I am trying to add Facebook like/share to http://labs.jstor.org/shakespeare/macbeth. I’ve tried several different ways of adding it, including the HTML5 and XFBML options from developers.facebook.com and from AddThis.
I made sure to include the og: title, type, url, and image meta tags as shown:
The open graph debugger tool at developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ returns a 404. I checked in Firebug to make sure there wasn't a 404 header coming across. When clicked, the like/share buttons show the page as "Page Not Found"
What is going on here?
Check your server code and make sure you're returning the correct meta tags to Facebook - if you have special user agent handling, you might be returning the correct tags to regular browsers but the wrong tags to Facebook, which can make debugging more difficult
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I've successfully added a Share button to my website using the following code:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/share-button
It produces a popup with a link to the og:url along with the title of the linked page and a picture from it, which I can then post, and it shows up on my Facebook.
I am having 3 issues with this:
I've update the og:url and data-href after page load, using jquery, but the new values get ignored when I Share.
the og:title, og:description, and og:image don't appear to be used at all.
Sometimes I'd like to Share some custom text (and images if possible) without any url.
I'm aware that Facebook provide other tools/APIs that provide more versatility but it seems that would mean my site would have to go through a review process, and I'd have to code for security. This is not an option and I want to stick to the popup method.
Hope someone can help. Many thanks.
If the tags do not change when posting, refresh (and test) the tags in the debugger: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/
Dynamically created Open Graph tags (with JavaScript) will be ignored, the tags have to be in the original page source.
I'm trying to implement the 'Like' Facebook button on my webpage. I've followed the instructions on FB Like Button Reference, and the main functionalities seem to be working Ok.
However, there are a couple of things that I couldn't make them work: the og:title and og:description meta tags. It looks like they are simply ignored when I post to Facebook.
This is the list of key information that may be helpful:
My Facebook web page: www.facebook.com/zuzsso, and I've configured it as follows:
My webpage is www.zuzsso.com
The header source code of my webpage looks like this, where I've set the tags og:title and og:description
The FB scraper shows this information when debugging the URL http://www.zuzsso.com:
Also, this is how the scraper sees my page:
However
When I log in Facebook as someone else and go to my webpage and like it, this is what I see:
Given all this info, shall I assume that I misunderstood how the Like button works or is it there definitely a problem with FB or my own configurations?
Thanks a lot for your time hand help.
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I need some information, why like box frame not working: 'Could not retrieve the specified page. Please verify correct href was passed in.'. I`m testing this href in http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug - it says correct answer, but frame not working.
In access logs for UA facebookexternalhit/1.1 always answer status 200 (and 301/302 for specific page).
example page: http://www.now.ru/item/series/comedy/Univer_222394
additional information: on some pages frame works, and some does not work
thanks.
The Facebook Like Box is really designed to use the URL for a Facebook page, not for a general Web Page. It pulls Timeline content from a fan page within Facebook.
It can be used for a Web Page if the page has defined Open Graph Meta Tags and has been Liked at least once. However, there will be no "stream" functionality. The Like-Box for a Web Page would just have functionality similar to the Facepile plugin (except that Facepile just shows you friends, and a Like-Box also shows non-friends.)
Typically, though, you would want to supply the Like-Box with a Facebook Page URL in the following format:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Facebook-Page-Name/Facebook-Page-ID
Perhaps you are intending to use a Like Button or Facepile Social Plugin instead? Either of those can accept any URL as input.
I´ve inserted a FACEBOOK like button succesfully, except that the meta tag 'og:site_name' is not working...:
On my facebook page, it shows the name of the main domain (http://www.domain.com) and not the content of the meta tag 'og:site_name' (FAN CLUB)
I've research everything there is to research without success... Something so simple(?) Am i missing something?
Thanks!
Feeding your URL through the Facebook Debugger should clear Facebook's caching of your URL and refresh any changes you have made. Try passing your URL to the debugger and it should be refreshed to the correct value.
The debugger will also direct you to any other problems you may have with regard to integrating your URL into the Open Graph Protocol...
I have a Facebook Application with an iframe based canvas that contains a like button (also iframe), in the head of my iframe i've specified the standard meta tags (og:title, og:url, og:site_name) and they seem to work fine (the information is displayed correctly in the profile wall) except for the title.
I've tested various links of the app with the Facebook URL Linter and the ug:title tag is ignored completly.
Have any of you had any trouble with the open graph tags inside facebook applications?
Any ideeas are apreciated, thanks.
I've tried every possible combination and suggestion in adding og meta tags to my page, but none of them worked. When testing URL with facebook URL Linter it always returned default values defined on application admin page. Like it doesn't see og meta tags. And what was more interesting is that when I look the page source, og meta tags existed but haven't been evaluated by facebook or linter.
Now, in my canvas page I defined login/authentication (and depending redirection etc) at the top, before html and og meta tags definition, and that was the main problem.
If you perform FB login redirection/authentication before providing og meta tags,
then FB crawlers/linter will not be able to detect your meta info and will try to auto-fill it.
I'm having the same problem in my app http://apps.facebook.com/tripline It seems that Facebook doesn't process links to pages inside apps the same way as pages they hit directly.
You can see the difference in the URL Linter:
The og:url on the canvas page: http://apps.facebook.com/tripline/trip.php?id=2015071615051003BEE6FBED6F531103 (og:title is ignored, get trip.php instead)
The url to the actual page loaded in the iframe: http://www.tripline.net/api/fbcanvas/trip.php?id=2015071615051003BEE6FBED6F531103#frame-top (og:title correct, but can't link to this because it's not in the frame)
The page on the main site: http://www.tripline.net/trip/The_Boston_Freedom_Trail-2015071615051003BEE6FBED6F531103 (og:title correct, if i can't figure things out, i'm just going to set the og:url on the canvas page to this)
Not really an answer, but at least you know you're not alone or crazy...which is worth something.