When I link my site on Facebook, it correctly shows the OpenGraph information in the preview for the posting, but when submitted, it gets lost. If I click the 'Like' button at the bottom of the Linter tool for my page however, it displays correctly on my wall.
Page Being Linked: http://horadric.info/news
Linter: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fhoradric.info%2Fnews
I've tried a few guides' suggestions, such as the xmlns additions to my HTML tag, removing admins/app_id, and a few other things.
It used to work before a week ago, and recently it's been failing. I figure it's probably an error on Facebook's end, but I'd like some confirmation.
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So I'll be the first to admit I'm not so great with the whole facebook like button thing.
On my site http://vegasonthemic.com I have facebook "like" buttons for every post (of a custom post type "portfolio") that are automagically generated.
When you click this like button it shows on your facebook profile that you liked something with a thumbnail and the excerpt text.
BUT when you look at your news feed all it says is "Bob liked this artist" and doesn't show any of the metadata. Is there something I'm missing for this function to work?
You can see your problem here: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fvegasonthemic.com%2F
Fix the issues that the linter is showing. Then your website will work fine.
I've been working on this for two days straight now. I'm using Rails 3.1.
My setup is like the one Lopez42 spelled out at the bottom of the page at Facebook I like button not working all the time
Unlike the other posts here, my like buttons appear fine, my comment box pops up and my AJAX calls return success.
The problem:
If I click the Like button and leave the comment blank, everything seems to work fine. The like count is updated (I verified at https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=select+url,total_count,like_count,comment_count,share_count,click_count+from+link_stat+where+url=my_url&format=json)
The post to the wall says "so-and-so Liked a link".
If, however, I enter a comment, the post to Wall says "so-and-so Shared a link" and no counts get updated (as per same test URL from above).
One other thing. I have quite a few Like buttons on the same page, each with their own URL. I've tried using both HTML5 div fb-like and the fbml tag fb:like.
Also, the facebook debug lint page gives good reports on all og tags, etc.
Anyone have any ideas?
TIA, Dan
I'm trying to integrate open graph in my website, so that I can post a link to my relevant facebook page and it will display the relevant information (title, description etc).
Yet, even though it worked for some time, now it only displays my domain name regardless of the link I post. No images, no descs, nothing.
I've created a test page to find out what's wrong, but I've come to a dead end.
The test page is W3C valid, the Facebook debugger is parsing all the information correctly, the preview before I post the link to facebook is correct, but when I hit post it displays nothing, just the url.
I've tried several actions such as different doctypes, commenting out the open graph metas, moving js after the metas, removing the meta content-type to no avail, but if you can help me post the test page correctly to facebook, I think I'll be able to find what's wrong with my site.
My website: http://www.accorda.info
The test page: http://www.accorda.info/test.html
My facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/accorda.info
Replace the meta tag or delete some. I don't understand… Facebook OpenGraph Debug tool show IMBb info for your page.
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.accorda.info%2Ftest.html
Remember, Facebook don't update page info real-time. New meta tags can be visible in 2 days.
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.
I cannot get the Like button to work on one site. http://www.room13canada.ca/test.html
When the button is clicked it fires off to facebook but the callback then undoes the call? I have stripped all code to make sure there is no js or css or whatever breaking the button.
please look at the pagesource - it makes no sense why it doesn't work.
if I change
<fb:like href="www.room13canada.ca"
to
<fb:like href="www.cnn.com"
it works like a charm??
any help would be great
Have you considered trying with the iframe method?
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.room13canada.ca%2Ftest.html&layout=standard&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=80" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
Well, I was also having problems with the facebook like plugins and also heard from people that it is a facebook bug. After searching a lot on gOOgle .... I found a good result and don't think that this is a fb bug.
You will have to add this file into the header of your website:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/rock.jpg" />
Property of Meta Tags (facebook likes Meta Tags) ==> og:image - An image URL which should represent your object within the graph.
Replace "http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/rock.jpg" with real path to image.
