I'm curious if anyone has had success controlling content shared by Google+'s +1 and Share buttons on Facebook tabs. I'm seeing Google scrape content from the brand's main page (http://www.facebook.com/brand) instead of the tab itself (http://www.facebook.com/brand/app_123456789).
I've tried the microdata and Open Graph tag methods documented for the G+ Snippet but I see no difference. https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/snippet/ And I don't see a way to build my own share URL like you can with Facebook's dialogs.
You can build your own share URL using the Share Endpoint: https://developers.google.com/+/web/share/#sharelink-endpoint
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The original method for sharing links with a custom image, text and link appears to have been stripped from Facebook. I for one would love to see them bring this back.
Here is my situtation. I have a Facebook tab that loads a page that is hosted under my hosteddomains.com. I setup a Facebook app to work with my Facebook tab. When I try to use the new "Share Dialog" if the link I want to share is not the same as the app domains then i get an error and I can't share the link. Am I doing something wrong or is this what they intended to do?
IF that's what they intended to do then there is no way that this will replace what sharer.php could do. I could be on any site and share any link with an image to Facebook and have it posted to my wall.
The question is if i am on facebook tab and i want to share a link (I want a dialog box with a custom photo, title, link, and summary) and allow my users to post this custom message to there Facebook status.
Maybe i am confused about how to accomplish this, but so far i am not having much luck.
I miss the good ole days when i could just construct a URL and that would give me the ability to share what i want to share. Twitter and Pinterest have these methods.
Here are some code examples of things that I've tried that did not work:
Option #1:
The url in this option goes to page that I created on hosteddomains.com that has the Open Graph Meta Tags in it. My idea was to share these pages from my server that will direct them back to my Facebook tab. The result I was getting from this method was seeing the title of the tab from my FB page and description. The reason turned out to be that if i set the og:url to my Facebook tab page, that's the page that would get scraped. That's not what i was expecting from this method. I thought it would take the meta tags from the page i shared and the url with it. Not take all of the info from url and ignore the meta tags.
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=[URL]"
target="_parent">SHARE ON FB</a></p>
Option #2:
Tried using Facebook Share Dialog. I had an interesting time with this one. I setup a new Facebook app. I tried the Facebook tab as the URL and also my custom url to the page that has custom open graph meta tags. The facebook app has two App Domains - hosteddomain.com and websiteA.com. I also created a Page Tab section. The page tab section loads the HTML page that was loaded in the tab we made for our facebook page. Issue with this method is I don't get a custom open graph options set from my php page. I'm picking up information from the facebook tab again. At least now the dialog box shows the name of the new app. I am limited in what i can share using this method. The url i share has to belong to the App Domains. In order to have multiple app domains, I had to make that Page Tab section and then add the second url to the App Domains field, otherwise i got a warning.
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/dialog/share?app_id=[appID]&display=popup&href=[url]
&redirect_uri=[url]&ref=s" target="_blank">SHARE THIS</a>
Option #3
The last thing I tried was the fb-share-button using the Javascript SDK. I get the same result as option #1. I don't think there is much difference between these two. Option 3 here is a bit easier to deal with and cleaner code. In this example, the url is to my custom page on hosteddomains.com that has my custom open graph meta tags. That doesnt seem to matter though. It still pulls the info from the og:url meta tag. I tried removing the og:url meta tag. I get the same result. Is it the Page Tab info interfering?
<div class="fb-share-button" data-href="[url]"></div>
Some Background Info
As of Mar/Feb 2014, the Facebook sharer.php way of sharing content no longer accepts custom parameters. See response from a Facebook engineer.
It used to allow multiple parameters in this form:
http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s=100
&p[url]={url}
&p[images][0]={img}
&p[title]={title}
&p[summary]={desc}
So you could override the title, image and description that facebook would scrape from the page, but it seems these are now ignored.
Instead, Facebook now favours the opengraph tags on the page.
So why is this a problem?
This is my scenario: I have a gallery page with multitple images. I have a lightbox that loads an image when clicked, and when the lightbox is shown, I also show share icons for all the major social networks, including facebook.
The facebook sharer url is built up using the above format, so I pass in the specific image together with the image caption. These values are now ignored.
Feed Dialog To The Rescue?
The Feed dialog method of sharing is now the preferred method, and it supports passing in custom images and captions. It works perfectly in my above gallery scenario. But it has a limitation: it does not allow you to share the content on a page you manage like the sharer.php does:
So my question is...
How can I get the Feed Dialog to work like the sharer.php and give the end-user the option to share to a group, friend's timeline or a page he/she manages?
But it has a limitation: it does not allow you to share the content on a page you manage like the sharer.php does
It incorrect statement. You can post anywhere using the Feed Dialog! You can use the to parameter and give it the concerned id where you want to share the feed.
For example
PS Facebook has introduces Graph API v2 today, and introduced new Share Dialogs over Feed Dialogs. I'm not share if that's to your significance but you can have a look.
I have a wordpress site which is meant to use via Facebook page tab. I have made a page tab and added an iframe tag which opens the site into the page tab. I have added a Facebook plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook/) to publish new posts to my page's wall to get more traffic to the site. All this works perfectly.
My problem is the following:
The plugin publishes a link to e.g. www.mysite.com/fb/new-event/. The site is meant to use only via the page tab, not at that domain. The link should be customized to open the page in the Facebook page tab via iframe.
Does anyone have an idea how to fix this or how to achieve the solution another way?
I think that it can be done by customizing the link to point first at the right Facebook page tab and then inside the iframe to the correct page.
I want to make a Facebook Like Button for Facebook's individual page.
For example: http://www.facebook.com/michelleobama/posts/10150938120900578
I get the code from facebook developer's page, and put on it to a my html.
My html: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/188423/like.html
But raised a error.
So, I try to check the url by URL Linter.
It say "Facebook Can't Crawl Itself. Sorry!".
Dose it possible that I want to do?
Unfortunately Facebook won't scrape OG tags from Tab Apps. However you can let Facebook scrape Canvas apps (apps on apps.facebook.com). If you want to implement multiple Like buttons inside a Tab I recommend setting up simple HTML pages that include the appropriate OG tags as well as a redirect to your Tab in either a Canvas app (this way it feels like you're never leaving "The Facebook experience") or some external location (on your web server).
I am building a tab for a Facebook page, and this tab contains the deprecated share button, outlined here - http://developers.facebook.com/docs/share/
By my understanding, the default functionality of this button is to share the URL of the page it currently lives on. But I don't want to share the url of the iFrame contents, but rather, the Facebook page, with whatever the user is currently viewing within that iFrame.
Currently, I have it hard coded to share the URL of the FB page itself but have been told by my boss that this is not what they want. The active page within the tab must also be shared along with it.
Hopefully I've made this clear enough. Thanks in advance for any help or consideration with this issue.
Cheers!
Since the various states of your app/tab are not affected by the parent document's URL, this isn't possible.