Share URL on Facebook from different domain than App - facebook

I'm trying to allow my client's website to share a URL on Facebook that differs from the website's. For example: http://www.example.com has a share link on it for http://www.instagram.com
Whenever I try, I get the following error:
Given URL is not permitted by the Application configuration: One or
more of the given URLs is not permitted by the App's settings. It must
match the Website URL or Canvas URL, or the domain must be a subdomain
of one of the App's domains.
I can't see how I can change my App's settings to allow a different URL to be shared, although I'm guessing it must be possible.
Here's a snippet of my code, to see if that helps:
// Facebook Share
$('#facebook-share').on('click', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
var url = $(this).attr('data-href');
FB.ui({
method: 'share',
href: url
}, function(response){
if (response) {
console.log('Facebook post published.');
} else {
console.log('Facebook post was not published.');
}
});
});

Further research seems to indicate that Facebook Apps can only be used with one URL, no matter what. I changed things to use sharer.php instead:
// Facebook Share
$('.facebook-share').on('click', function(e){
e.preventDefault();
var url = encodeURIComponent($(this).attr('data-href'));
var shareURL = "https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?app_id=XXXXXXXX&sdk=joey&u="+url+"%2F&display=popup&ref=plugin&src=share_button";
var width = 655;
var height = 250;
var left = (screen.width/2)-(width/2);
var top = (screen.height/2)-(height/2);
window.open(shareURL, 'facebookShare', 'scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width='+width+',height='+height+',left='+left+',top='+top);
});

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Unexpected behavior for Facebook Sharing [duplicate]

This question already has an answer here:
Facebook ignoring OG image on first share
(1 answer)
Closed 6 years ago.
First of all hi and thanks in advance to anyone who can help with this because I've been going crazy over this for weeks now.
So I've got a website which lists gif taken from my mobile application (which are then stored on AWS and my visitors ( I haven't found a use for me to have users) can share these gifs on facebook using the facebook sdk.
The problem appears when I try sharing an image for the first time
This is what the share dialog shows the first time I click on my sharing button:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/lNVNF.png
and then I close and reclick the same button and now it works:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/YsDUm.png
Now I've been trying to find a way to make this work on the first sharing attempt but to no avail.
I am using meteor in combination with biasport:facebook-sdk and Amazon S3 for the hosting of my files.
Edit here is the code used:
FRONT SIDE
HTML
<div class="facebook share">
<img src="/gallery/fb.png">
</div>
Javascript
Template.*templateName*.events({
'click .facebook': function(e){
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
// this is in a modal so I store the data I need
// (events have photos which in turn contain a url to the gif
var url = Session.get('event').photos[Session.get("id")].url;
FB.ui({
method: 'share',
href: url
});
}
SERVER SIDE
JAVASCRIPT
if(Meteor.isClient) {
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
FB.init({
appId : 'APP_ID',
status : true,
xfbml : true,
version : 'v2.5'
});
};
}
Edit: I found a manual solution using exec future and curl
so first I added a call to a meteor method on the share that updates the facebook crawler
JAVASCRIPT
Template.*templateName*.events({
'click .facebook': function(e){
e.preventDefault();
e.stopPropagation();
// this is in a modal so I store the data I need
// (events have photos which in turn contain a url to the gif
var url = Session.get('event').photos[Session.get("id")].url;
Meteor.call('updateCrawler', url, function(){
FB.ui({
method: 'share',
href: url
});
});
}
Then I defined my meteor method as such
JAVASCRIPT
Meteor.methods({
updateCrawler: function(url){
var future = new Future();
cmd = 'curl -X POST -F "id=' + url + '" -F "scrape=true" -F "access_token={my_access_token}" "https://graph.facebook.com"';
exec(cmd, function(error){
if (error){
console.log(error);
}
future.return();
});
future.wait();
}
});
it's ugly but since I'd have to wait for the crawler to update and it works I'll leave this here for future use for someone maybe
Edit2:
I did not use og tags at all since I was simply sharing a url to aws directly and not a url to my website
I worked around this problem by calling the Facebook API direct from the server to make it scrape the og data by requesting info on the page. First time round it doesn't have the image cached but second time it does so this workaround does the initial call before sharing.
Use an access token for your facebook app and call the below in an ajax call and await the response before opening share dialog. Replace Google address with your own uri encoded address https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/?id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.uk&access_token=xxxxx
EDIT:
As per comments, here is my server side method for calling this which I use when posts etc are inserted to make the initial call and prompt a scrape from fb:
var getTheOGInfo = function (link)
{
if (!link || link.slice(0, 4).toLowerCase() != "http"){
throw new Meteor.Error("og-info-bad-url", "Function requires an unencoded fully qualified url");
return false;
}
var url = "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/{{{{id}}}}?access_token={{{{token}}}}&fields=og_object{id,description,title,type,updated_time,url,image},id,share";
var token = Meteor.settings.private.fb.token;
if (!token){
throw new Meteor.Error("og-info-no-token", "Function requires a facebook token in Meteor.settings.private.fb.token");
return false;
}
var link_id = encodeURIComponent(link);
url = url.replace('{{{{token}}}}', token).replace('{{{{id}}}}', link_id);
var result = HTTP.get(url, {timeout:1000});
return result;
}
Or for your purposes you may not want anything that might be blocking so you could change the last two lines to be aynchronous:
var result = HTTP.get(url, {timeout:1000});
return result;
//Replace with non blocking
HTTP.get(url, {timeout:1000}, function(err, result){console.log('something asynchronous', err, result);});
return true;

