trying to get the facebook like box (the plugin on the facebook developers page) on my website, so i can put the wall posts on the website, but when i enter the facebook url, all i get is Could not retrieve id for the specified page. Please verify correct href was passed in.
Are you using php? You may need to use url_encode('http://mysite.com/etc') on your own own link since I believe it is passed as a variable in the FB like button (could be wrong).
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I’ve recently added a Facebook like button to a site of mine and all seems to work fine except that the post on my Facebook wall has a url with a load of parameters appended to the url.
Example: http://domain.com/this-is-a-new-post-to-test-the-url?fb_action_ids=1403388974344336068&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=sp_facebook_57&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=247881481237582
I have set the open graph meta tag but this does not seem to make any difference.
What I find interesting is that some pages I’ve liked (on a different domain) don’t have these parameters appended to it.
The question is: how to “sanitise” the url on my Facebook wall so it looks like http://domain.com/this-is-a-new-post-to-test-the-url and NOT like http://domain.com/this-is-a-new-post-to-test-the-url?fb_action_ids=1403388974344336068&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=sp_facebook_57&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=247881481237582
Facebook adds these parameters so that website owners can keep track of where incoming traffic from Facebook originated and can not be removed.
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.
So I'm trying to generate the right URL to go in the facebook Like button. The URL is to a person's facebook page and it's generated using their facebook page's ID.
The facebook like button developers page says that I need to include this URL in the data-href="" attribute in the <div> they provide (that the iframe is generated in).
When I go to a URL like http://www.facebook.com/234h23o4ub23 it redirects to the right place. So I'm wondering if I can get away with using this shorter url as opposed to the url that it redirects to like for example: http://www.facebook.com/pages/example-venue-name/234h23o4ub23. I don't have the "example-venue-name" segment of the URL stored in my database making this method very difficult. Is that page going to register that it was liked or do I have to do the entire URL?
The URL on the like button is actually just what the user will follow back, so as long as the user can follow the link, you will be fine. The link is the unique tracker to the object so that Facebook knows distinct objects.
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 am writing a website and want a user to be able to click post to Facebook and have it open a window already filled out with a custom post. I do not want to have to authenticate them with my site or anything like that just send them to a Facebook url with the post already filled in.
Twitter has something like this that I am using. For instance click this http://twitter.com/home?status=This%20is%20a%20custom%20post
Is there a way to do this same thing for Facebook? If so does anyone know the URL?
Thanks
I found the solution I was looking for. To post to a Facebook wall without actually managing tokens you must make a call to the url below with the parameters specified below.
"http://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=YOU_APP_ID&link=A_LINK_HERE&picture=PATH_TO_A_PICTURE&name=SOME_NAME&caption=SOME_CAPTION&description=SOME_DESCRIPTION&message=MESSAGE_TO_POST_ON_WALL&redirect_uri=REDIRECT_URL_AFTER_POST"
This will redirect back to the url that was specified in redirect parameter after the post. It will have the parameter post_id with the id of the new post or no params if they did not post. You can find documentation here http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/feed/.
The Like and Send buttons provide this functionality:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
You include meta tags on your page and the Like / Send button pick this up for sharing to a user's wall.
You can't prefill story text, it's against FB policies. Twitter is cool with that, but on Facebook it's a no-no.
See: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/policy/examples_and_explanations/stream_stories/
Scroll down a bit to 'Platform Policy IV.2'
You can put suggestions of what to say on the screen, but you can't prefill the comment box.