If I add a link from my website to facebook, it acts as if it doesn't have the open graph meta tags and just shows the link. I do have meta tags on that page.
In fact, after I go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug and enter the link there it shows that the scraping is done fine.
Then, if I post the link again, the link displays correctly.
Why does this happen? I can think of one alternative - facebook has some workers who scrape the links posted, if its the first time that link was encountered. Once scraped, all other posts with same links will displayed the scraped data. The debug scraper has priority to input the data instead of the workers.
Is this the case?
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I have inserted the OG meta tags in my pages and also have provided a simple link to help users share the contents on the Facebook using the
https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=[the-urlencoded-link-to-my-page]
link. But I have two problems:
When attempting to share the content for the first time, the
Facebook sharer page only displays a preview box which only contains
the name of the site, and makes me use the Facebook's Object
Debugger to
fetch the meta tags. How can I automate this process?
And secondly, while the Object Debugger report says that it has
found the og:url, og:type, og:title, og:locale,
og:image:width, og:image:height, og:image and the
og:description raw tags on the page, but the image doesn't get
displayed in neither the preview box of the page nor on the shared
status. What I have missed? What's wrong?
To make things clear, sharing on google+ works perfectly (the image gets displayed, the title and the descriptions are in place.)
Thanks in advance :)
I'm sharing posts on facebook and it's not using my updated OG and meta tags. How long does it take for the changes to make affect.
You can refresh the OG tags in the Facebook debugger: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
You can also take a look at this thread with the same question: Share Cache Timeout
Answer from the Like Button docs:
Why and when does Facebook scrape my page?
Facebook needs to scrape your page to know how to display it around
the site. This happens every 24 hours to ensure the properties are up
to date. The page is also scraped when the URL is entered into the
Debugger Tool.
Btw, there is a nice way to update many pages at once in this thread: Facebook Open Graph not clearing cache
i have a web shop build on prestashop.
an i am trying to integrate the Like button. and i observed that on some pages it scrapes out a thumbnail on some other pages it does not.
i found out the page that shows us exactly what the scraper sees
so the home page it ok:
http://www.promotion.ro/shop
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/echo?q=http%3A%2F%2Fpromotion.ro%2Fshop%2Fen%2F
but a product page does not:
http://promotion.ro/shop/en/christmas-gifts/3009-christmas-decoration-set.html
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/echo?q=http%3A%2F%2Fpromotion.ro%2Fshop%2Fen%2Fchristmas-gifts%2F3009-christmas-decoration-set.html
what am i doing wrong?
if i insert the metas, it still doesn't scrape.
I can't see any Open Graph meta tags on 'http://promotion.ro/shop/en/christmas-gifts/3009-christmas-decoration-set.html' and neither can Facebook - the page also takes a long time to respond (~10 seconds) which may be slowing down the lint by Facebook when someone likes the page.
Make sure you have a full set of open graph meta tags and it should work OK
I'm trying to integrate open graph in my website, so that I can post a link to my relevant facebook page and it will display the relevant information (title, description etc).
Yet, even though it worked for some time, now it only displays my domain name regardless of the link I post. No images, no descs, nothing.
I've created a test page to find out what's wrong, but I've come to a dead end.
The test page is W3C valid, the Facebook debugger is parsing all the information correctly, the preview before I post the link to facebook is correct, but when I hit post it displays nothing, just the url.
I've tried several actions such as different doctypes, commenting out the open graph metas, moving js after the metas, removing the meta content-type to no avail, but if you can help me post the test page correctly to facebook, I think I'll be able to find what's wrong with my site.
My website: http://www.accorda.info
The test page: http://www.accorda.info/test.html
My facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/accorda.info
Replace the meta tag or delete some. I don't understand… Facebook OpenGraph Debug tool show IMBb info for your page.
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.accorda.info%2Ftest.html
Remember, Facebook don't update page info real-time. New meta tags can be visible in 2 days.
Apparently Facebook Share doesn't pick up the title / description meta tags that are changed (via JavaScript) after the page load. It basically use the meta tags that are available upon load.
This is a simple example.
The link will change the title / description meta tags upon click. You can confirm that using Firebug.
Click the f|Share button: Facebook still always shows "A title that is available upon page load." and "A description that is available upon page load."
Anybody knows how to fix this?
This is a quote from Facebook. They scrape the page's meta tags when someone shares that page, and every 24 hours onwards (and not on page-load as you suggested). If you change the meta tags, you need to get FB to "lint" your page again using the URL Linter.
When does Facebook scrape my page?
Facebook needs to scrape your page to know how to display it around the site.
Facebook scrapes your page every 24 hours to ensure the properties are up to date. The page is also scraped when an admin for the Open Graph page clicks the Like button and when the URL is entered into the Facebook URL Linter. Facebook observes cache headers on your URLs - it will look at "Expires" and "Cache-Control" in order of preference. However, even if you specify a longer time, Facebook will scrape your page every 24 hours.
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Because the facebook server hits the URL you submit and looks for meta tags. It will always default to the original tags.
I assume that Facebook servers do not execute javascript when they scrape your page.
You could use server-side logic to detect the Facebook user agent and modify the outputted HTML accordingly.
According to the bottom of this page ( http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/ ), the user agent is currently:
facebookexternalhit/1.0
Its none of Facebook business. They just provide an api for it. And api takes meta tags as parameter. So you set your meta tags to facebook sharing.