My page tab app includes a link to send a message directly to the owner of the page. The same app is also available via OG links and canvas. The send message link works on desktop fine, but when in a mobile phone I would like it to display the mobile version of the send message dialog.
The link:
https://www.facebook.com/messages/USER_ID
Will open a send message dialog in Facebook desktop version.
Is there an equivalent for mobile? (ie: https://m.facebook.com/...) ?
https://m.facebook.com/messages/compose?ids=USER_ID
You can specify more than one user_id , using comma to separate them
If you want a shorter version, you can also try it with this format: https://m.me/PAGENAME
Tested with an iphone and it was working fine. You may need a username associated with the page.
you can also use this with the public id and it will redirect you to the conversation view :)
https://m.facebook.com/messages/thread/* FB ID here */
In my case, PAGENAME need to be cut name of your page and only input numbers.
ex) your page link address
https://www.facebook.com/test-12345
↓
https://m.me/12345
Related
I've use following URL to send message with prefill text.
http://www.facebook.com/messages/[user]?msg_prefill=[message]
ex. http://www.facebook.com/messages/facebook?msg_prefill=hello
But msg_prefill parameter seem to be depreciated on new Facebook Message layout.
http://mashable.com/2012/08/22/facebook-revamps-messages-to-look-more-like-email/
Does anyone know how to add prefill message for new layout?
I still can't send message with prefill text. But I've found another way to send link using Send Dialog.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/send/
ex. 1
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/send?app_id=123050457758183&to=zuck&name=Hello&link=http://www.google.com/&redirect_uri=http://www.facebook.com/
However this may not working for some people (including me) as using some domains in "link" parameter cause error as this bug.
http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/284149695026014?browse=search_509788e98cb627971133933
ex. 2
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/send?app_id=123050457758183&name=People+Argue+Just+to+Win&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCili.Pica%2Fapp_469715143040257&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fresponse
Also, Send Dialog links can't use on iPhone apps, Android apps and mobile version of facebook.
ex. 3
https://m.facebook.com/dialog/send?app_id=123050457758183&to=zuck&name=Hello&link=http://www.google.com/&redirect_uri=http://www.facebook.com/
I will try to explain a bit the context for my problem.
Context:
A while ago I started working on Facebook application. One of the requirements is to be included in a Facebook page as a tab. This application will contain on a page a send button in order to be able to make it more engaging with specific people, users of the application would choose on their own. The reason behind this is because the Facebook page containing the application is related to alcohol, and "liking" the application will get more audition and potential children. Another reason for using send button rather then other similar options from Facebook (like send dialog etc.) is because in Facebook documentation was stated that send button works on mobile devices and other options don't.
Problem:
My problem is related to the send button. What I need is to be able to completely configure the send button: url, image, title, description. I have research the open graph tags in order to be able to do this. Everything works fine if the page I want to be sent with the message is a website OUTSIDE Facebook. Once I started to use the url of a Facebook page (let's call it www.facebook.com/mycustompage), then the crawler takes the images, title, description from facebook.com ignoring the actual page and the produced message is not what I want.
I have searched a lot to better understand this limitation and could not find anything relevant.
The only article I could find as a potential solution was (and even this I had trouble finding):
Send button returning error codes, like button works fine
The above discussion is a workaround which I have already put in place but is not 100% what I want. The described workaround is about putting in the send button:
<div class="fb-send" data-href="http://www.mycustomdomain.com/og"></div>
a page that sniffs the user agent. In case the user agent is Facebook crawler to serve an html empty page just with the open graph tags, otherwise redirect to the desired URL - which in our case is the facebook page www.facebook.com/mycustompage.
The message produced contains:
the title which is a link to www.mycustomdomain.com/og which when
clicked opens a page in a new tab with the address
www.facebook.com/mycustompage - this is relatively ok
under the title I have a "sub-title" readonly text containing the domain of the link: www.mycustomdomain.com - THIS IS NOT OK since I don't want to share where I have hosted the application.
the image and the desired description - this is ok.
Conclusion:
What I want to know if there is a better way to do this rather than this workaround.
If not I would like to know how I can hide for the produced message the "sub-title" so that the hosted domain is not visible.
