I'm trying to implement a basic Facebook like functionality to a site. I've triple-checked & more the meta tags, but the og:description -text doesn't show up in the FB news feed. The title and the image work fine.
Here's the code:
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:title" content="SOG – VEITSIÄ VIIDAKOSTA ARKITÖIHIN" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.finnprotec.fi/webshop/news/2" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Kunhan kirjoitan vaan jotain tekstia nyt." />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Finnprotec.fi" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.finnprotec.fi/webshop/kuvat/kuva517a8539a91f1.jpg" />
<meta property="fb:admins" content="6700009220" />
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="348235131938688" />
When I click on the link on the page, the description shows up nicely under the title:
But when I click on the send button, this shows up on my FB feed:
This is what I'm trying to get:
The url of the current page is: http://www.finnprotec.fi/webshop/news/2
I have tried to clear facebook's cache with the facebook linter, but that hasn't helped.
I just ran into this. I found that the description is actually there - you have to hover over the image to see it. It shows it in the format you want sometimes, depending on the size of the post where you're viewing it.
For example, after I've liked my post, I don't see the description in the post shown when I click on my name and view my wall (where the posts are smaller).
But I do see it when I just go to facebook.com and I view the larger version shown in my stream.
I realize this isn't really answering the question; I couldn't find a way to get it to show the description consistently.
add this two lines to your code after og:image
<meta property="og:image:width" content="400" />
<meta property="og:image:height" content="300" />
it must work
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My site contain all the meta tags required to share on facebook. image, url, site_name, app_id, title , description etc. all the necessary things.
But when somebody share the page, it doesnot show full preview of the image on some phone. On web and some other phone its working fine.
I tried everything. I read full documentation of facebook about web sharing. I tried recommended size of 1200x630 pixel, also the minimum size of 600x315 pixel. Issue is still there. Setting og:image:width and height manually don't really make any change also.
``` <meta property="fb:app_id" content="<<PAGE ID>>" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="<<Site Name>>" />
<meta property="og:url" content="<<URL>>" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Some title" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Play now" />
<meta property="og:image" content="<<image url>>" />
```
I'm building an image on the fly to attach to page to be shared on facebook. Everything seems to be going great until it hits the share dialog. Facebook doesn't seem to be scraping, because the image isn't showing up. If I refresh that dialog page, it does load the image (having crawled it from the first go?).
I've read several pages that say I need only specify og:image:width and og:image:height to allow for immediate rendering, but that doesn’t seem to be working. Here are my meta tags:
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="###"/>
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:url" content="###" />
<meta property="og:title" content="My Page Title" />
<meta property="og:description" content="My Page Description" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://the-domain/the-image.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image:width" content="1200" />
<meta property="og:image:height" content="630" />
<meta property="og:image:type" content="image/jpeg" />
Am I missing something here?
For these kinds of issues, I recommend checking out the debugging tool that Facebook provides. It's great for quick identification of show stopping errors like you're receiving.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
Just a couple of things to keep in mind, sometimes the image or page will time out if Facebook finds that it's taking longer than 1s to fetch the data. I've also found issues with my own implementations if the og:url is different than the page you're expecting Facebook to fetch. The two values must match, because ultimately it's the og:url value that facebook is trying to scrape.
Just wondering what HTML5 element is shown as the image for a Facebook post which contains a preview of the URL mentioned in the post?
I want to post a link to my website and have my logo appear in the image box of the URL preview...
Hopefully my question makes sense.
You can achieve that by adding Facebook specific OpenGraph meta tags in the header of your webpage.
Here are the meta tags you need to add
<meta property="og:url" content="WEBSITE LINK" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:title" content="IT WILL APPEAR IN BIG FONTS" />
<meta property="og:description" content="THIS WILL BE SUBTEXT" />
<meta property="og:image" content="LINK OF THE IMAGE" />
you can check out meta tags in details here
Also to verify how it will look and what actually Facebook sees through meta tags you can go to the Open Graph Object Debugger
Example shows what will be seen once you try to share https://images.google.com
Hope this is what you are looking for.
This Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/damnlolcom/posts/812448255487528 looks like a photo post but is actually link, it clicks through to an external site.
I have tried sharing a link, removing all og metatags from my site except image path but it doesn't look like that.
The closest I can get is the default link behaviour without any title description, so just an image with the url besides/below rather than displayed over the top of the bottom of the image.
So what sort of post is this?
Thanks for any help.
Check out the url in linter .
raw tags found on page
Meta Tag <meta property="fb:app_id" content="172220699476208" />
Meta Tag <meta property="og:site_name" content="Damn! LOL" />
Meta Tag <meta property="og:title" content="Turns Out My Friend's Mom Is A Racist" />
Meta Tag <meta property="og:description" content="Click for your daily dose..." />
Meta Tag <meta property="og:url" content="http://www.damnlol.com/turns-out-my-friends-mom-is-a-racist-47206.html" />
Meta Tag <meta property="og:image" content="http://www.damnlol.com/pics/998/d6c09d2cc01d04bc5e47483e85774aee.jpg" />
Meta Tag <meta property="og:type" content="article" />
Everything looks normal here . They are not using anything special . It is just facebook presents links in slightly different designs on feed on different times .
ps : try setting property="og:type" content="article"
I have a problem whenever I try to click my share button for the first time...
It's not seeing my og:image, but it's seeing my site logo instead.
See: http://d.pr/i/NIQZ
But for the second share and/or second attempt of clicking the share icon again, it begins to load the correct og:image or rather the thumbnail.
Proof: http://d.pr/i/vWAg
Here are my meta tags:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://stmaws.s3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/53184e19fd3401484600109b.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJQPNZH4P5E5ZY4LQ&Expires=1394388088&Signature=QTgflfyCzyIXVB%2BrMn2hBRw6srM%3D" />
<meta property="og:image:secure_url" content="https://stmaws.s3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/http://stmaws.s3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/53184e19fd3401484600109b.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJQPNZH4P5E5ZY4LQ&Expires=1394388088&Signature=QTgflfyCzyIXVB%2BrMn2hBRw6srM%3D.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image:type" content="image/jpeg" />
<meta property="og:image:width" content="300" />
<meta property="og:image:height" content="300" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Check out what I made on Muserk.com" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Check out what I made on Muserk.com" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Muserk.com gives you the ability to legally add music to your videos and share them with the world!" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.muserk.com/video/index/531a092efd3401725c00067f" />
The url that I want to share is: http://www.muserk.com/video/index/531a092efd3401725c00067f
Facebook Debugger tool is showing response code 200 so I can't replicate this issue.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.muserk.com%2Fvideo%2Findex%2F531a092efd3401725c00067f
Sharer link: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.muserk.com%2Fvideo%2Findex%2F531a092efd3401725c00067f
PS: I cleared my browser cache like 5 times already and got no luck.
EDITS:
In my app that uses the sharer.php? way of catering share buttons, how can I implement the scrape=true paramater. Any ideas?
Tried to add the parameter to my sharer link but didn't work
https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.muserk.com%2Fvideo%2Findex%2F531a092efd3401725c00067f&scrape=true