I am working on a site where posts are made and I'd like to give visitors the ability to "share" a particular post that they link on their timeline. I have never done any social media integration, but I followed the instructions here and am still having problems. It's easier to show you than try to explain it. Go to http://www.badcustomerbureau.com/ and click on any of the Share links at the top of any post. Instead of sharing the post you clicked on, it tries to share a generic post with the same photo every time (photo of a dog). I used the code generator on the FB help site and it still has this issue. Please help!
The problem is in your meta tags. if you want your users to share any post to their timelines,then u have to give proper meta tags for each post.for eg: you have to pass the image name,title and description of particular post
<meta property="og:title" content="Worlds Worst Customer" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.badcustomerbureau.com/uploads/evidence/62.JPG" />
OR
You can also call a javascript function onclick of your share button.like
<button type="submit" title="Share" onclick="Javascript:fbSharing('https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=" + post_url + "');>
and add javascript function to your page
<script>
function fbSharing(post_url) {
var url = new String(post_url);
window.open(post_url , "share_dialog", "width=500,height=300");
}
</script>
Related
I'm using custom AddThis buttons to share things in Twitter and Facebook... for Twitter share I use:
addthis:templates="{ twitter: ' {{title}} # {{url}} via #agenciauzzye' }"
I know that for the Facebook custom description, title, url, image and other things I must have to use meta tags. The problem is that I have a blog with one static page and all the content (posts) are loaded inside one div with AJAX. The main page is a posts list where I have the buttons to share each post...
How do you guys share content in Facebook with AddThis without set up the meta tags???
The only solution I found is to use direct Facebook share URL, without pass by AddThis code (and so, without log for analysis). Something like:
<a onClick="window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s=100&p[summary]=<?php echo rawurlencode(striptags(abrev_texto(get_output($descricao),1000,"p"," ...",true)));?>&p[title]=<?php echo rawurlencode(get_output($post->titulo));?>&p[url]=<?php echo rawurlencode(ROOT_SERVER . ROOT . "blog/" . $urlAux); ?>&&p[images][0]=<?php echo rawurlencode($imageShare);?>','sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=548,height=325');" href="javascript: void(0)"></a>
You can see more details in http://blog.uzzye.com
Luckily the Facebook developers were smart enough to realize they cannot predict every type of web page on the internet. Instead, they offer a few simple meta tags that control how this information is passed to Facebook:
title: <meta name=”title” content=”The title of the link being shared” />
short description: <meta name=”description” content=”A description of the page” />
optional thumbnail image: <link rel=”image_src” href=”http://example.com/images/image.jpg” />
That’s all you need to tell Facebook what to populate in the link details when someone shares your page with others on Facebook.
Is there a special url for sharing to Facebook and Twitter for mobile?
Or are they the same as those from websites?
Using
<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Twitter
for Twitter and
<script>
function fbs_click()
{
u='www.something';
t='title';
window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');
return false;
}
</script>
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=someurl" onclick="return fbs_click()" target="_blank" class="">Facebook</a>
for Facebook.
Your sharing implementation should be the same and should work so long as your mobile users have devices capable or rendering JavaScript. Otherwise you can use each platforms' API url to share inside a link, the only problem is the callback redirects them either to Twitter or Facebook and they'll have to manually return to your site. The links are as below:
Sharing on Facebook:
http://m.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<urlencoded url>t=<urlencoded title>
For example:
http://m.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.google.com
Updating status on Twitter:
http://mobile.twitter.com/home?status=<urlencoded status>
A couple of notes regarding Simpleton's answer.
The http://m.facebook.com/sharer.php URL may not be what you want. The site that you provide in the u query parameter needs to have some tags in the page in order for the share
page to be at all interesting. Just try putting another URL in there other than Google to see what I mean. I was never really able to figure out what it is looking for in the page of the site in order to show anything useful in your share page. I did not see any way to provide extra information about the site you are sharing.