I've working on a program where an email is sent to a user, and a link to open the iPhone app is embedded in the email. The problem is that when the user clicks the link to open the app, mail has stripped out the colon, so the link no longer works!
The link being created basically looks like this:
#"<BR><BR><BR>Open App"
But the link, when clicked in the email, opens this in the browser instead:
myApp//
with no colon, so the app doesn't launch and the browser says it can't find the page.
Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks!
It just should be:
#"<BR><BR><BR>Open App"
As a workaround for custom urls being blocked by gmail, what you could do is set up something like http://myapp.mydomain.com/ up do redirect to myapp://... That way it'll look like a normal domain but open your app. On the plus you will be able to see how many people click your link, though on the down side it'll pop via Safari first.
Add 'http:' to all your images and urls, iphones dont recognize links w/o that. also use single quotes for them(').eg.
<a href='http://xyz.com'></a><img src='http://xyz.com/pqr/abc.jpg'></img>
I am looking for help to validate when a Facebook APP has been installed. I am currently using PHP SDK to have the clients sign in and in the same manor I would like for them to return to the site once the APP is completed and installed correctly.
Is there a method to use this link and have it return with the client id?
https://www.facebook.com/add.php?api_key=XXX
You should not use https://www.facebook.com/add.php?api_key=XXX for any cases other addition of application to page as a tab (and even this is undocumented).
If you're using PHP-SDK you should use Facebook::getLoginUrl to log user in, which support redirect_uri parameter so you can add client id as argument to this URL
Update:.
As it turns question is about adding application tab to page you should be using Add Page Tab Dialog to provide user with a way of "installing" application to page without leaving your app.
You can refer to answers on How to add tab application to a page with the "new auth dialog" for more info.
Update 2:
How to reach applications running as Page Tab described in "Integration with Facebook APIs" section of Page Tab Tutorial:
your application will also receive a string parameter called app_data as part of signed_request if an app_data parameter was set in the original query string in the URL your tab is loaded on. For the Shop Now link above, that could look like this: http://www.facebook.com/YourPage?v=app_1234567890&app_data=any_string_here. You can use that to customize the content you render if you control the generation of the link.
You not required to add app_data, just use v=app_APPID to link to your page tabs (Facebook itself using sk instead of v, both works).
I'm trying to use Facebook Send Dialog in a WinForms frame with a browser control and direct URI (you can repro just by clicking the links below). It works fine with link=http://www.foo.com, sending the message properly if you enter a message and click "Send":
http://www.facebook.com/dialog/send?app_id=179873125388138&link=http://www.foo.com&redirect_uri=http://jonnewman.com/&display=popup&to=100002395463043
However, this fails with link=http://www.facebook.com or any path under it. Clicking "Send" just gets you "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.":
http://www.facebook.com/dialog/send?app_id=179873125388138&link=http://www.facebook.com&redirect_uri=http://jonnewman.com/&display=popup&to=100002395463043
The aim is to write a script to make it easier to send messages asking all users in a particular group to a page (prepopulating the recipient list). Since Facebook has restricted groups larger than 500 members, our organization has to move to a Facebook Page, and I want the Send Dialog to link the new Facebook Page. Why won't this work? Is there a workaround? Are there other criteria for what links Send Dialog will and won't send?
Also, is there a way I can determine whether the send occurred or not, for example an event to catch? Whether you send or cancel, the Navigated event is still redirect_uri/#_=_.
Once I have Send Dialog working, I will add Show-FBSendDialog to Facebook PowerShell Module, which already has numerous capabilities to automate Facebook from PowerShell.
ran some tests and it seems it is blocking any fb domain http://on.fb.me/91S2P8, sometimes this is temporary otherwise need to rethink...
I see your second link isn't working... but if you add your company page id or name to link it should work. following link works for me:
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/send?app_id=179873125388138&link=http://www.facebook.com/Intel&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fjonnewman.com%2F&display=popup&to=100002395463043
hope this helps
I got solution. I also had same problem. No post helped me. Solving error for 2 days.
There were posibility of two mistakes(that was done by me).
Link Parameter given in url should be working. I have linked to api namespace but not given SSL url. So it was giving problem. You can given your web site address.
And redirect_uri parameter should be working. Try to give redirect_uri to same page most probably.