OAuthException: (#100) picture URL is not properly formatted - facebook

From last few week I have been getting:
OAuthException: (#100) picture URL is not properly formatted
for some posts. The behaviour is inconsistent.
I am using Facebook's Graph API. I can't think of anything in my code that could warrant this behaviour.

I faced this problem days ago , and I found that I was sending the image into "/me/feed" which must be "me/photos", also I tried posting image from different URLs not included in App Domain URLs. and it works fine for me

Usually #100 error occur when you try to use a URL which is not included in the pre-approved list that you fill out in the basic settings on the app. The list is marked by the "App Domain:" in the image below.
if you are using an external repository you will need to add it for it to work. You can see below that I have added several to this project.

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Facebook Not Scraping URL Properly (Blocked URL) On Fresh URL's

I have started to experience a really strange problem with Facebook link scraping/caching which seems random in nature.
On brand new posts when I go to check: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ with my new URL I get a message saying 'Cannot scrape: URL blocked'
We have literally been sharing URL's to Facebook for YEARS with no problem whatsoever. All open graph tags are present and working fine.
What is really weird is if I just manually press the 'scrape again' button it grabs all the bits properly and says everything is fine. It's always just the first attempt.
I have also tried manually calling the scrap API instead of letting Facebook do it when someone shares the URL for the first time and still sometimes (not always) it returns empty (just 'id' and 'url' returned) indicating the URL was blocked.
What's going on here it's driving me mad? We are nowhere near our API limits if maybe that was the issue...
Why would it say blocked first go on the debug page then literally 2 seconds later you press 'scrape again' and it works fine.
Just to note sometimes when it says blocked it still shows maybe the image in the link preview but no title or description. It's like it's grabbed some tags but then given up. Very strange...
I have checked our access logs and I can see 'Facebot' accessing our site fine.
Hope someone can help, I am really hoping this is some weird Facebook bug as I can't see any change in our code base that would effect this.
Facebook does not return anything helpful when this happens even with the API. I have no way in contacting Facebook direct either. If we are somehow getting blocked I would love to know why and fix that issue. But it's impossible to debug at the moment.
Just to note I have 3 sites all running the same code base (WordPress environment). They are all experiencing this issue. All been running fine for many years.
Cheers
This was to do with rate limiting that was not visible in the Facebook APP dashboard. Helpful...
Full details here: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/232343637174087/
Solution for your problem: You can use Facebook image button after adding link on Facebook news feed, like shown in iamge
second thing upload image on othe site and give the image path to your website and then put it on your news feed, you can get definitely positive result using this two methods.
also refer this image
thanks hope this two will work for your problem

Failed to get composer template data

Few of our websites like womens-health.com.my, mens-health.com.my, and elle.my having problem post any article to Facebook. When I test any URLs of these websites in Facebook Debugger, it gave me warning messages said that Failed to get composer template data. and Critical Errors That Must Be Fixed. I have no idea what causing this as other of our websites are working fine.
It's an actual Facebook bug, which is being fixed right now: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/918385908182634/
In summary, you can fix this by making sure that article:author only contains Facebook user IDs or Facebook profile URLs.

Breaking change with link field when posting to facebook feed via api

We have a facebook website application that posts to user home page feeds as well as feeds to pages which they administer.
Until recently everything worked fine (maybe until the beginning of the year when the 1.0 API was discontinued). The problem turns out to be the presence of the "link" field.
All is well when posting to a user home page. But when we post to a another page the user is an admin of (or a group), the call fails with the following error.
The error that returns is:
{ message: '(#200) Permissions error',
type: 'OAuthException',
code: 200 }
Removing the link field is enough to make the call work again. I had thought we might affected by this issue: Stream post URL security - Website/FB page url. However, our applications Stream post URL security migration is set to off and we are linking to a url in our domain. When posting to a home page the url can be within our app domain or without and all works fine.
As I've been testing I've boiled the calls down to the following in every version of the api.
{{facebookId}}/feed?link=http://cir.cl
{{pageId}}/feed?link=http://cir.cl
For the former we use the long-lived token we got after authenticating. For the latter we use the token returned by {{facebookId}}/accounts or {{facebookId}}/groups. The former works. The latter fails, but changing link to message=foo works fine.
Has anyone noticed a breaking change that touches on this issue?
It turns out it's a valid bug and our friends at Facebook are addressing it:
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/755514351208694
How often does that happen? I'm just surprised the internet isn't blowing up about this. Dozens and dozens and dozens of applications must be affected.

(#100) link URL is not properly formatted when posting to a facebook page

I am trying to post a URL to a facebook page. using PHP SDK.
I am able to post successfully from my localhost. But on the live server, I get the result "Sorry, something went wrong".
when running the code from live server, I have no problem obtaining access_token to post to the page.
Only the posting will not work.
I tried to post the link manually using the graph api explorer. and found that
I am ABLE to post a message successfully via the graph api explorer.
I am NOT able to post a URL via the graph api explorer. I get the error
"(#100) link URL is not properly formatted"
I do encode the link that i am trying to post. and they are valid, existing links.
I even tried using http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com , and it would return the same error.
Some Other information
The code is executed from mydomainname.com/folder/
I have added the domain name to "App Domains" field.
Sandbox Mode is On.
When I tested from my local, I was able to post 25 links to the
page.[after which it was giving errors]. When things were not
working at the live server, I came back to locahost to again test
with 25 links and more and found things to be working fine from
localhost. I wonder if I hit some limit or my application has been
black listed.
Anyone has got any ideas?
Thanks
UPDATE
I took the URL that was used by the live server (to post link to the facebook page) , and used fiddler to post it from my local machine. and it worked.
so i am wondering whats preventing the code from working successfully from the server?
I tried the same code from another domain and it worked.
I am yet to find out if it was not working because of the way the 1st domain was sending CURL requests, or if the domain was blacklisted for posting too much in the past.
either way, facebooks error messages are not at all helpful!
If you're using your own wall, notice the difference between:
"me/feed" and "me/photos" url. The first one doesn't work!!!
I also tried the same thing but unfortunately it works for online images but not for local ones. i.e
'picture' => class_exists('CurlFile', false) ?
new CURLFile($photo, 'image/jpg') : "#{$photo}",
will not work, but
'picture' => "http://i.stack.imgur.com/VGWZD.jpg?s=24&g=1",
will work
I also had some problems with this. Weirdly enough it only worked when I sent the url to the picture without any URL encoding via the POST request to the Graph API.
Try the link without the quotation marks "". I was stuck as you but not any more without the quotation marks.

facebook does not see my domain

I've been having issues recently with setting up links between Facebook and a website I've developed - www.newcarpromotions.co.uk. After some digging around, and advise on this forum, Ive used the following link to see what Facebook thinks of my domain:-
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=newcarpromotions.co.uk
What it returns is as follows:-
"Error Parsing URL Error parsing input URL, no data was scraped"
Now Ive tried all my other domains which return all the correct information as you would expect.
Has anyone seen this before? It looks like Facebook doesn't think my domain exists! If that's the case any idea how I can get this resolved?
Nick
According to this post (Linter gives "Error parsing URL" error) it seems that the facebook object debugger can return that error if it fails to parse your page somehow. I'm suggesting that facebook can get to your website but is failing for a different reason. You may want to look at your request logs to verify that facebook is hitting your site.
If worse comes to worse you can open a bug here: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/