The t query parameter is no longer read by facebook as far as I could tell
I found that the Facebook feed dialog was a better sharing alternative (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/feed/). See the example at the bottom of that page for the information you can share. Paste that example URL in to your browser to see what it looks like. You can play around with the parameters to see what each parameter controls in the post. For example, if you don't provide the caption parameter, it seems that the base URL of the link parameter is used in it's place. To use the feed dialog approach, you need to register your app in Facebook to get an app_id that you will need to include in the feed dialog URL. You also associate your app with a web site URL, which you also use in the feed dialog URL. If you want Facebook to serve you a mobile-friendly page, append &display=touch to the end of the feed dialog URL. Lastly, you must provide redirect_uri parameter where the user will be redirected (with the post ID included as a query parameter), so you have to have something at that URL to handle the response.
Regarding the http://mobile.twitter.com/home?status URL, I learned a couple of things: first, any URL's in include in the status will not be shortened (bummer); second, if your status includes any single quotes, they will be encoded as ' (HTML entity code) but will not get decoded when your post the tweet. However, this doesn't happen if you are posting via the desktop, using the same URL. You can see what I mean by trying the following URL from both your iPhone (I was using Safari on iPhone) and then from your desktop (I was using Safari):
http://mobile.twitter.com/home?status=Wayne's%20World
Note, I do an javascript encodeURI on the status, but single quotes are not generally encodable characters by most URL/I encoders. There are some that will replace the single quote with a %27, but I tried inserting that manually and it still didn't get decoded in the status text.
I hope this information helps someone comes here looking for simple Facebook and Twitter sharing options.
Twitter - This is how I solved the tweet by url for all devices/browsers issue:
http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text= + encodeURIComponent(tweet);
encodeURIComponent - is a built in javascript function, explained here.
The 'http://mobile.twitter.com/home?status=' is not supported, and you will get encoding issues when twitter requests a login.
Facebook - For facebook sharing I used Facebook API example
The url is ok, but you need to do some work on your server to get Facebook to really make it look decent. Facebook now uses "Open Graph", which allows you to add special tags to your web page that Facebook understands. You can define what types of media are on the page, even add your own objects with definitions you create inside your Facebook app. The link to the developer Open Graph objects page is Here.
A sample of Open Graph on a detail page might look like this:
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="YOUR FACEBOOK_APP_ID }}" />
<meta property="og:url" content="The URL that this page is on" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Your domain" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Title of your page" />
<meta property="og:type" content="This is very important - it is how
Facebook refers to your post. Image, video, text, etc. Even custom stuff is
possible" />
<meta property="og:image" content="image url for facebook to display on
the user's wall" />
<meta property="og:determiner" content="auto" />
<meta property="og:description" content="A description you want with this
content" />
And so on. This all goes in the <head> of the page of the actual url you are supplying to Facebook. Then Facebook will translate this into the appropriate post. In addition, you need to set up the Open Graph on your apps developer page, so that Facebook knows to look for the og: tags. It's complicated, but it does work.
Good luck!
I am using Facebook Send button in 3 pages of my website. Before i send the message, the title, website and description looks fine. After i send, it shows up different title and different description in the message . I have no idea what's wrong in here? Is that my mistake somewhere or cache issue or something else?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Facebook has a tool called URL Linter. This tool gives us an idea about how a url will be shared on facebook, what content, which image will be fetched. We can use this tool for any url and it fetches the latest title, description, excerpt and other stuff that will be shown while sharing the link. If you use an already shared URL with this tool then facebook fetches the latest content, and also updates it cache with the latest content.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
At first you have to cross check and confirm that the url shared is of the right page, not the simple domain address. It will be better to cross check the following contents inside <Head> tag to make sure that you have done basic code requirements.
<link href="{URL OF THE PAGE}" rel="canonical">
<meta content="{YOUR FB APP ID}" property="fb:app_id">
<meta content="{YOUR PAGE TITLE}" property="og:title">
<meta content="website" property="og:type">
<meta content="{URL OF THE PAGE}" property="og:url">
<meta content="{LOGO IMAGE URL}" property="og:image">
<meta content="{YOUR SITE NAME}" property="og:site_name">
Once this is done, it should mostly resolve your issue with different title and different description.
