multiple href parameters in facebook notification - facebook

i am trying to send an app-to-user Facebook notification with multiple href params.
the way im doing it now the link would look something like this:
https://graph.facebook.com/user-id/notifications?access_token=access|token&template=test_msg&href=?campaign=1
this sends the notification to the user just fine and when clicking the notification it takes the user to this link:
https://apps.facebook.com/mygame/?campaign=1&fb_source=notification&ref=notif&notif_t=app_notification
which also works as expected, the problem is that i want to add more parameters to this link, as in: campaign=1&tracking=2&someshit=3
i couldn't figure this out from the docs, i dunno if there is a limitation on href to only 1 param, it doesn't say so in the docs, but there is no example on how to send more than 1 param. i already tried to add more hrefs in the url but it doesn't work and only takes the last one.
iv'e seen other Facebook apps that do that like Slotomania, so i know there's a way.

Ok so obviously it was much simpler than thought. it's possible to chain multiple parameters using %26 instead of & like this:
https://graph.facebook.com/user-id/notifications?access_token=access|token&template=test_msg&href=?campaign=1%26foo=bar%26someshit=3
hope this will help someone.

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Get share/like count for different url/bogposts/articles

I am looking for a method to get share/like count for each of the blogposts/articles which I create on my website. Interested in Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter but Facebook is the most important right now.
Lets take this website as an example: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/
I have found a method to find this out for each url, but that will make it a lot harder for me as I would need to do it manually for each URL.
This is the query I used to get data for a specific URL:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.7/?id=https://googleblog.blogspot.no/
Is there any method to get data for each and every url which contains: "company name" or something like this?
Will appriciate all the help I can get here.
No, there is no “wildcard” for Open Graph object URLs.
You can however request data for multiple URLs in one go, using the ?ids=foo,bar syntax – https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/#multiidlookup
This theoretically works for up to 50 ids in one request (although with the ids being URLs in this case, you might only be able to request less, due to URL length limitations.)

Dailymotion callback url dynamic configuration

I hope I am not duplicating a question. I am banging my head against a wall for several days now. I am adding the Dailymotion PHP SDK to our site, I am using the Dailymotion::GRANT_TYPE_AUTHORIZATION, I am able to authenticate using a static call back url in my API on Dailymotion.
I want to be able to use this from several different scripts on the site. The first will be to call a link up page, so we can capture that a person has linked to Dailymotion. The second will be to upload video's through our system to Dailymotion, to that users account, not mine. I know I could do this with the authentication type of password, but I want to use the API and not have to have the visitor sign in or enter their credentials every time.
Back to the question, I see that the API can have a dynamic url, but I can not figure out how to make this work. If I someone could send me an example of how to enter this in the API section I would appreciate it. This does not work:
http://example.com/dailymotion/[dailymotion_checklogin.php]
nor does something like this:
http://example.com/callback/[dailymotion_upload.php][dailymotion_checklogin.php]
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks
Mrpepik
Replace the [dynamic] part with your dynamic part.
If your redirect URI on your API key is http://example.com/dailymotion/[dynamic], then your real redirect URI could be http://example.com/dailymotion/dailymotion_checklogin.php

Send the user to a page along with a error message

I want to set up a login page in which from anywhere on the site I can send a user to it and it will display a custom message along with it. I could use a redirect and a msg query param but is this the best way to do it?
I'm working with node.js but I'm interested in a universal solution.
If you are going for easy, you can just have GET data in the URL. But, that doesn't look that nice, if you want a rather long message, plus, GET has size restrictions, where POST (virtually) hasn't.
For using post data you could use the solution of this: JavaScript post request like a form submit question, but that gives a rather messy source code (if you want a somewhat longer text).
You could keep them in a database, and only send the ID of the message to a PHP page, and get it from the database (that's what I would do, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea, just amateur here!)
You can use jQuery or simply plain javascript to extract your message from the url; the relevant question that listed links to detailed code: jquery get querystring from URL.
Then depending on how you want it displayed, apply the extracted string to your situation.

Tab links using only the page and app_id has stopped working, is there an alternative beyond querying Facebook each time?

A few days ago these type of links worked: http://www.facebook.com/pages/132456789?sk=app_132465798465 but now they give 404's.
The alternative is link to the namespace of the page like so: http://www.facebook.com/pages/foo/1456798324564?sk=app_134654689794 however to find out the link I'd need to ask Facebook for it, and it seem like since the namespace can change I can't just ask for it once.
Is there another way to use page and app id's to link to tabs without needing the roundtrip to Facebook?
I don't think that first format was ever used on Facebook, i'm surprised it worked.
As far as I can tell the 'name' part of a page URL is arbitrary, so just filling in something there will work, e.g.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tea/194040780316?sk=info
will also work as
http://www.facebook.com/pages/some_random_text/194040780316?sk=info

How does facebook's Share a link feature work?

I'm trying to implement a feature like that where a user inputs a url and when displaying that url I want to have a custom display (an embed object if it's a video from youtube, a thumbnail if it's an image link, title and excerpt of body if it's a normal link).
How can such a feature be realized?
There is a new idea called oEmbed that a few sites support (Flickr, Vimeo and a few others) that addresses this problem. oEmbed site
Otherwise, just check the site against a list of ones you pick and then pull out the relevant bits to construct an embed link.
I liked the idea of oEmbed a lot but unfortunately it doesn't has that much adoption yet.
oohEmbed tries to solve this issue by building oEmbed for many websites.
For the feature to work, it needs the server's interaction where I believe the following scenario is how it works
Assume that we have the site humanzz.com and that it provides such feature
A user enters a url on the humanzz.com's webpage and presses a button like facebooks' preview button
An AJAX call is made to a dedicated page on humanzz.com
humanzz.com does calls the remote website and gets its data
The AJAX call now returns the page's data (oEmbed JSON object)
This involves so much server's overhead.
I really wanted to do it using JavaScript as the server's role was only to bypass "Same Origin Policy"'s restrictions.
oohEmbed allows bypassing the server's step by specifying a callback parameter to oohEmbed so that the JSON object returned is passed to a callback function on your page.
An example illustrating this is as follows
Add a script tag dynamically to your page
< script type="text/javascript" src="http://oohembed.com/oohembed/?url=http%3A//www.amazon.com/Myths-Innovation-Scott-Berkun/dp/0596527055/&callback=myCallBack">< /script>
This would result in executing myCallback(oEmbedJSONObject) which is great.
The problem with that solution is you still have to have a fallback for websites that don't have oEmbed representations.
For the embedded things, I have been using auto_html ( https://github.com/dejan/auto_html) with great success (vimeo, youtube, images) and even added soundcloud myself. But I am still looking for a "thumbnail" generation with an image and text facebook-like.
I guess you have to construct it by yourself by manually parsing the kind of URL you get.
If it is an image url, well then you just have to rescale it and in case the user clicks on it, then handle that by opening the original one somehow.
If it is a link to some youtube video, then you have to take a look at how the embedding of Youtube videos works. You can just copy the code that is provided by Youtube itself, and then exchange the parts with the URL to the video with the URL you got from your user.
I did never implement something like that, but I assume it should work somehow like this.