Canvas -> Base64 post to Facebook

I have implemented a pure javascript function for sharing canvas content to an user's facebook wall. The implementation works, but the problem is:
Facebook does not approve the app, stating after review:
"publish_actions on Web - Your app's users must enter all content
in the user message field. Don't auto-populate the message field with
any content, including links and hashtags, even if you allow users to
edit the content before sharing. Watch this informational video for
more information, and see Platform Policy 2.3"
Afaik, there is no way to pass a base64 object through the FB.ui feed share dialogue with client side javascript only.
Question: Any workarounds or other ways go get a client side only canvas -> facebook share implementation that is passed by the Facebook app approval process?
The current implementation is as follows:
document.getElementById('facebook-link').onclick=function(){
FB.login(function (response) {
if (response.authResponse) {
window.authToken = response.authResponse.accessToken;
PostImageToFacebook(window.authToken);
} else {
}
}, {
scope: 'publish_actions'
});
};
function PostImageToFacebook(authToken) {
var imageData = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
try {
blob = dataURItoBlob(imageData);
}
catch (e)
{
console.log(e);
}
var fd = new FormData();
fd.append("access_token", authToken);
fd.append("source", blob);
try {
$.ajax({
url: "https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos?access_token=" + authToken,
type: "POST",
data: fd,
processData: false,
contentType: false,
cache: false,
success: function (data) {
console.log("success " + data);
},
error: function (shr, status, data) {
alert.log("error " + data + " Status " + shr.status);
},
complete: function () {
console.log("Posted to facebook");
$('#facebook-link').text('Ferdig delt :)').removeClass( "inProgress" );
}
});
} catch (e) {
console.log(e);
}
}
The implementation does not append any text, making me wonder why it does not comply with the Facebook Platform Policy section 2.3.
I had the same problem in an application. Although we have chosen to use the database, I believe it has a solution to your problem.
Really has no way to share a Base64 code by FB.Ui
But as the policies of Facebook, you are not required to use it.
You can create a custom dialog window for the user to view the image that is being posted and enter/confirm the message, and posting after this action.
As the explanatory video from Facebook, the message posted by the user can not be changed, then it should be approved without problems.

How can i redirect all http to https facebook pages?

I want to force all parent windows of my application from this url:
http://apps.facebook.com/app_name/
to this:
https://apps.facebook.com/app_name/
(http to https)
How can i do this?
Thanks!
You can use something like this (be warned that this will leave your application without signed_request):
if (document.location.protocol=='http:'){
document.location.protocol = 'https:';
}
If you do want the parent frame (Facebook itself) to be switched to HTTPS as well than you'll need to know the URL of your page within application:
if (document.location.protocol=='http:'){
window.top.location = 'https://YOUR_APPLICATION_PAGE_URL'
}
You probably know the URL pattern for your application and do know the Canvas URL of it, so something like this may fit:
if (document.location.protocol=='http:'){
var applicationUrl = 'https://facebook.com/example-application';
var canvasURL = 'http://example.com/facebook-canvas';
var currentAppPageUrl = (document.location+'').replace(canvasURL, applicationUrl);
window.top.location = currentAppPageUrl;
}
Canvas app is at your domain and top is at Facebook domain, so calling window.top.location inside Facebook Canvas app causes cross domain URL access from iframe.
All you need is to catch the exception via try catch block.
if (document.location.protocol=='http:'){
var applicationUrl = 'https://facebook.com/example-application';
var canvasURL = location.protocol+'//'+location.host+location.pathname;
var currentAppPageUrl = (document.location+'').replace(canvasURL, applicationUrl);
try {
window.top.location = currentAppPageUrl;
} catch (e) {
}
}

check if user share on facebook application

is it possible in an iframe applications check if the user share something successfully. may i get the request id if it is successfully shared so if it is shared i want to make the share button's visible false to that user and the user earns some points if the share is successfull
so is it possible to know and check it?
i am using c# but it is ok for javascript code
thanks
using the Javascript SDK you should be able to get that information.
FB.ui({
method: 'apprequests',
message: 'Your message here',
title: 'App Request',
},
function (response) {
if (response) {
var numberSelected = response.to.length;
var firstIdSelected = response.to[0];
} else {
alert('canceled');
}
});

Facebook Request 2.0

I am kind of confused on how to use the new facebook request dialog box. Using the below mentioned function opens a box and I am able to send the request to the user who receives it. But when the user clicks on the request nothing happens instead the user is redirected to an internal link:
http://www.facebook.com/?request_ids=105890902828361%2C105893002828151%2C105899456160839%2C105902046160580%2C105904092827042&notif_t=app_request
How to resolve the issue? (Canvas Page not defined in Settings but Canvas Url is)
function requestsDialog()
{
FB.ui({
method: 'apprequests',
message: 'Here is a new Requests dialog...',
title: 'example',
data: 'trackinginfo'
},
function(response) {
if (response) {
alert('Request was sent.');
} else {
alert('Request was not sent.');
}
}
);
};
You need to specify a Canvas Page. For example, if your canvas page is:
http://apps.facebook.com/test_application
Then the URL that user will go to when clicking on the request will be:
http://apps.facebook.com/test_application?request_ids=12020393994,129193929392
At which point you can use the Graph API to look up what the requests are using the id (documentation here)