og:type and valid values : constantly being parsed as og:type=website - facebook

Question

Could someone sugggest why the FB debug/lint tool is saying og:type is "website" despite the og:type being set to og:bar?
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=www.shamrockirishbar.com%2Fpubquiz
As a result its not validating the og:location and similar which are relevant for the "bar" type.

Answer 1

bar is deprecated. Please check ogp.me for the current docs.

Answer 2

As of May 2018, you can find the full list here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph#object-type
apps.saves An action representing someone saving an app to try
later.
article This object represents an article on a website. It is the
preferred type for blog posts and news stories.
book This object type represents a book or publication. This is an
appropriate type for ebooks, as well as traditional paperback or
hardback books. Do not use this type to represent magazines
books.author This object type represents a single author of a
book.
books.book This object type represents a book or publication. This
is an appropriate type for ebooks, as well as traditional paperback or
hardback books
books.genre This object type represents the genre of a book or
publication.
books.quotes
Returns no data as of April 4, 2018. An action representing someone quoting from a book.
books.rates
Returns no data as of April 4, 2018. An action representing someone rating a book.
books.reads
Returns no data as of April 4, 2018. An action representing someone reading a book.
books.wants_to_read
Returns no data as of April 4, 2018. An action representing someone wanting to read a book.
business.business This object type represents a place of business
that has a location, operating hours and contact information.
fitness.bikes
Returns no data as of April 4, 2018. An action representing someone cycling a course.
fitness.course This object type represents the user's activity
contributing to a particular run, walk, or bike course.
fitness.runs
Returns no data as of April 4, 2018. An action representing someone running a course.
fitness.walks
Returns no data as of April 4, 2018. An action representing someone walking a course.
game.achievement This object type represents a specific
achievement in a game. An app must be in the 'Games' category in App
Dashboard to be able to use this object type. Every achievement has a
game:points value associate with it. This is not related to the
points the user has scored in the game, but is a way for the app to
indicate the relative importance and scarcity of different
achievements: * Each game gets a total of 1,000 points to distribute
across its achievements * Each game gets a maximum of 1,000
achievements * Achievements which are scarcer and have higher point
values will receive more distribution in Facebook's social channels.
For example, achievements which have point values of less than 10 will
get almost no distribution. Apps should aim for between 50-100
achievements consisting of a mix of 50 (difficult), 25 (medium), and
10 (easy) point value achievements Read more on how to use
achievements in this guide.
games.achieves An action representing someone reaching a game
achievement.
games.celebrate An action representing someone celebrating a
victory in a game.
games.plays An action representing someone playing a game. Stories
for this action will only appear in the activity log.
games.saves An action representing someone saving a game.
music.album This object type represents a music album; in other
words, an ordered collection of songs from an artist or a collection
of artists. An album can comprise multiple discs.
music.listens
Returns no data as of April 4, 2018. An action representing someone listening to a song, album, radio station,
playlist or musician
music.playlist This object type represents a music playlist, an
ordered collection of songs from a collection of artists.
music.playlists
Returns no data as of April 4, 2018. An action representing someone creating a playlist.
music.radio_station This object type represents a 'radio' station
of a stream of audio. The audio properties should be used to identify
the location of the stream itself.
music.song This object type represents a single song.
news.publishes An action representing someone publishing a news
article.
news.reads
Returns no data as of April 4, 2018. An action representing someone reading a news article.
og.follows An action representing someone following a Facebook
user
og.likes An action representing someone liking any object.
pages.saves An action representing someone saving a place.
place This object type represents a place - such as a venue, a
business, a landmark, or any other location which can be identified by
longitude and latitude.
product This object type represents a product. This includes both
virtual and physical products, but it typically represents items that
are available in an online store.
product.group This object type represents a group of product
items.
product.item This object type represents a product item.
profile This object type represents a person. While appropriate
for celebrities, artists, or musicians, this object type can be used
for the profile of any individual. The fb:profile_id field
associates the object with a Facebook user.
restaurant.menu This object type represents a restaurant's menu. A
restaurant can have multiple menus, and each menu has multiple
sections.
restaurant.menu_item This object type represents a single item on
a restaurant's menu. Every item belongs within a menu section.
restaurant.menu_section This object type represents a section in a
restaurant's menu. A section contains multiple menu items.
restaurant.restaurant This object type represents a restaurant at
a specific location.
restaurant.visited An action representing someone visiting a
restaurant.
restaurant.wants_to_visit An action representing someone wanting
to visit a restaurant
sellers.rates An action representing a commerce seller has been
given a rating.
video.episode This object type represents an episode of a TV show
and contains references to the actors and other professionals involved
in its production. An episode is defined by us as a full-length
episode that is part of a series. This type must reference the series
this it is part of.
video.movie This object type represents a movie, and contains
references to the actors and other professionals involved in its
production. A movie is defined by us as a full-length feature or short
film. Do not use this type to represent movie trailers, movie clips,
user-generated video content, etc.
video.other This object type represents a generic video, and
contains references to the actors and other professionals involved in
its production. For specific types of video content, use the
video.movie or video.tv_show object types. This type is for any
other type of video content not represented elsewhere (eg. trailers,
music videos, clips, news segments etc.)
video.rates
Returns no data as of April 4, 2018. An action representing someone rating a movie, TV show, episode or another piece
of video content.
video.tv_show This object type represents a TV show, and contains
references to the actors and other professionals involved in its
production. For individual episodes of a series, use the
video.episode object type. A TV show is defined by us as a series or
set of episodes that are produced under the same title (eg. a
television or online series)
video.wants_to_watch
Returns no data as of April 4, 2018. An action representing someone wanting to watch video content.
video.watches
Returns no data as of April 4, 2018. An action representing someone watching video content.

Answer 3

I know this is an old one but it comes up top of Google and all the links provided now seem out of date.
This is the latest list of types Facebook accepts for 2022:
https://ogp.me/#types
If you don't use one of these then the type will default to 'website' which is best used for home pages/summarizing a web site.
It looks like the place attribute is no longer supported and the old Facebook page has gone.

Answer 4

This started happening to my site after I enabled namespace and custom Open Graph actions and objects. Once you enable it, you lose support for standard object types such as bar, or in my case article. (or it's possible Facebook may have deprecated certain types, I'm not 100% sure) When no supported type is specified, Facebook defaults to website.
To fix this what you need to do is go into your app dashboard, select your app, then go to the Open Graph section. Under "Object Types", define your own types, such as "bar."
Next you will have to change your meta tags to look like this:
<meta property="og:type" content="your_namespace:your_object_type" />
If you click on "Get Code" next to the object type in the dashboard, Facebook will provide you with an example of meta tags to use.

Answer 5

I have moved into the world of namespace specific open graph data and therefore dont rely on the FB types. See "edit open graph" in the apps dev tool dashboard.

Answer 6

Make sure your article:author data is a Facebook author URL. Unfortunately, that conflicts with what Pinterest is expecting. It's the best thing about standards, there are so many ways to implement them!
<meta property="article:author" content="https://www.facebook.com/mpatnode76">
But Pinterest wants to see something like this:
<meta property="article:author" content="Mike Patnode">
We ended up swapping the formats depending upon the user agent. Hopefully, that doesn't screw up your page cache. That fixed it for us.
Full disclosure. Found this here: https://surniaulula.com/2014/03/01/pinterest-articleauthor-incompatible-with-open-graph/