My app uploads a picture to the user's album through graph API (/me/photos) and then grabs that picture, makes it user profile picture by sending the user to
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=[PID]&makeprofile=1
It worked well, the user would be presented with the page that he could crop and save right away. However, just 2 days ago, the page was changed. The user will, instead, be presented with the picture in theatre mode (popup on black screen) and has to click a non-obvious link "Make Profile Picture" to crop and save.
The question is, it is the url that was just changed, or it is a new policy of Facebook. If it is a policy, I would like to have the link that this matter was announced
See the picture here, https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0vWR6nY09_wRzhwU3VadG81TGM. It used to be like on the left but now it is the one on the right
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While going through my friends posts in Facebook Application I have observed that some images with a question like "which characters suits to you in 'some movie name' movie". whenever I click on that image it is redirecting me to their website(Ex:- Brochill) and asking me to login with Facebook credentials.
Once I do login successfully It is redirecting to a page where it is going to show me an image with a character name and image of the selected movie. whenever I click on post on my Facebook wall it is automatically redirecting to my Facebook application and posting that image automatically.
I wanted to know how exactly the internal functionality is working.
My Observations:-
For the website which we are redirecting we need to login first.
without login it will not work.
It will create a same image whenever I tried to click on the image in the Facebook App It is giving me the old generated image. I think they are maintaining the user details with generated images.
Any Ideas?
Hi I created a page on Facebook, and used Facebook Graph API to post photos to the page.
The post address is like:
https://graph.facebook.com/2104798556250663/photos
And Post parameters are:
message=url_encoded_message
access_token=your-access-token
url=image_url
privacy={"description":"public", "value":"EVERYONE"}
The post request was successful, as I was able to see posted photos in the "Timeline Photos" album and can see them in my timeline. If I click a photo and then click "Edit" I can see the setting is "Public".
However, when viewing without logging into Facebook, or as another account, none of the API posted photos are seen. If I went to "Timeline Photos", I can only see some wording like "25 Photos · Updated 13 minutes ago".
To further test it, I manually uploaded a photo, and the photo also went to "Timeline Photos". This time I could see the manually uploaded photo, even without logging into Facebook.
I have checked the privacy setting by clicking the triangle on upper right corner on my page, then click "Settings", then click "Privacy" on the left column, set "Public" for the "Who can see your future posts?". And uploaded new photos via API after that. Still doesn't change the situation.
To sum up, API posted photos are invisible although the setting is "Public", while a manually uploaded photo is visible.
Thank you for your time.
Sounds like your app is still in development mode - so all content created through it, will only be visible to people with a role in the app.
You need to set your app “live”, for this photo to become visible to everyone.
I don't have 10 reputation points yet, so can't embed image, sorry. Please see the image that can help clarify, right away, what's wrong: http://i.stack.imgur.com/b6BbO.png
I am having issues integrating Facebook buttons on my site. I have created a FB app to use with the integration - my like button (see http://soundsviral.com/2014/02/13/tennis-court-by-lorde-45/) is working just like I want it to. However, the share button next to it returns a story like you see above. The real disconcerting piece is that the link for the "Sounds Viral" name (which is the name of the app here, not the site) links to the app itself, which I don't want users to visit at all.) How can I change this URL to be my homepage (or the link in the post below, if that's preferable?)
I also which I could change "link" here to be "song", which is a supported og:type and is in use for my "like" button. However, for the "share" button, it just says "link". But that's less important to me than the actual URL in the story.
Thanks for any ideas!
The solution is to set your facebook app to be a website app that directs facebook users to your website.
To do this:
go to you app page
go to Settings
click Add Platform button
Select Website option
Enter URL of your website and save
I'm designing a photo-oriented Facebook app that would let users tell stories in the app-specific way and advertise such stories by posting a single, preferably large, "cover" photo. Photo posting is done by the app and people that would like to see the story need an easy and obvious way of being redirected to the corresponding app-generated page. So hence is the question.
Is it possible for a Facebook app to post a maximally large (column-wide) photo on the user's behalf, so that when others (non-users included) click on the photo, it takes them to a specific page that is related to the app instead of zooming into the photo by default? If not, what would be the best workaround?
To get the maximum large photo on news feed, you should look into user generated photos, which requires two additional parameters you add to your open graph action to indicate that the user-generated photo should have maximum photo display on news feed and ticker.
Example OG POST:
https://graph.facebook.com/me/nyccookbook:cook?
recipe=http://www.yourdomain.com/pizza.html&
image[0][url]=http://www.yourdomain.com/images/my_camera_pizza_pic.jpg&
image[0][user_generated]=true&
access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
If the photo is not user-generated, then explicit sharing is an alternative to get maximum display size on news feed and ticker provided that you follow all the requirements and guidelines for explicit sharing.
when others (non-users included) click on the photo, it takes them to a specific page that is related to the app instead of zooming into the photo by default
This is not possible because FB users expect the behavior to zoom the photo in when clicking on it. If clicking on a photo launches an URL, it is a bad user experience because that is not what anyone expects when clicking on a photo on FB.
The best workaround I can think of is to edit the description of the image with a link to your specific page on your app, such that when a FB user sees the picture, they can click the link in the description to go where you want.
I don't see the answer I'm looking for, so hopefully someone can help.
I have a PHP script, which displays data from an SQL database. The dynamic elements are pulled in, essentially showing details of a job listing. On this page, I have a Facebook share URL.
Example:
<a title="Post on Facebook"
href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.mywebsite.com/joblisting/details.php?job_id=1345488636.3750">
POST ON FACEBOOK
</a>
When the user clicks that link, they get the Facebook page to post this to their Facebook page. The page they are on pre-populates with my page title, page description, etc.
And if I have an image on my page, that becomes the default thumbnail image for the FB post. I also set a defualt Facebook image in my metatag, and that works too. I also added up to 10 other images on my page, so that the user could choose from 1 of 10 images as the default thumbnail. But...
I wanted to be able to let the user choose a thumbnail image from their desktop. Is this possible?
The image that's used in the Share dialog needs to exist somewhere on the web before the dialog is invoked, so you'd need to allow the user to upload it somewhere before popping the dialog in order to do what you're suggesting.