When I try to share a link using the feed dialog, I'm no longer able to define the caption.
As it's not possible anymore since July 17th to send caption as arguments in the FB:ui call, could you tell me how can I do it now.
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I'm trying to find the right open graph tag to add but I can't find it anywhere.
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I am implementing a facebook share button in an angularjs app and after doing all the necessary stuff to get my meta tags updated and read by Facebook's crawler, I am seeing a mismatch between Facebook's debugger tool and what the share dialog shows.
If I run the debugger on my link, I get a successful scrape that pulls all of the meta tag content and shows what the share dialog should look like. Then if I click on the preview to see that actual share dialog, I get a different result as if it is not reading the meta tag content. The same goes for the share button on my actual website.
Any thoughts?
This might be an issue with protocol inconsistancy. Check you're not using http:// on the debugger, vs https:// on the actual site, and vice versa. Ensure all of your og tags have the correct protocol set, and that the protocol is not omitted.
Facebook provides a javascript SDK where you can specify what data you want to be in your popup. If you want complete control over the dialog then it would probably be best to use FB.ui to do so.
According to fb, the feed dialog is now deprecated, so I'm trying to use the new share dialog with open graph metas, all work however, the old feed dialog had a link attribute to point to any URL I want, my question is, is there anything similar in the new share dialog, the reason I need this is because my app is going to be loaded inside an iframe in different domains and I need to change the URL dynamically, thanks for any help
I am posting an Open Graph story using the graph API but the post is not shown anywhere on my Facebook wall and there is nothing in my Activity Log either.
I configured the story in the App dashboard. The object has one custom property and it is a self hosted object with a public URL. I used the object debugger tool https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug to make sure that all the metatags (including the one for the custom property) are there and no errors are shown.
Then I make this call to post the story:
https://graph.facebook.com/me/namespace:action?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN&method=POST&result=MY_OBJECT_PUBLIC_URL
and I get the post ID in the response:
{
"id": "SOME_ID"
}
I can even get all the information related to the post using the graph API with the Post ID returned.
HOWEVER, I DON'T SEE THE POST ANYWHERE ON MY FACEBOOK WALL, NEWS FEED or ACTIVITY LOG.
Any ideas of what might be happening?
I am having a related problem (I think). Let me first say that I use our own Action Types and Stories (i.e. https://graph.facebook.com/me/:).
What I noticed is that while the action does not appear on my wall, it shows up on my friends' News Feed (so even if I can't see it, they can "like" and "comment" on it), and also putting it's ID on the Open Graph Action Debugger tool, I can see the post's details.
BUT, what I also noticed is that it shows up in my activity log! (button on the right-bottom position of your cover image) Then, if you go to each activity entry, there is a small icon on the right with a pencil on it. Clicking on it, it shows that this means that the activity/action/post/whatever is "allowed" on your timeline. But, if you change that to Show to Timeline, it will actually be shown!
So, I think this is where you/we should look further (for example a setting/permission request to enable this by default -- not sure if anything like that exists though).
First at all you need to get approval for every item of your open graph story. You can test your application without approval un-publishing it and adding some user as testers in the Role settings.
Now, to see your open graph activity in your timeline after publish you should configure the Additional Capabilities for you action type. So you need to check the Explicitly Shared option in the Capabilities section for you action. After that you need to include the parameter fb:explicitly_shared=true in the open graph call.
You can take a look to the Additional Capabilities here : https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/opengraph/using-actions#capabilities
Explicit shared should be added in the post parameters.
Refer this link
You may need to enable the 'explicity shared' setting for the open graph action in the Facebook Developer App Dashboard in the website.
You need to add "fb:explicitly_shared" action parameter with value 'true' while posting it.
Also you need to toggle explicitly_shared in Actions' properties configuration page.
You need to be an administer of the app otherwise you will need to get the Stories approved by Facebook.
Hope this could help.
I could totally be wrong, but you may need to submit your Open Graph action to Facebook for approval. And you'll need to set explicit sharing if you want your action to show in places other than your own timeline and activity.
I say I could be wrong because you should at least be able to see your action within your activity log. It's difficult to say without looking more closely at your Open Graph Action and Object.
I had the same issue, I could post the stories but could not see it on the timeline, issue was FBDisplayName in the app has to be same as the one configured in the FB developer console.
make sure to add the Canvas URL under the "App on Facebook" section, I hope it works for you
Im using Facebook's like button plugin on my own website product pages, also using opengraph tags
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Everything seems to work fine, the problem is when people 'like' a product, the comment box shows up but if they leave it empty only single line is posted on their feed like:
Jon Doe has liked "title here".
But when they write that comment when they click Like or even post the the link manually all the image,text,description information is correctly displayed.
Anyone knows how to fix this?
Well, that’s the basic difference between a like and a share. Since Facebook has merged these to functionalities into one social plugin, it’s up to the user which action he takes.
The old share button has been deprecated, so not much use in implementing it now, because even if it’s still possible(?) it will stop working eventually.
If you want shares instead of likes, your one alternative IMHO is implementing the Feed Dialog on your site, triggered by a click on a button of you own making.
I'm trying to get my application to post photos to a user's timeline using the user generated picture feature of Open Graph. Unfortunately, while I can easily get the picture to the user's timeline, I haven't found any documented way to pass along a caption.
Instagram seems to have figured it out: http://i.stack.imgur.com/TYsiX.png
Yet, if you go to the page of one of their posts, you'll notice that the caption isn't present in any of the Open Graph meta tags, so I'm guessing this is a value passed along with the POST.
Any suggestions?
There is an optional message attribute that you can pass to the action:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/define-actions/
Under optional arguments.
It takes special approval when you submit your action for approval
You should add "User Messages" Property in the followed image.
And then Give your caption in "message" tag.