I'm trying to post a link to my website on my Facebook, but it won't show a picture. I am using meta content tags, but I originally used a URL with "whitespace" and got this error:
URL 'http://ixxx.photobucket.com/albums/b567/xxxxxxxxxx/Screen Shot 2015-04-29 at 10.15.44 AM_zpsofejd5mn.png' for property 'og:image:url' of the object at 'http://xxxxxxxxx.com/news/2015/4/30/studiomonthly_april' is invalid because it contains whitespace characters.
I have since updated the image URL to a different link, but when I fetch new scrape information it will only show me the old link. I've been doing this for hours! Please help!
Thank you for trying to help me!
It's a temporary bug.
Facebook team is working on a fix:
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/978421888869140/
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http://gates.cc/works/thisisyours/site/p/fairytale-fashion-collection-61 this is my website url. Here you can see the facebook share using addthis on right side. Please help me what problem in this page. In facebook share box have link only not showing the title, description and the images.
Method 1 :
Facebook treats each url as unique and caches the page based on that url, so if you want to share the latest url the simplest solution is to add a query string with the url being shared. In simple words just add ?v=1 at the end of the url. Any number can be used in place of 1.
Method 2:
Facebook has a tool called Debugger (formerly known as URL Linter). This tool gives us an idea about how a url will be shared on Facebook, what content, which image will be fetched.
I hope this helps
I have read this earlier question:
META Description and Facebook
and applied the directions stated therein because our problems are similar.
The message returned by the debugger is included in the png file attached herein:
I cannot upload images yet, so I am providing a link:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4Z774E5dZ-9RU1zX1A3RGdHRWc
how do i resolve the problem
thanks
I'm creating a web app which uses Facebook feed dialog plugin in some pages. When I try to share these pages, the URLs posted to the news feed get truncated.
I'm using the direct URL approach. When the user wanna share something, she clicks in a link that is going to redirect her to the feed dialog. The link is composed as shown below:
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=MY_APP_ID&link=SHARED_URL&redirect_uri=REDIRECT_URL
For example:
the URL I have in the "link":http://www.simplecity.com.br/DP/Index/?CID=0&UID=1
the URL I get in the news feed:http://www.simplecity.com.br/DP/Index/?CID=0
Has anyone already experienced this issue? Any suggestion?
The usual cause of this is forgetting to encode the link when you pass it into the Direct FB URL.
Are you forgetting to urlencode the link parameter (i'm especially thinking of the &) when creating the URL you're passing the user to?
I recently encountered the same problem with a straightforward link - I inserted:
https://example.com/page.html
into a page post. However, on the page it was rendered as:
https://example.com/page.ht...
as if the last two characters of the html extension were merely not displayed, as indicated by the elipsis. However, if you copy the link from the post you find that those chars are actually missing and the link resolves as 404. If you edit the post and reinsert the link, it is saved correctly, although the 'overflow' characters are still hidden by the elipsis. Very misleading.
What seems to work best is if you use the Facebook Developer OG tags in the page and then use Open Graph Debugger to scrape the link. This puts the URL in the FB realm and it picks up the correct link just fine. As you are doing this, the debugger tool gives you feedback to the effect: "This is the first time we have seen this URL"; which is baloney if you have put the URL on a FB page beforehand.
I have filed a bug report with Facebook; but I am not expecting them to own up to this bug.
I have created my website using wordpress 3.4.1 and, I tried sharing my webpage in facebook. I do not get any thumbnail or the basic blog description in the facebook post. Instead I get "No Title". I know this question has been asked a number of times in wordpress forums. But, most of them are leading to dead ends. Can some one help me in this regard.
PS: I tried using the facebook debugger (http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug) I get the following
Error Parsing URL: Error parsing input URL, no data was scraped.
You need to add OpenGraph tags to your page, or even easier, finf a WordPress plugin to do it for you. Run the page through the debugger again and the issues should be fixed.
Just like what Niraj said you need to make sure you have the open graph meta tags on your blog. Here is a plugin which will add them http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-open-graph-meta/.
So I have a blog: www.elnacional.com.uy
Each article has it's open graph meta tags, so when someone Likes the article, a title, picture and description are posted on facebook.
But suddenly it started working wrongly, now when u like the page u just get the Link to be posted on facebook, not the description nor the title nor the picture.
And I have no idea what's going on because nothing was changed.
Please use the debugger to troubleshoot your problems.
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elnacional.com.uy%2Fjugadores%2Fperalta-hablo-de-lo-que-se-viene-en-el-apertura%2F
This shows the following error:
Object at URL 'http://www.elnacional.com.uy/jugadores/peralta-hablo-de-lo-que-se-viene-en-el-apertura/' is invalid because the configured 'og:type' of 'news' is invalid.
The "news" type for "og:type" isn't a valid type according to the documentation here.
This is why it doesn't know what to do with your title, image and description.
I suggest using the type article as it is documented as
article - Use article for any URL that represents transient content -
such as a news article, blog post, photo, video, etc.
The meta tags should be in the head, maybe that's why it isn't working :)