is it possible to format the description text so that I can display an unordered list?
ul-tag seems not to work.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/feed-dialog/v2.3
Afaik it´s not possible at all to format the feed message in any way, or to include HTML tags.
You can try action links as described in this thread, but i am not sure if they still work with the feed dialog: action links text in facebook post to wall dialog using javascript not working
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I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to embed the facebook feed dialog on a page rather than have it popup overlayed on the page.
I've followed the instructions here and get it to popup, but dont' know if it's even possible to have it embedded on the page. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/feed/
Thoughts?
Check out display parameter in Common Dialog Parameters.
According to that you can show a dialog as a page,iframe,popup.
Using an iframe could be useful in your case, for which you will need a valid access_token.
Hope this helps
Yes, I just wrote up how to do this along with a workaround for specifying the recipient here: Letting user specify recipients within Feed Dialog
No, you cannot embed it to the page.
basically it is either popup or lightbox.
see the link provided by Dhiraj Bodicherla
I am using the restfb Java api (from Scala) to post to Facebook. I have two questions.
i) If you put a link in the message field of a post, it will automatically be rendered as a link. But what if you want to include link text instead of the href in the post message? Including Dude gets rendered as a string. But clearly there are many examples of things like "Hey, check out this car , where car is a link. How do you do this?
ii) Facebook is including the description of my company in each post. I set the description field to the empty String and its still showing up. I even removed the description from the settings page for my Facebook app and its still showing up. Any ideas?
Thanks.
Instead of putting the link in the message parameter, you can put it in the link parameter of your HTTP POST to the Graph API. Otherwise, it cannot be done with an inline link that has text (like what you can do with normal href's).
I don't know of a way to remove a description meta tag once it's been set. Try just a period instead of an empty string to see if that works.
My blog is here. I had a few issues with the like button, most of which have been fixed, except now I have a problem with the Facebook like button not displaying thumbnails whenever the post is liked. It only displays the name of post ex.:
Filip Stojchevski likes a link.
Flypaper (2011) | Филмотека
[NO THUMBNAIL]
How can I fix this?
Facebook needs Open Graph meta data on your site. So you need to edit your template to include the data for Facebook. Unfortunately the Dynamic Views theme does not allow HTML edits.
My site has a feed system and when user clicks on any one of those feed snippets (the object), I want the action to be publish in their Facebook news feed. So I'm really confused on how to go about it because as far as I'm aware this is how you post actions on Facebook's JavaScript SDK:
FB.api('/me/namespace:action?object=url','post')
How do you dynamically change the properties of the object? Are there parameters you can send? As far as I'm concerned, Facebook asks you to give pass a URL and it'll grab the <meta> information from that URL?
Am I supposed to perform a GET request with my own server and change the meta tags dynamically. This sounds like more work than it needs to be. For example, what if the feed includes a paragraph of text, it'll be impractical for me to post that as a get request and then urldecode the entire thing.
I'm not sure I totally understand your question, but...
You can dynamically change the tags for facebook og: properties, but you have to do it before the page loads (e.g. using PHP as opposed to javascript). After you send the post using the javascript SDK, facebook crawls the page and looks for the info in the og: meta tags.
I need to make a post to my facebook wall from my windows application. The post must have multiple links embeded within the post content. I can do it using Grap API but the problem is that I cannot specify an anchor text for links. The links themselves are very long so it's absolutly necessary for us to have an anchor text. But it seems facebook does not understand anchor text tags.
I know there is a "link" object but it's not an option because it allows only one "link" object per post.
Is there any way to post multiple links with an anchor text within a single post via Graph API?
Thank you
In short, no.
You can use a Link object, in which case you can supply a Message, Title, Description and Caption, but you can't actually hide the link, or display different text on your link - Facebook will always control how your hyperlinks work.
Other messages and Posts are plain text, so you can't use HTML formatting elements either.
It's all done to reduce the potentially hideous display of messages posted to Facebook, and to protect users from disingenuous link texts.
You can use Facebook Notes feature instead. Facebook Notes fully support HTML.
See this. How spotify have done this if formatting html elements are not allowed.
Facebook notes really support HTML. So yo can post links like this:
03131991saty