I'm using the video embed feature (via iframe or JavaScript) to embed a Facebook live video on a website. This works fine on desktop, but the video won't play on mobile devices (iOS & Android). It shows the image but asks the user to play the video in the Facebook app. Is there an option to directly play it in the browser?
This is the embed code:
<!-- Load Facebook SDK for JavaScript -->
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>
<!-- Your embedded video player code -->
<div class="fb-video" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/[PAGE-ID]/videos/[VIDEO-ID]/" data-width="500" data-show-text="false"></div>
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I'm creating a Facebook page plugin using the tool here, and I was lead to believe I would have the option of selecting HTML5 from a drop down box.
However, there are no options to select from.
I only see:
Include the JavaScript SDK on your page once, ideally right after the opening <body> tag.
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=171705736232531";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>
Place the code for your plugin wherever you want the plugin to appear on your page.
<div class="fb-page" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/example.com" data-tabs="timeline" data-small-header="false" data-adapt-container-width="true" data-hide-cover="false" data-show-facepile="true"><div class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><blockquote cite="https://www.facebook.com/example.com">Example</blockquote></div></div>
Is this code HTML5 by default?
Is this code HTML5 by default?
Yes, HTML5 would seem to be the default (and only) option these days.
Previously, there were additional options for "XFBML", "IFRAME" and "URL". But these would have resulted in very different plugin code to copy 'n' paste.
I came across something strange; the Facebok Page Plugin doesn't load on mobile only if it's for a specific Facebook page.
My code:
<div id="fb-root"> </div>
<script>
(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s);
js.id = id;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.4&appId=1591121954498982";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));
</script>
<div class="fb-page" data-adapt-container-width="true" data-height="350" data-hide-cover="false" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/סיפורי-פירות-Fruit-Story/410067012494711?fref=ts" data-show-facepile="true" data-show-posts="true" data-small-header="false"> </div>
Changing just this line:
data-href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/סיפורי-פירות-Fruit-Story/410067012494711?fref=ts"
to another page's URL such as:
data-href="https://www.facebook.com/CocaColaUnitedStates?fref=ts"
...makes the plugin load fine.
Is it because the page URL contains Hebrew? Is there a relevant page setting?
I set up a small demo page:
http://s-fruit.co.il/facebook-test.html
Found the cause!
This is an intentional (though peculiar) behavior of Facebook when dealing with age-restricted pages and guest users (not logged in, as it often happens on mobile browsers as most use the app).
Why not simply display a login prompt? Some paraphrased info? Who knows. At least the mystery is solved.
An official response can be found here:
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/828224027247232/
I have implemented the Facebook comments plugin to a page on my site. In addition to this I would like to be bale to moderate the comments. I followed the instructions on the Facebook developer section and implemented as described. I wanted to use the inline moderation tool rather than create an app. So I placed the following meta data.
<meta property="fb:admins" content="533551342"/>
Where the content is set to my Facebook profile ID.
I have then placed the script code as per Facebook developer instructions.
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>
(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=672941899483225&version=v2.3";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));
</script>
Once that is in place, I added the comments section to the site using the code instructed.
<div class="fb-comments" data-href="http://www.microspot.com/case-studies/boat_design.htm" data-width="540" data-numposts="10" data-colorscheme="light"></div>
So with all this in place the comments section shows and works, but the moderate link does not appear next to the number of posts text (which is what should happen according to face books documentation).
The web page is http://www.microspot.com/case-studies/boat_design.htm
Thanks in advance.
It seems the issue was not with the code but with Facebook re-indexing my changes. There is a tool on the Facebook developer page for debugging and indexing your changes.
Any update you make to the Facebook code on your webpage, especially the meta data, you should always use the following debug tool.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
Simply paste your webpage link (should be a live page not local) into the box and follow the instructions each time you make a change.
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>
(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=672941899483225&version=v2.3";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));
</script>
I am using facebooks's share button, exactly as specified in https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/share-button/.
I tried the HTML5 and XFBML versions, but both generate the link below, which returns http error 500 when the user submits. If I manually remove the app_id parameter (which I did not inform anywhere), it works perfectly.
https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?app_id=309437425817038&sdk=joey&u=http%3A%2F%2Fg1.globo.com%2Feconomia%2Fnoticia%2F2014%2F05%2Fministro-da-fazenda-diz-que-nao-vai-faltar-energia-no-pais.html&display=popup
I am using this from my company's intranet, to share a link from the company's external website.
This is my code:
<!-- Facebook -->
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/pt_BR/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.0";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>
<fb:share-button href="<SHARED_URL>" type="button_count"></fb:share-button>
<!-- <div class="fb-share-button" data-href="<SHARED_URL>" data-type="button_count"></div>-->
So where does this app_id comes from? How do I get rid of it? I want to use the button with the share count, therefore I wouldn't like to call sharer.php directly.
I'm using the standard Facebook comments social plugin in iPhone iOS Safari Browser but its fonts and width are very small.
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>
<div class="fb-comments" data-href="http://example.com" data-num-posts="5" mobile="true"></div>
Setting the mobile attribute directly didn't help too.
Does anybody know a solution?
I was missing this statement inside my HTML web page:
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0"/>
</head>
After adding the statement, the Facebook Comments widget automatically adjusted to the iOS Safari browser.