For Wordpress Users:
Add the following code in the head of your header file ==>
<?php $img= get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image', true); if ($img): ?>
<meta property="og:image" content="<?=$img ?>"/>
<? endif; ?>
That's all... Hope this will work for you all !! Share your experience ...
First, I'll give my hypothesis: If the Facebook URL Scraper has tried to scrape your page, and was unable to access it (e.g., if it was pending moderation and the Facebook Scraper bot got redirected to a "login" page), Social Plugins like the Like button and Comments won't work because Facebook thinks the URL is "inaccessible." It takes 24 hours for Facebook to try scraping the page again--until then, Facebook will assume it's still inaccessible.
Here's what Facebook says about how often pages are scraped and how to force a scrape:
Facebook scrapes your page every 24 hours to ensure the properties are up to date. The page is also scraped when an admin for the Open Graph page clicks the Like button and when the URL is entered into the Facebook URL Linter. Facebook observes cache headers on your URLs - it will look at "Expires" and "Cache-Control" in order of preference. However, even if you specify a longer time, Facebook will scrape your page every 24 hours.
Note that the Facebook URL Linter has been renamed the Facebook Object Debugger.
I could be wrong about the underlying issue. I'll give you my experiences, and you can decide.
Our site is a collection of blogs, and all blog posts have a "like" button, generated with identical code (except for the URL being liked). By default, all blog posts are saved to a "draft" state, and not available unless you are logged in. If an anonymous user attempts to visit a "draft" blog post, he will be redirected to the login page.
Months ago, we experienced a "Like" button problem, although the error manifested slightly differently: we got "URL inaccessible" when clicking the Like button. This only happened on posts that had "Like" buttons and also were not immediately published (e.g., they were saved to a "Draft" state). I thought this was fixed when I changed the "Draft" view to not display Facebook social plugins.
However, I've noticed that, from time to time, if you click the "Like" button on a particular post, the "Like" flyout flashes on the screen for a moment and then disappears, with no "like" action taking place. Different behavior, same problem: "Like" button doesn't work.
At the same time, the "Like" buttons on every other post worked just fine! I tested this, and then came back to the one post I couldn't "Like". Same behavior: flyout appears and disappears, no "Like" happens.
I used Chrome's developer tools to see what HTTP requests were being made, comparing the request/response for a working "like" to the "like" that wasn't working. The "Like" button JavaScript makes an HTTP POST request to http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like/connect and gets some JavaScript back. As best I could tell, the HTTP POST request was identical between the working and non-working like buttons, but the response was different. Below is the JavaScript response for a working like, followed by the JavaScript response for a like that wasn’t working:
for (;;);{"__ar":1,"payload":null,"jsmods":{"require":[["Plugin","connect",[],["http:\/\/www.hslda.org\/cms\/?q=blog\u00252Fpeeking-through-fence","10151028997762924"]]]}}
for (;;);{"__ar":1,"payload":null,"jsmods":{"require":[["Plugin","disconnect",[],["http:\/\/www.hslda.org\/cms\/?q=blog\u00252Fpoem-just-you"]]]}}
I note two distinctions: the working version “connect” whereas the non-working version has “disconnect”, and the working version has an additional parameter that looks like an ID. I’m guessing it’s the ID of this particular “like” event.
I did some Googling and couldn’t find a definitive answer. Trying to debug this, I used the Facebook Object Debugger. It found some “Like Button Warnings” and “Open Graph Warnings” that are worth fixing, but I don’t think they are the problem—because they were the same for URLs with working like buttons and for the URL with the like button that wasn’t working.
So then I decided to go to the Facebook Social Plugin page for the Like Button. I dropped in the URL of the non-likeable blog post, and tried liking it. It worked. I wondered, “is the like button on the page still broken?” I couldn’t like it because I’d already liked it. So I asked a coworker try and like the post, and it worked for him. I then had my coworker unlike the post, I unliked it (so we were back to no likes), and then I tried liking it again, using the like button on the blog post. It worked.
So, it seems like once I "forced" the page to be scraped again, it started working. But it's also possible that "forcing" a like through the Like button page broke something loose as well... not sure.