Is it possible to link a Comments Box to a (public) post on facebook?
I've tried several urls for the Comments Box:
graph.facebook.com/postid
permalink
facebook.com/user/posts/postid
none of them worked.
I know I could use the Graph API to get and post comments on the users behalf, but that requires the user to accept my application (which seems a bit like an overkill, just for commenting a post in facebook).
The comments plugin are for outside (of Facebook) URLs only. It is not possible to use the plugin for public posts on Facebook.
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I have a page on the site with comments implemented by plugin Facebook Сomments https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments. Also, I have Facebook post with comments (like this - https://www.facebook.com/20531316728/posts/10154009990506729/)
Is it possible to synchronize comments of the plugin Facebook Сomments and comments on the Facebook post? I want to messages, added to the Facebook post, displayed on the web page with the plugin Facebook Comments. And vice versa.
That’s called Comment Mirroring – see docs for the plugin, https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments/
Be aware though that this will only work on new URLs, after you enabled it; it will not work for URLs that you already had the plugin on before.
Facebook comments plugin - as far as I understand, if I have put the facebook comments plugin on a post web page, and the permalink of the post being commented on matches the base URL, then comments are stored via facebook using my post permalink.
Lets say if I post the permalink onto my facebook page wall (which I am the admin of), the open graph tags come into play, all the relavant data is pulled in, fb:admins, fb:app etc.
But is it possible to connect my facebook page (using my facebook page ID) to that permalink - so that comments posted on the page using comment plugin, connect/link with the post comments on my facebook page wall?
Thanks
This is currently not possible. We've implemented custom solution using Facebook Application and Facebook Javascript SDK on the website itself. You need to query the comments table of a specific Page post via FQL using your app access token from your server to retrieve all comments and render them on the page.
Then you need to provide user with several entry points for several states in order to enable posting for them. You need to solve four cases:
User doesn't like the page and didn't authorize your app
User doesn't like the page and authorized your app
User likes the page and didn't authorize your app
User likes the page and authorized your app
User needs to like your page and authorize your app with publish_stream permission in order to be able to comment on your page posts via your website. Of course you need to maintain reference between posts on your page and posts on your website.
The website where we did this a few years ago is BIGGBOSS click on "Komentáře" and find the same post on Facebook with the same comments.
As far as I understand your question its not possible to connect the comments from the commentbox, integrated in your non-facebook page (e.g a blog of yours), to the comments which are posted to a post on your fanpage.
The only solution would be to build an custom commentbox with the open-graph and publish the comments to the fanpagepost and additionally extract the comments out of the fanpage to display them on your blog.
But this requires accepting permission dialog before people are able to comment on your blog which would probably decrease the comments made. You would lose the benefit of the built-in commentbox.
Facebook recently added link previews to user comments.
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/07/21/facebook-comment-previews/
My question: is there a way to display this link preview using any of the Facebook APIs and publish_stream permission? (Graph, rest, etc)?
I've tried posting a URL in the body of a comment using the Graph API /comments endpoint, but no link preview is shown.
The feature might still be too immature to allow this, but I'm wondering if any one has tried it and got it to work in some way.
Sure. Just post a comment (for example) with youtube video and it will transfer to embed one
I have an app that posts a message to a person's Facebook Timeline / wall.
Is there a way to disable commenting or likes on that post via the Graph API?
No that's not possible with graph api!
You can only disable commenting for a post if the end user is a 'page' or public profile, but not if posting to a normal user.
No - whether or not a post can be liked or commented on is determined by the privacy settings of the user who posted the content - for example, you may not be able to comment on posts in a Group, even if the posts are visible to you, because the Group admin has selected to only allow members to interact with content there.
Similar restrictions are in place for user profiles (allowing comments on content posted to a user's timeline) and pages (e.g. only fans of the page can comment).
There is no way to make a post and have an option or parameter on that specific post which prevents Likes, comments, sharing, etc for that content.
My application has obtained publish_stream permissions for a Facebook user.
I'd like to allow the user to post comments for a target URL directly from my mobile application, rather than opening up an embedded browser that then shows the Comment Box plugin. That is, the user doesn't necessarily want to post the link to their feed -- rather they want to participate in any Facebook comment discussion that surrounds that URL.
Naturally, I can read the comments for any URL via the Graph API (eg: a techcrunch article) but I do not know how, or if I can add comments to an arbitrary URL programmatically.
Would love to hear any other suggestions or workarounds as well. My hope is to piggy back on Facebook comments to allow my users to have a conversation surrounding URLs of interest to them. If at all possible, I'd also prefer to use Facebook, though I can see using Disqus or similar services would be another possibility.
Use graph api, demo comments here
make POST to
http://graph.facebook.com/comments/?ids=http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/22/big-surprise-the-ipad-trumps-android-tablets-at-the-office/
with field message and value "yourmessage"
I genuine Facebook API bug.
Cannot comment via Graph API on Comments Plugin (Probably try Legacy API)
Graph API