If you still face issue, go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
Input URL or Access Token and click DEBUG button. It will guide you if there is any errors in the in accessing the page by facebook.
Hope this helps.
When someone posts a link to a web site in Facebook, it populates the link preview box with a photo and some text from the site.
If someone posts a link to my site in Facebook, it is generally just get the site's domain name and one of the images that appears on the site. No text appears.
I would like to be able to control what text and images appear in the link. Is there a specification that they use? Can I provide some metadata so Facebook will display what I want?
Here is Facebook's developer page on their share function.
Basically there are some simple metatags you can use to optimize what appears on FB
<meta name="title" content="title" />
<meta name="description" content="description " />
<link rel="image_src" href="thumbnail_image" / >
AND:
The wiki article doesn't mention this, but Facebook CACHES the results of your site for awhile. So, if you're debugging & doing quick iterations, you either need to wait awhile, or rename the page (index2.html, index3.html, etc) until you find something that works.
I am trying to implement share this method. I am using the code as follows
http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=my_website_url
Now when Facebook is showing it showing some thumbnails at left side. These images are picked from my website. How can I pick a particular image as thumbnail or at least stop it showing thumbnail?
You can check it with my blog address.
From Facebook's spec, use a code like this:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://siim.lepisk.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/siim-blog-fb.png" />
Source: Facebook Share
This blog post seems to have your answer:
http://blog.capstrat.com/articles/facebook-share-thumbnail-image/
Specifically, use a tag like the following:
<link rel="image_src"
type="image/jpeg"
href="http://www.domain.com/path/icon-facebook.gif" />
The name of the image must be the same as in the example.
Click "Making Sure the Preview Works"
Note: Tags can be correct but Facebook only scrapes every 24 hours, according to their documentation. Use the Facebook Lint page to get the image into Facebook.
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/
My tags were correct but Facebook only scrapes every 24 hours, according to their documentation. Using the Facebook Lint page got the image into Facebook.
Enter your URL here and FB will update the metadata from your page:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug (updated link)
Facebook uses og:tags and the Open Graph Protocol to decipher what information to display when previewing your URL in a share dialog
or in a news feed on facebook.
The og:tags contain information such as :
The title of the page
The type of page
The URL
The websites name
A description of the page
Facebook user_id's of administrators of the page ( on facebook )
Here is an example ( taken from the facebook documentation ) of some og:tags
<meta property="og:title" content="The Rock"/>
<meta property="og:type" content="movie"/>
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/rock.jpg"/>
Once you have implemented the correct markup of the og:tags and set their values, you can test how facebook will view your URL by using the Facebook Debugger. The debugger tool will also highlight any problems it finds with the og:tags on the page or lack there-of.
One thing to keep in mind is that facebook does do some caching with regard to this information, so in order for changes to take effect your page will have t be scraped as stated in the documentation :
Editing Meta Tags
You can update the attributes of your page by updating your page's
tags. Note that og:title and og:type are only editable
initially - after your page receives 50 likes the title becomes fixed,
and after your page receives 10,000 likes the type becomes fixed.
These properties are fixed to avoid surprising users who have liked
the page already. Changing the title or type tags after these limits
are reached does nothing, your page retains the original title and
type.
For the changes to be reflected on Facebook, you must force your page
to be scraped. The page is scraped when an admin for the page clicks
the Like button or when the URL is entered into the Facebook URL
Linter Facebook Debugger...
