal with exactly these issues -
Meet facebook's URL Debugger. With regard to YOUR problems, you can see from this report that facebook is unable to retrieve the title & url og:tags.... this is possibly due to the non-standard character set that you are using... can you try change the og:title value to something with only regular English letters? Or alternatively placing some Unicode characters instead.
I can not see ANY og:tags in your source. You can read more about Open Graph and the og:tags on this link.
Basically you have to place these tags in your page so that facebook can know what information to take and display when a user shares your url.
For example :
<meta property="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/rock.jpg"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="IMDb"/>
This will tell facebook about the image to use and the website name.
If you want to control the information that is shown when your link is posted in a Facebook status then you must add some Open Graph tags to the head section of your web page.
They are explained here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/
I'm integrating a Like button in the individual blog posts on my company's website ( www.atlas-games.com , blog by CLASSIC Blogger at http://blog.atlas-games.com ... can't use a widget). Unfortunately the metadata isn't passing through, so in Facebook it looks like:
Michelle Nephew likes a link.
Atlas Games: Charting New Realms of Imagination <--website's name, not post title
The item links work correctly on "link" and "Atlas Games ..." directing to the individual post, but it's using generic text rather than the individual post's title, the site name I specified for Facebook, and the image.
Object Debugger comes up with Inferred Property errors for URL, Title, and Image, though I specify them in the header of my page. For some reason Facebook just isn't finding the metadata, seems like. See the report here:
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.atlas-games.com%2F
I'm having trouble posting my code here ... View Source, though, and you'll see the Meta Property tags in the header and the iframe in the post's footer code (commented out right now).
This is the third time over the course of several months that I've spent hours trying to get this to work, with no luck, so it's not a temporary issue. Any suggestions?
It seems like the structure of the HTML might be the issue as it could be stopping Facebook finding the Open Graph tags.
Fixing these validation errors might allow the tags to be parsed:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.atlas-games.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
Also there are some template variables in the OG tags which aren't being replaced with values:
<meta property="og:title" content="<$BlogItemTitle$>" />
I have the same problem on my blog! And I can't even insert html for the facebook like button directly from facebook developers, into my blog, my blogger blog tells me that the html is erred. I think it has something to do with blogger being a google blog and google now having google+. I noticed all my problems began when google+ came out, I think google is possibly screwing up the facebook like buttons on google sites, to gain monopoly through "share on google+" .
I used the FB page linter to verify that all the meta information I'm using is correct. According to the graph url, my page id is 157797447612809, yet when I try to publish a checkin to this page, i receive the error:
(#100) Requires a valid Place Page ID
Surprisingly, there is no good information about publishing a checkin to an open graph page available anywhere on the internet. I've used every possible variation of my place page ID that I could imagine, from the URL to page id's of different pages, yet I always get this same error. Does anyone have an example on how this should be accomplished? Thanks!
Since there is absolutely no documentation by Facebook on this matter, I solved this by looking at what foursquare has done and a lot of trial and error.
When defining your open graph object within facebook, you must add a property of type GeoPoint. I called mine location. Define in the object page meta like this:
<meta property="mytestapp:location:latitude" content="37.791" />
<meta property="mytestapp:location:longitude" content="-122.395" />
Now when you debug/lint this object it register as a place, just like the foursquare HQ. You can check in and create map views for actions that include this object.
I think you'd need to add at least the location related tags e.g. og:longitude & og:latitude.
See this graph output for a page that has these og tags and checkins.
http://graph.facebook.com/149998791679075
http://foursquare.com/venue/128530
BTW: I hope you get the irony of this example 8)
I'm also not sure if you can checkin to a og:type=food page. It may have to be one of the places types e.g. landmark - see types info on the OpenGraph page. However the example above is for og:type=company so you'd need to test the different types to see.
The Geopoint object is described here:
https://developers.dev.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/complextypes/#geopoint
Example:
<meta property="your-og-app:location:latitude" content="37.416382">
<meta property="your-og-app:location:longitude" content="-122.152659">
<meta property="your-og-app:location:altitude" content="42">
I have spent too many hours on this but it doesn't seem possible. Then I came accross with this answer. I think this feature is currently open only to Foursquare. Facebook API docs doesn't have anything related to this.
i developed a website
ut when i share any page
in facebook
facebook should recognize my page
and select images to select a thumbnail
but this do not happen in my website
as if facebook can not recognize my page
or cannot read it and select images from it
what should i do
to let facebook recognize my page
and load all images in the page to
navigate left and right to select a thumb for the shared page
Looks like the question has already been answered here. Here is another useful link. Thanks for asking. It made me find out something I can use.
Update: After trying it and finding it not to work I tried the method in this post. It initially didn't work, but that was because I forgot to upload the image. So it may be the case that the original method may still work. Here's the template I used in my head section:
<meta property="og:title" content="your title">
<meta property="og:description" content="your description">
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.yoursite.com/your-image.jpg">
Update 2: If it seems that Facebook isn't recognizing your code, try their lint tool. This does two things. The obvious one is that it reports any errors in your code. The second is that it refreshes Facebook's cache of the page. I had two pages where the new code wasn't recognized until I did this.
From my own tests, Facebook should find images on your site with no problem, so long as they appear directly in the html (as <img src="path/to/img.png" />1) and not via css (background-image: url(path/to/img.png);).
This is my own-site test, at: http://davidrhysthomas.co.uk/so/fbookImg.html, admittedly this doesn't have a 'share this page' button, so requires you to log into Facebook first, which might make a difference. But I don't have a Facebook developer account with which to test that theory, unfortunately.
Either absolute, or relative, paths seem to make no difference.
from my experience using a drupal site the logo was not recognized because the drupal system renders a relative path. changing this to a full path with http:// and refreshing FB's cache should work