I read through facebook's documentation and I've seen some examples on the webs, but I can't fully understand the process involved in posting content on the users timeline.
I want to connect the account of my users (users of a web application, which allows to manage and visualize some media content on a custom flash player) to Facebook, and whenever they want, let them share into their own timelines a "story" about the project they've just created.
In particular, I want to show on their timelines the flash player, and other HTML+CSS+JS content and/or interactions.
Something like "user has created a project on MyAPP" and then show a summary of that project on the timeline.
(I have already done something similar using only open graph meta tags and a URL that embeds a fully interactive flash player into the timeline, just like a youtube video)
I read through collections, actions, stories and other stuff, but I still don't know:
Is it possible to do this: share on behalve of the user, custom tailored content? Like custom HTML + CSS + JS (and Flash) ??
If the above is possible, what, nn general lines, must be done to accomplish it? Create a Facebook App, create custom actions, stories, collections, objects... ??
The picture bellow is what RunKeeper posts on my timeline after each of my runs. Is this graph something standard, made by Facebook? Or Runkeeper itself designs, creates and posts the content explicitly that way for their users ??
Is it possible to do this: share on behalve of the user, custom tailored content? Like custom HTML + CSS + JS (and Flash) ??
No, of course you can not embed custom HTML and CSS – since this would not be sandboxed by browsers, you could potentially alter the whole page (think about absolute/fixed positioning, etc.), way to dangerous to allow that.
Flash can be embedded in certain ways – either custom video players for objects of the video type, or previews of flash-based games in the feed (keyword: feed gaming).
The picture bellow is what RunKeeper posts on my timeline after each of my runs. Is this graph something standard, made by Facebook?
That is a story generated for the fitness.runs action and the fitness.unit object type. These are a common action and common object provided by Facebook, and they have the according story type layout pre-setup as well.
If the above is possible, what, nn general lines, must be done to accomplish it?
That question is too broad and general to be answered here. Read the Open Graph documentation, guides and how-tos more thoroughly – and then try stuff out and see what you get.
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I want to be able to post iframe on user's page, i.e. basically completely custom post with its own html markup and its own javascript. Something like when you post youtube/vimeo or coub video, they have their own players.
It seems to be possible just judging from the fact that there are apps exist which allow you to do it and there are also some guides on how to create "iframe app", but those guides seems to be pretty outdated.
I could not find anything about that in facebook docs. Canvas seems to be the closest one, but it's a page outside of user's timeline and I need it to be embedded in the timeline, like a post which can be shared, liked etc.
Any pointers to docs would be appreciated! Thanks!
We currently allow users to post images to their FB wall by using FB.Feed() with a URL of existing images on our CDN and we can include a description, a link, caption, etc.. The interface for posting the image is great because it's built by Facebook and gives the ability to choose who sees it (friends, me only, etc.).
We now want to allow users the ability to post images of their creations in the game, which obviously can't be pre-taken images on our CDN, and we'd prefer avoiding the route of uploading all the images to our CDN then using FB.Feed().
I know it's possibly to upload an image using FB.API() but this requires us building a custom popup to allow the users to type what they want to say for the message of the image rather than using the built-in popup from FB.Feed() and it doesn't give the options of who sees the post and as far as I can tell, it doesn't let us add a link, description and caption.
TLDR: Is FB.API() the only way to UPLOAD an image to a user's wall? If so, this requires building a custom interface for it instead of using the built-in FB.Post() interface, right?
Thanks,
Colter
Edit: I didn't see this post until now, but it's a similar question but I want to know if there is the ability to add a description, link and caption to the image AND use the built-in FB interface.
Copy/paste from Brian Jew's comment above:
"There currently isn't a way to upload screenshots without FB.API(). It does sound like an interesting idea to have something like that for FB.Feed() though."
I have a website on which users can rate a concert and I'd like to post this action on the user's timeline.
But since facebook already has common Rate action only for books and videos, I cannot find a way to do this.
I see two alternatives (but I don't know if they're possible):
Using the common rate action on a custom object (for example, a music festival in my website)
Creating another action which is similar to rate just so I can publish on facebook (it is kind of cheating, but I can't really see another way)
I'd like to know which is the better way to go now, or if there's another alternative.
Since facebook only allows rating for books and videos yet, you could use in your facebook story symbols like ✪ or ✭.
So you only need to write them dynamically into your user story, user feed or the way you let your user post their ratings. I think when you put them into headline, they'll be big enough.
Here are some stars: ✩ ✪ ✫ ✬ ✭ ✮ ✯ ✰
I know that it is just a bad workaround, but as soon as I'll know that facebook changed their rating system, I'll update this answer.
Reading through the FB documentation I'm not sure how to approach this or if it is even possible with open graph.
I'm looking to create a story for a iOS app that will post an image taken by the user, along with title and description written by the user. This will deep link back into the app. Looking at the open graph documentation it looks like that is meant only for known and public accessible content. For example books read, movies watched, achievements earned for games etc.
Can I create user driven posts with open graph, or is it really the Graph API I should be looking at?
Main goal is too keep the content private and only viewable to those users the content has been shared with. Seems any open graph solution would make posts accessible by visiting a og: page with the right variables, no auth needed.
I don't totally understand everything you are asking (and I'm pretty new to all of this too) but here's a link on how to have a user post an image and message. You do need an auth though.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/howtos/adding-photos-to-stories/
I need to create a "contest" page where user will be asked to submit picture.
After that, they should be able to share their picture on FB, Twitter, G+, Pinterest, etc for other people to come and vote.
I want the page to be displayed as a jQuery gallery and whenever people select a thumbnail, the bigger picture open with the associated vote and "share" button.
When a user share an image, I want a specific TITLE & URL associated with that particular image... something like "http://www.mysite.com/contest.html#picture1"... or "http://www.mysite.com/contest.html#picture2"
How is this possible if I only have one page?
I wouldn't have problem if I could use the old "facebook.com/sharer.php" with parameters... but it seems that the Open Graph Protocol is "overiding" the sharer.php parameters....
Works fine with Twitter and Pinterest... I might have the same problem with Google+.
Excuse my bad english, thanks!
Well, set up a (“dummy”) page for each picture, and fill it with the appropriate OG tags … and have your users like that. And then put a JS redirect into that page, so that users following the link when it’s shared on Facebook will get to the “real” address you want them to end up at.
(Btw., IMHO this is what happens too often these days when people think doing everything client-side and client-side only is so “fancy” and that a “good” and “modern” site requires all that AJAX/one-page-only nonsense instead of a real good and working URL structure, and then are not able to handle all that this implies properly …)