I have been using addthis script for social media sharing. Now I have to share a song in facebook. I have done so many searches and surfed a lot. I could not find the perfect solution to share a song in facebook using addthis script.
Some posts said that need to keep a facebook appid to share. And some posts said do it simply and don't get complicated. But they does not show the way to reach a solution.
Please guide me to understand what things need to be done for sharing a song in facebook via addthis.
For information, I have tested the following codes to share a song.
<meta property='og:audio' content='song location path' />
<meta property='og:audio:title' content='title' />
<meta property='og:audio:artist' content='Artist name' />
<meta property='og:audio:type' content='application/mp3' />
Unfortunately AddThis doesn't have any control over how your site is shared to Facebook. Your best bet for learning which Open Graph tags to use is to go to the official Open Graph Protocol site http://ogp.me/
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We have been sharing our website pages and articles to LinkedIn for almost 4 years using
https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://example.com/page1/
Until recently, the share block would appear with an image, caption and summary. Just as in Facebook. But now, we find that the summary does not show. I know many have raised this same concern here. One solution I saw in this forum is to switch to forcing visitors to sign into our LinkedIn app and post the status via REST API. My question is, Is this really necessary. We don't have a login feature for our website and to force people to login to LinkedIn app just to show description which is already part of the og tags on the page. Surely someone from LinkedIn can respond to this issue since so many have raised it.
You can use Post Inspector (https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/) to preview how your posts will be shared on LinkedIn.
Alternatively, you can use the Share Plugin (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/integrations/self-serve/plugins/share-plugin) to add a widget for users to easily share content on LinkedIn.
Just take a quick look at the Official LinkedIn "Making Your Website Shareable on LinkedIn" Documentation. I will bold areas of particular interest:
If you're the developer of your website, you'll need to make sure the source code complies with Open Graph Protocol (OGP) and certain image requirements specific to LinkedIn....
Below are the og: tags that must exist and their correct format:
<meta property='og:title' content='Title of the article"/>
<meta property='og:image' content='//media.example.com/ 1234567.jpg"/>
<meta property='og:description' content='Description that will show in the preview"/>
<meta property='og:url' content='//www.example.com/URL of the article" />
And the requirements...
Here are the image requirements specific to the LinkedIn sharing module:
Max file size: 5 MB
Minimum image dimensions: 1200 (w) x 627 (h) pixels
Recommended ratio: 1.91:1
So, if you want to make sure your image displays correctly in the LinkedIn share functionality, make sure your webpage has the following...
<html>
<head>
<meta property="og:image" content="someweburl.jpg" />
</head>
...
</html>
Hope this helps!
I have read many other posts about this issue but I haven't found my solution. When I try to share an url on Facebook, no thumbnail is shown. My site is http://international-student-office.com
I also tried to find out the problem in https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ but I receive this message: Could not retrieve data from URL.
Any who can help me?
Thanks!
You can go for installing the FB Open Graph plugin on your wordpress website. This will solve your problem.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-facebook-open-graph-protocol/
You can use the Open Graph Protocol to handle this. Here the code for an image:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.example.com/images/your_img.jpg" />
There are many plugins for WordPress which add this to your posts / pages automatically, see: WordPress Plugin Search "Open Graph".
A few SEO Plugins out there should do this work too, like WordPress SEO by Yoast.
Another solution is to add it directly in your template by yourself, this depends a little bit of your template, but in common it should be at your post.php and you have to add something like this:
<meta property="og:image" content=
"<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($page->ID, 'thumbnail'); ?>"
/>
for getting the post id, check the whole example at the WordPress Codex.
so one of the functions of the site I am working on is a video blog... using YouTube embedded videos in the posts of the blog section.. and that is working quite nicely... However, when I go to share the post on FB to drive traffic it doesn't pull the thumbnail like it does from sharing this video from youtube.com itself. I know in the past I could add "link href" in my heard of a page to put a fixed custom thumbnail to be pulled... But I was wondering if you guys knew how I might accomplish that Doing it dynamically would be great.
Try this . add into your header.
<link rel="image_src" href="http://www.myfavoritepic.jpg/" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.myfavoritepic.jpg/" />
Is there a special url for sharing to Facebook and Twitter for mobile?
Or are they the same as those from websites?
Using
<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Twitter
for Twitter and
<script>
function fbs_click()
{
u='www.something';
t='title';
window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');
return false;
}
</script>
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=someurl" onclick="return fbs_click()" target="_blank" class="">Facebook</a>
for Facebook.
