I researched a lot but i did not find best solution for my problem.
When I share any link of my blog post on facebook then it shows very small display Picture.
But I want fully large picture when we share a link.
Today i saw a facebook link with a very large size. So I came to know that its possible to have large size of image on sharing the link at facebook.
So please some one give me the best solution for this.
This is screenshot of the post shared on facebook with large preview:
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I am trying to "rebuild" the Facebook share dialog.
I have a website where people can rate products and afterwards they can share a link to this product, whereas the producs are owned by different companies.
So before sharing the link I want that the user has the possibility to preview what the share would look like and show it in preview window on my webiste.
I have managed to get the og:imgage from the website, but lots of website don't have the ogp tags. So I am trying to find out how Facebook chooses the thumbnail that is seen in the share preview.
Do you have any hints?
All the best
I am developing a website where users have the possibility to generate image. I want them to be able to share this image to facebook directly on my page using share button. Not as an article, but as an actual image. Is this possible?
Additionally, as a bonus, is it possible to prompt them option to create a seperate album for it? Since they may share tens and more of these images, it would be good if they wouldb be located on a seperate album or something, so they wont bury other images.
If it is a website, generally you share the webpage/article. There are many types in the opengraph format including ones for video and music. You should read the documentation. If you want the image to uploaded to a user's picture section, I'm not sure that is possible, I think you can only put stuff on a user's timeline. You should have also searched first as there is a stackoverflow question about this already.
Please have a look at the following images:
As you can see these two links both send to an external website but, the big link misleads the user into thinking that it is a picture, therefore boosting clicks, likens and shares on the item.
On the other hand the second picture is generated using the traditional sharer.php feature. Does anyone know how to get a large image for link previews? Or is it something achievable only via paid advertising? (I am not sure about this one, that big link is just a blog post, no reason for paid ads)
I'm working on some new features for a CMS, and I'm having trouble finding the information about how Facebook interacts with other websites. If turn key solutions exist for this I'd love to hear about them, but I'm basically just looking for pointers to documentation of how this stuff works behind the scenes. Including php, wordpress, and drupal since those are the base technologies I'm working with, but other platform solutions are welcome.
When you paste a URL into Facebook's "What's on your Mind" box, Facebook will automatically fetch a short page description, as well as a list of possible thumbnails. If there's a video it will often auto-generate the needed HTML to embed the video. I've also seen features where you link to a business's main website, but then are prompted to "like" their Facebook page.
How can I, as an independent website owner, have my pages reacts to Facebook in this way. For example, on the following page (link to a personal website) I have four images. However, if I drop that URL into a Facebook status update, there are no thumbnails for those images.
Also, while I've inferred several features of the notification box, I'm curious if there's other's I'm not aware of.
Again, while turnkey solutions and existing plugins are of interest, what I'm really after is what sort of meta data I need to embed in my own page, or what special responses I need to make to Facebook requests. In other words, how do I program a website to response correctly to Facebook.
Basically you convey that information to user in terms of open graph meta tags. From that Facebook picks up what type of site it is. Is it about a book or some music or some commerical brand or may be has a FB page linked to it? Check this documentation for general idea about graph objects - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/using-objects/
Coming to specifically the image used as thumbnail, it is specified with og:image meta tag. Important thing to note about it is that FB caches that for ~24hours so don't sweat it if it doesn't show up. You can use this tool to check for your values which fetches it in realtime - https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
Also Facebook happens to have quite a lot of bugs around this, so it might take really long before it start showing up. If its picked up debug tool, then you are fine at code level. Not much that you can do about it.
I happen to know about this as I authored a tiny WordPress plugin for that and boy I know the support requests that used to come in. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-like-thumbnail/
Now for 3rd part of your question, even this is specified through meta tags only, like you have primary video content on your website, and you would like it to embed on Facebook when someone puts a link in the status box, so for that this link has code samples http://garethhooper.com/articles/social-media/45-integration/166-how-to-embed-your-own-videos-on-facebook-using-the-facebook-like-and-share-buttons.html
Hope that sets you on track giving you a head start :)
I was working on an iphone app where users create images (think like a paint program); then they have an option to post it to Facebook: the image would be uploaded to the users albums and simultaneously a post would appear on their stream ("Hey, look what I just made with app X, get it here; etc).
This used to work just dandy, but it seems that Facebook no longer allows images hosted on their domain to be used in stream posts: FBCDN image is not allowed in stream is the error message.
Anyone have a workaround method for doing this kind of "upload and stream post in one shot" kind of thing? I know I could have the users upload all their created images to my own server and use that in the feed post...but that should be totally unnecessary. It shouldn't require an extra server for a user to draw a picture in a paint app and then upload to FB with a corresponding feed post about it.
Thanks!
I posted a similar question and learned that it's now a 2-step process where you upload the image to an album, then include a link to that in the feed. The answer is complicated, so please check over at that link. If you find it helpful, please up-vote that answer. (Feel free to up-vote/accept this one, too, but I understand that's sort of cheating ;)