Having some issues with the feed dialog when attempting to post to a event or fan page. In my application I am using the JS API and FB.ui using the method feed.
But for a demonstration you can do it using the feed url too for example:
http://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=131727613511269&to=287203454659917&redirect_uri=http://www.timeanddate.com/
After clicking share you get the:
Sorry, something went wrong.
We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.
Where:
app_id = your app
to = a event / fan page
redirect_uri = a url you are allowed to redirect to
note that the app has publish_stream permissions. (it also has manage_pages for fan pages)
The app in question by the way is: http://apps.facebook.com/tndcountdown/
Thanks,
Andy
EDIT:
An Example taken straight from the documentation:
http://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=123050457758183&link=http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/&picture=http://fbrell.com/f8.jpg&name=Facebook%20Dialogs&caption=Reference%20Documentation&description=Using%20Dialogs%20to%20interact%20with%20users.&message=Facebook%20Dialogs%20are%20so%20easy!&redirect_uri=http://www.example.com/response&to=287203454659917
just replace to=287203454659917 with an event.. (make a test one like it did there)
A few issues I've run into will dialog is that Facebook tries to fill in any missing data. So if you don't provide a description and caption, Facebook will try to scrape the page to get that content. Depending on how the page responds to the "scraping" Facebook will error out. I always make sure I include at least a space for those fields.
It seems the feed url you provided is similar to what is in the documentation. But the demo in the documentation has extra parameters.
I'm about to add page support to my Facebook app, which does the same thing as yours.
http://apps.facebook.com/countdown-timer/
As I posted here - Facebook Send Button - 'Sorry, something went wrong.'...
I had the same problem & worked out that this was due to linking to a Facebook page that did not have a vanity URL set up (i.e. http://www.facebook.com/CubicMushroom rather than http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=261963707177053). If you set up a vanity URL for the page it seems to work OK (providing you link to the vanity URL version of the page URL).
To claim a vanity URL, once you have a certain no of like (it used to be 25, but think it's a little lower now) visit https://www.facebook.com/username/
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I'm creating a web app which uses Facebook feed dialog plugin in some pages. When I try to share these pages, the URLs posted to the news feed get truncated.
I'm using the direct URL approach. When the user wanna share something, she clicks in a link that is going to redirect her to the feed dialog. The link is composed as shown below:
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=MY_APP_ID&link=SHARED_URL&redirect_uri=REDIRECT_URL
For example:
the URL I have in the "link":http://www.simplecity.com.br/DP/Index/?CID=0&UID=1
the URL I get in the news feed:http://www.simplecity.com.br/DP/Index/?CID=0
Has anyone already experienced this issue? Any suggestion?
The usual cause of this is forgetting to encode the link when you pass it into the Direct FB URL.
Are you forgetting to urlencode the link parameter (i'm especially thinking of the &) when creating the URL you're passing the user to?
I recently encountered the same problem with a straightforward link - I inserted:
https://example.com/page.html
into a page post. However, on the page it was rendered as:
https://example.com/page.ht...
as if the last two characters of the html extension were merely not displayed, as indicated by the elipsis. However, if you copy the link from the post you find that those chars are actually missing and the link resolves as 404. If you edit the post and reinsert the link, it is saved correctly, although the 'overflow' characters are still hidden by the elipsis. Very misleading.
What seems to work best is if you use the Facebook Developer OG tags in the page and then use Open Graph Debugger to scrape the link. This puts the URL in the FB realm and it picks up the correct link just fine. As you are doing this, the debugger tool gives you feedback to the effect: "This is the first time we have seen this URL"; which is baloney if you have put the URL on a FB page beforehand.
I have filed a bug report with Facebook; but I am not expecting them to own up to this bug.
I run a site that allows registered site members to refer people back to my site using their referral link
(EX: http://www.mygreatsite.com/home?ref=MaxP)
Recently I coded into my site an implementation of the "Direct URL Example" (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/feed/) in order to enable my site members to post to their timeline a post which describes my site and includes their own referral link back to my site within the code.
Everything is working fine when a prospective site referral viewing the resulting post clicks upon the post link text (the get sent to a properly formatted referral link as planned - "http://www.mygreatsite.com/home?ref=MaxP"
The problem I'm having is that in the same post if the prospective site referral clicks upon the image then the referral link get's garbled like this "http://www.mygreatsite.com/home?ref=nf" which is a totally invalid referral link that has nothing to do with what link it should be sending them to ("http://www.mygreatsite.com/home?ref=MaxP")
Why is facebook erroneously arbitrarily replacing the proper referrer "MaxP" with "NF" only when clicking upon the image of the post? What does NF mean and why is it there?
Here is the URL that my code is passing to facebook (site url, app id, and name replaced to protect my privacy):
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=161070640444808&link=http://www.mygreatsite.com/home?ref=MaxP&picture=http://www.mygreatsite.com/images/banners/9.jpg&name=mygreatsite.com%20Ultra-High%20Payout%20site&caption=Paying%20DAILY%20to%20virtual%20points&description=%20%20is%20an%20ultra-high%20paying%20get%20paid%20to%20%28site%29%20site&redirect_uri=http://www.mygreatsite.com/members/refer.php
Thank you.