Your sharing implementation should be the same and should work so long as your mobile users have devices capable or rendering JavaScript. Otherwise you can use each platforms' API url to share inside a link, the only problem is the callback redirects them either to Twitter or Facebook and they'll have to manually return to your site. The links are as below:
Sharing on Facebook:
http://m.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<urlencoded url>t=<urlencoded title>
For example:
http://m.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.google.com
Updating status on Twitter:
http://mobile.twitter.com/home?status=<urlencoded status>
A couple of notes regarding Simpleton's answer.
The http://m.facebook.com/sharer.php URL may not be what you want. The site that you provide in the u query parameter needs to have some tags in the page in order for the share
page to be at all interesting. Just try putting another URL in there other than Google to see what I mean. I was never really able to figure out what it is looking for in the page of the site in order to show anything useful in your share page. I did not see any way to provide extra information about the site you are sharing.
The t query parameter is no longer read by facebook as far as I could tell
I found that the Facebook feed dialog was a better sharing alternative (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/feed/). See the example at the bottom of that page for the information you can share. Paste that example URL in to your browser to see what it looks like. You can play around with the parameters to see what each parameter controls in the post. For example, if you don't provide the caption parameter, it seems that the base URL of the link parameter is used in it's place. To use the feed dialog approach, you need to register your app in Facebook to get an app_id that you will need to include in the feed dialog URL. You also associate your app with a web site URL, which you also use in the feed dialog URL. If you want Facebook to serve you a mobile-friendly page, append &display=touch to the end of the feed dialog URL. Lastly, you must provide redirect_uri parameter where the user will be redirected (with the post ID included as a query parameter), so you have to have something at that URL to handle the response.
Regarding the http://mobile.twitter.com/home?status URL, I learned a couple of things: first, any URL's in include in the status will not be shortened (bummer); second, if your status includes any single quotes, they will be encoded as ' (HTML entity code) but will not get decoded when your post the tweet. However, this doesn't happen if you are posting via the desktop, using the same URL. You can see what I mean by trying the following URL from both your iPhone (I was using Safari on iPhone) and then from your desktop (I was using Safari):
http://mobile.twitter.com/home?status=Wayne's%20World
Note, I do an javascript encodeURI on the status, but single quotes are not generally encodable characters by most URL/I encoders. There are some that will replace the single quote with a %27, but I tried inserting that manually and it still didn't get decoded in the status text.
I hope this information helps someone comes here looking for simple Facebook and Twitter sharing options.
Twitter - This is how I solved the tweet by url for all devices/browsers issue:
http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text= + encodeURIComponent(tweet);
encodeURIComponent - is a built in javascript function, explained here.
The 'http://mobile.twitter.com/home?status=' is not supported, and you will get encoding issues when twitter requests a login.
Facebook - For facebook sharing I used Facebook API example
The url is ok, but you need to do some work on your server to get Facebook to really make it look decent. Facebook now uses "Open Graph", which allows you to add special tags to your web page that Facebook understands. You can define what types of media are on the page, even add your own objects with definitions you create inside your Facebook app. The link to the developer Open Graph objects page is Here.
A sample of Open Graph on a detail page might look like this:
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="YOUR FACEBOOK_APP_ID }}" />
<meta property="og:url" content="The URL that this page is on" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Your domain" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Title of your page" />
<meta property="og:type" content="This is very important - it is how
Facebook refers to your post. Image, video, text, etc. Even custom stuff is
possible" />
<meta property="og:image" content="image url for facebook to display on
the user's wall" />
<meta property="og:determiner" content="auto" />
<meta property="og:description" content="A description you want with this
content" />
And so on. This all goes in the <head> of the page of the actual url you are supplying to Facebook. Then Facebook will translate this into the appropriate post. In addition, you need to set up the Open Graph on your apps developer page, so that Facebook knows to look for the og: tags. It's complicated, but it does work.
Good luck!
When someone posts a link to a web site in Facebook, it populates the link preview box with a photo and some text from the site.
If someone posts a link to my site in Facebook, it is generally just get the site's domain name and one of the images that appears on the site. No text appears.
I would like to be able to control what text and images appear in the link. Is there a specification that they use? Can I provide some metadata so Facebook will display what I want?
Here is Facebook's developer page on their share function.
Basically there are some simple metatags you can use to optimize what appears on FB
<meta name="title" content="title" />
<meta name="description" content="description " />
<link rel="image_src" href="thumbnail_image" / >
AND:
The wiki article doesn't mention this, but Facebook CACHES the results of your site for awhile. So, if you're debugging & doing quick iterations, you either need to wait awhile, or rename the page (index2.html, index3.html, etc) until you find something that works.