I see that all the answers provided are correct. However, one important detail was overlooked: The size of the image MUST be at least 200 X 200 px, otherwise Facebook will substitute the thumbnail with the first available image that meets the criteria on the page. Another fact is that the minimum required is to include the 3 metas that Facebook requires for the og:image to take effect:
<meta property="og:title" content="Title of the page" />
<!-- NEXT LINE Even if page is dynamically generated and URL contains query parameters -->
<meta property="og:url" content="http://yoursite.com" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://convertaholics.com/convertaholics-og.png" />
Debug your page with Facebook debugger and fix all the warnings and it should work like a charm!
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
I was having the same problems and believe I have solved it. I used the link meta tag as mentioned here to point to the image I wanted, but the key is that if you do that FB won't pull any other images as choices. Also if your image is too big, you won't have any choices at all.
Here's how I fixed my site http://gnorml.com/blog/facebook-link-thumbnails/
Here’s how this works all:
You need the ability to access the HTML on the particular webpage you are sharing. It'll probably work site wide too if you use a common header file. I have not tried this, but it should work. You'll just get the same image for all pages if you do this though.
You need to add these HTML meta tags into page in the . It will not work if you put it in the . Make sure to customize per your a) image, b) description, c) URL, and d) title.
A Real Example.
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.coachesneedsocial.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/BannerWCircleImages-1.jpg" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Coaches share their secrets to success so you can rock 2015." />
<meta property="og:url"content="http://www.coachesneedsocial.com/coacheswisdomtelesummit/" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Coaches Wisdom Telesummit" />
Save
Open a fresh Facebook post, and retry the page you wanted to share.
If you are having trouble… you can debug it with this Facebook tool. It looks more geeky than it is. It tells you what Facebook is seeing when you post in the URL to share.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/
Big Tip.. make sure the “quote marks” are the same in your HTML (they should look like 2 straight marks and no curves… sometimes programs change these to different fonts and it goofs up the code.
Sharing on Facebook: How to Improve Your Results by Customizing the Image, Title, and Text
From the link above. For the best possible share, you'll want to suggest 3 pieces of data in your HTML:
Title
Short description
Image
This accomplished by the following, placed inside the 'head' tag of your HTML:
Title: <title>INSERT POST TITLE</title>
Image: <meta property=og:image content="http://site.com/YOUR_IMAGE.jpg"/>
Description: <meta name=description content="INSERT YOUR SUMMARY TEXT"/>
If you website is static HTML, you'll have to do this for every page using your HTML editor.
If you're using a CMS like Drupal, you can automate a lot of it (see above link). If you use wordpress, you can probably implement something similar using the Drupal example as a guideline. I hope you found these useful.
Finally, you can always manually edit your share posts. See this example with illustrations.
I also had an issue on a site I was working on last week. I implemented a like box and tested the like box. Then I went ahead to add an image to my header (the ob:image meta). Still the correct image did not show up on my facebook notification.
I tried everything, and came to the conclusion that every single implementation of a like button is cached. So let's say you clock the Like button on url A, then you specify an image in the header and you test it by clicking the Luke button again on url A. You won't see the image as the page is cached. The image will show up when you click on the Like button on page B.
To reset the cache, you have to use the lint debugger tool that's mentioned above, and validate all the Urls for those that are cached... That's the only thing that worked for me.
The easiest way I found to set Facebook Open Graph to every Joomla article, was to place in com_content/article/default.php override, next code:
$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$path = JURI::root();
$document = JFactory::getDocument();
$document->addCustomTag('<meta property="og:title" content="YOUR SITE TITLE" />');
$document->addCustomTag('<meta property="og:name" content="YOUR SITE NAME" />');
$document->addCustomTag('<meta property="og:description" content="YOUR SITE DESCRIPTION" />');
$document->addCustomTag('<meta property="og:site_name" content="YOUR SITE NAME" />');
if (isset($images->image_fulltext) and !empty($images->image_fulltext)) :
$document->addCustomTag('<meta property="og:image" content="'.$path.'<?php echo htmlspecialchars($images->image_fulltext); ?>" />');
else :
$document->addCustomTag('<meta property="og:image" content="'.$path.'images/logo.png" />');
endif;
This will place meta og tags in the head with details from current article.