The problem I'm having is that in the same post if the prospective site referral clicks upon the image then the referral link get's garbled like this "http://www.mygreatsite.com/home?ref=nf" which is a totally invalid referral link that has nothing to do with what link it should be sending them to ("http://www.mygreatsite.com/home?ref=MaxP")
ref=nf is a Facebook parameter for tracking where the link click came from/occurred (in this case nf = news feed).
I think Facebook just overwrites any pre-existing URL parameter of that very name by it’s own – so I’d suggest naming your own parameter something different, that does definitively not get used by Facebook, for example myRef=MaxP.
You will still get the ref param from Facebook, but it should result in an URL like …/home?myRef=MaxP&ref=nf, so that you’d still be able to read your own referral value from it as myRef. (In theory; haven’t tested this myself yet – please let us know the result ;-))
I need some information, why like box frame not working: 'Could not retrieve the specified page. Please verify correct href was passed in.'. I`m testing this href in http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug - it says correct answer, but frame not working.
In access logs for UA facebookexternalhit/1.1 always answer status 200 (and 301/302 for specific page).
example page: http://www.now.ru/item/series/comedy/Univer_222394
additional information: on some pages frame works, and some does not work
thanks.
The Facebook Like Box is really designed to use the URL for a Facebook page, not for a general Web Page. It pulls Timeline content from a fan page within Facebook.
It can be used for a Web Page if the page has defined Open Graph Meta Tags and has been Liked at least once. However, there will be no "stream" functionality. The Like-Box for a Web Page would just have functionality similar to the Facepile plugin (except that Facepile just shows you friends, and a Like-Box also shows non-friends.)
Typically, though, you would want to supply the Like-Box with a Facebook Page URL in the following format:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Facebook-Page-Name/Facebook-Page-ID
Perhaps you are intending to use a Like Button or Facepile Social Plugin instead? Either of those can accept any URL as input.
I want a Like button on my web site that Likes my Facebook profile (rather than my web page), so that when a user clicks it they subscribe to my Facebook posts.
I've created the Like button using the tool at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Further down that page there is an FAQ entry:
Can I link the Like button to my Facebook page?
Yes. Simply specify the URL of your Facebook page in the href
parameter of the button.
So, I've edited the href parameter to point to my Facebook page. eg:
https://www.facebook.com/myfacebookid
When a user clicks the Like button it has the desired effect. The user ends up having Liked my Facebook page. This is easily verified by the user going to my Facebook profile and checking that the Like button has changed to Liked.
But. When the user clicks the Like button, and entry appears in their News Feed with a generic Facebook description. ie:
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and
others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to
keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links
and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
I don't want a generic post about Facebook to appear. I want the description to relate to my Facebook account and/or web site.
Normally, I could modify this behavior with the Opengraph og: description tag, but as the page in the href is a Facebook page and not my own, I can't control the Opengraph tags.
I'm pretty sure that this was working okay before I enabled timeline for my account, so maybe this is a timeline bug?
So, how do I add a Like button which a) Likes my Facebook profile rather than one of my own web pages, and b) Posts a description of my Facebook profile rather than give a generic Facbook description?
Are all your fields in the info part of your page filled in, and/or completed? I just tested your theory and it seemed to work as expected, only thing is I know all fields in "info" are filled it. Give that a try.
This may happen if you have filled invalid/incomplete/wrong og tags in past and later changed them. Facebook's cache creates problem sometime.
Try putting all the entries (i.e. all og tags) and then debug them here http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug. This debugger gives a detailed info about the url with og tags and also clears the cache for you.
This should solve the problem.
You have 3 important fields that used on page opengraph: Name,Description,Profile Image.
They are used when some one post your link on Facebook, or Google or some else web service that handle opengraph.
Actually, the suggested answers currently do not work and there is an open bug / ticket on Facebook for it. Up to now, there's no fix.
The problem is that you can not use simply https://www.facebook.com/myfacebookid. You should copy and paste the exact page URL. If you have a low number of likes it would look something like https://www.facebook.com/pages/[YourPageName]/[Your page Id]/, and this is the URL that you should use at this point.
If it does not work, try also https://www.facebook.com/[YourPageName]/[Your page Id]/.
In short, copy-paste the URL, do not type it manually.
I'm trying to add a facebook "like" button to my page, and it is appearing just fine. My problem is that once it is clicked by a user, it says "Like NUMBER" then resets as if the request was canceled or something.
The weird thing is that if I try to like a page using my facebook account it works, but I tried letting a friend like some content and this behavior appeared.
I created a facebook app, specified the site url with a trailing slash, and site domain. I used the app ID with FB.init, and with the open graph tags. I can't figure what I'm doing wrong here. Any help would be appreciated.
Sample page can be found at: http://wiseolive.com/en/doctors/3881-khalid-jamal-salaymeh
First, for the count to work correctly, Facebook needs to have access to the page (in other words a public page). Check your URL in the linter tool (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug) to ensure it can been seen by Facebook.
Secondly, ensure your og: tags are correctly setup. Once again, you can use the linter tool to do that.
Facebook like buttons will show this behavior until they have been scraped by Facebook. That scraping (facebook like docs) will occur every 24 hours, when an admin clicks the like button or the url is put in the url debugger/linter. From what I can tell doing that will solve the problem for that specific link, but not any others you may have on your site.
I don't know of a generic solution for dynamically generated pages unfortunately.