I want to use the sharer.php popup to open the share dialog, but would like to customize it so that the share option is by default not to my profile, but to a page - and ideally also select the page (by id?).
i've looked everywhere but the only documented parameters are ?url= and ?title=, although it seems that there is less known "hidden" way to also define summary and image: ?p[image]= ...
im hoping there is something similar to define the share options?
or perhaps another share screen that i can use to post directly to my page?
tnx!
Avoid usage of Sharer in favor of Feed Dialog.
Feed Dialog may be used to specify where the content is published (to) and who publishing it user or page (from).
You can use Feed Dialog directly or with JaveScript SDK, read the documentation for more details.
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I try to share an URL that contains query parameter in FB.
Here is my share link
Sharing works but my custom query parameter is gone and replaced with facebook query parameters in the facebook timeline something like here
The same problem when FB.ui({ method: 'share',... is used.
It worked well on previous version of facebook sharing sharer.php but it's deprecated now and I have no idea how to make current share work.
We faced same problem. We instead used Feed Dialog that works fine. The irony is that if you read on facebook's developer's site Facebook is recommending us using Share Dialog in place of Feed dialog however, Share dialog does not work as expected.
Here is the link to get more information on Feed dialog
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/feed-dialog/v2.2
Personally i like Feed dialog more the share cause it gives you some additional properties to manage how dialog should appear
i assume you solved your problem in a different way already but i have found a solution for this. Just in case somebody else comes across this question.
Facebook strips the parameters only when it is more or less sure that the file is an php file.
So for http://example.com/?test=1
or http://example.com/index.php?test=1
the parameters are removed.
But if you make it look like a normal html file, it works:
http://example.com/whatever.htm?test=1
for example is posted with the parameters.
Of course you can use some simple mod_rewrite Rule to redirect the request to the original php file:
RewriteRule /whatever.htm(\?.*) /index.php%1
(rule is untested but should work hopefully)
I've came across this page https://www.tumblr.com/examples/share/sharing-links-to-articles.html which shows a possible way to customly create a share URL for tumblr.
Simplified version of what they have:
Click to share
http://jsfiddle.net/m5ow6bhs/2/
This will take you to the log in page or straight to the share page if you're already logged in. However, if you change the http%3A%2F%2F part to a simple http:// it will now load to a "Not Found Page". http://jsfiddle.net/m5ow6bhs/3/ What the hell Tumblr?
Do you guys have any idea what's going on or what's the correct code to share something to Tumblr?
Cheers.
As with most share services, the URL should be passed as an encoded string. This supports the OPs comments about http%3A%2F%2F(encoded) and http:// (raw).
Tumblr provides variable transformations in the theme operators to handle encoding, but sadly it doesn't work with custom variables.
One quick solution is to drop the http:// part. Example: http://jsfiddle.net/L9jd8dhz/
I have discovered as of recently that the share URL needs to be updated as such:
https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl=<-urlencode(share_url)->&posttype=link
The &posttype= seems to be a new requirement to make the share work correctly.
I have a music app that I developed using HTML5's canvas. As different songs are selected, I have jquery that dynamically updates the URL in the browser to point to the correct song. I also have jquery that updates fb:like element. By using the debugging tool, I'm able to cache the pages (since my server is able to return correct meta-data for each URL provided).
When I do this and like something on my website, I end up with a message saying "Sami liked a page." with some info underneath.
Next, I use the Open Graph curl commands to add a Recommend action (something I've created) to a given URL from my website. Now, when I like the same url, I end up with a message saying "Sami recommends this link" with some info underneath.
What I'd really like to do is have this message display "Sami recommends a song on website", which is what the message looks like when I look at the preview for my Song object in the Open Graph. Is there any way to do this?
Best,Sami
EDIT: probably good to note that I'm also getting some extra meta info from the website (such as og:site_name), but that this stuff is not being saved into the Actions portion of my Open Graph (as in I can't view that info using the Open Graph link to view my current Recommendations), though I can see it using the debugger tool.
The facebook like button "triggers" the most generic action which is the like, you can how ever change the like button to use "recommend" instead of "like".
In the documentation for the like button, in the attributes table you can see the "action" attribute which is:
the verb to display on the button. Options: 'like', 'recommend'
Also when you "Get Like Button Code" thing you can select Verb to display.
If you want to use your own actions you'll need to define them in the app settings page as explained in the Define Actions guide.
I have an app with blog records per each user. I have add share button to my app, to give ability to post interesting blog records to users time line or to send to other user. But in default it takes image and text for share as it wants and not always correctly. So I find out that it can be dirven by meta tags (using for example "image" property to set image for share dialog). That's work ok on main page (where I'd like to make ability share with whole application), but on pages of blog records I cann`t customize it. meta tag should be in , but all info (short text and image of blog post) I get later in body, so I can insert it. How can I manage with this? Or may be there is another way to share content with?
What blog engine are you using? If it is a wordpress - try this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-share-new/ from offician facebook docs http://developers.facebook.com/docs/. Otherwise I'd suggest to find a facebook plugin for your blog engine using google and install it.
I used to be able to construct a link like this:
http://www.facebook.com/connect/prompt_feed.php?message=hello
It would go to the page it currently does (click on the link to see) but it used to pre-populate the text field with the value of the message parameter. Now the text field is empty.
I suppose facebook changed this functionality, but is there a replacement that provides the same functionality? Note that I do not want to have to authenticate the user or connect them to an app. I am looking for a simple url that will just open a new window with a status message pre-populated so the user can just click "Share" (exactly how this prompt_feed.php used to work). Anybody know of a way to do this?
What about the feed dialog?
See here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/feed/
Update: Ok, now I see that the user must have already authorized the app : [
Update 2: This isn't either a full replacement but an alternative - you could use the sharer php
http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=yoursite.com&t=yourtitle
In that case yoursite.com should contain og meta tags. It does not prefill the message though : [