When you share a YouTube link on FB it automatically embeds the YT player into your wall.
At first I thought it is an FB effort, but then I noticed this happens with many videos websites (that FB probably never heard of), even from smaller countries.
So my question is, what guidelines must I follow for my video website, in order for FB to detect my player and automatically embed it in ones wall after sharing a link to that video?
Keep in mind I'm not talking about using the API. I'm talking about a user sharing a link to the page that contains that video.
See the Attaching Audio and Video Data section of Facebook's OpenGraph Protocol, for example:
<html xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#">
<head>
...
[REQUIRED TAGS]
<meta property="og:video" content="http://example.com/awesome.flv" />
<meta property="og:video:height" content="640" />
<meta property="og:video:width" content="385" />
<meta property="og:video:type" content="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
...
</head>
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UPDATE: It turns out the page shouldn't have both the "og:video" and "og:video:url" tags. I removed one of them and everything worked as it should.
Problem Statement
I have a page with OpenGraph tags to allow play a video in the Facebook News feed. Sharing the URL to Facebook appears to work, but the video does not properly play.
OpenGraph Tags
<meta property="og:title" content="Jamie McMurray Ready to Defend Rolex 24 Title">
<meta property="og:url" content="http://media.weei.com/theme/9084/a/112508981/jamie-mcmurray-ready-to-defend-rolex-24-title.htm">
<meta property="og:image" content="http://media.weei.com/hosting/media/weei/1640379/mrn-autoracingpodcast-300x300.png">
<meta property="og:site_name" content="WEEI">
<meta property="og:description" content="He and his Chip Ganassi teammates are back together one year removed from winning a watch in the Rolex 24.">
<meta property="og:video" content="https://dih1l34ei3029.cloudfront.net/56275703/audiogram.mp4">
<meta property="og:video:url" content="https://dih1l34ei3029.cloudfront.net/56275703/audiogram.mp4">
<meta property="og:video:secure_url" content="https://dih1l34ei3029.cloudfront.net/56275703/audiogram.mp4">
<meta property="og:video:type" content="video/mp4">
<meta property="og:video:width" content="300">
<meta property="og:video:height" content="300">
According to the Facebook Debugger, FB is picking up the necessary tags.
Outcome
When I attempt to embed the page in Facebook, it looks like it's trying to play the video.
But when I click the Play icon, it doesn't work.
I haven't been able to find any guidance online as to why these videos aren't playing. I've double checked the tags, inspected the video codecs... everything looks like it should be working.
But it's not.
Any guidance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
It turns out the page shouldn't have both the "og:video" and "og:video:url" tags. I removed one of them and everything worked as it should.
I want to embed my flash video player on facebook so that when people share my videos on facebook, it will let them play the video on Facebook.
I saw some posts here on stackoverflow about this topic and that a whitelisting wouldn't be required anymore, but i can't find any informations about it beyond December 2013.
Is it still possible? If yes, does it require a whitelisting?
You want your SWF file in a Facebook post like this: Example?
note: Facebook will only display SWF files that are hosted from an HTTPS server. If you can do that part then read on..
1) You need to have an HTML page on your site that is then posted as a link on your Facebook status. It's from the meta tags contained in that linked page that Facebook will read and load the SWF data.
2) Put the meta tags somewhere within the < head > .... < / head > section of your page's HTML.
(note: To make the above example work I had used old style embedding back then but you can try the newer OG tags. Good Reference). Below is an example for your own html (SWF goes in "video_src")
< head >
<meta name="title" content="My Video SWF inside FBook" />
<meta name="description" content="Just a test for embedding SWF in a status" />
<meta name="medium" content="video" />
<link rel="image_src" href="https://website.com/files/test_Thumbnail.jpg"/>
<link rel="video_src" href="https://website.com/files/test_VideoPlayer.swf"/>
<meta name="video_width" content="504" />
<meta name="video_height" content="283" />
<meta name="video_type" content="application/x-shockwave-flash"/>
< /head >
3) Currently the maximum Width is 504 and Height is 283. Check this page for updates whenever Facebook changes its mind about those settings.
You can check how Facebook will "parse" your html link using their Debugger Tool. Just paste your html page link as you would in a wall post and it will show a live preview.
UPDATE: For HTML5 Video (note: I havent tried this part myself but just my understanding..)
Assuming you've gone with OG: tags then you can just put multiple OG:Video links (first one should be Flash followed by fallback to HTML5 which should be the direct link to video file).
I cant confirm this now but.. Don't be surprised if the HTML5 video file is played by a system player (in a pop-up window?) and not with your own custom-design JS/CSS interface.
<meta property="og:video" content="https://website.com/files/test_VideoPlayer.swf" />
<meta property="og:video:secure_url" content="https://server.com/files/test_VideoPlayer.swf" />
<meta property="og:video:type" content="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
followed by... (for non-Flash)
<meta property="og:video" content="http://website.com/files/Video.mp4" />
<meta property="og:video:secure_url" content="https://server.com/files/Video.mp4" />
<meta property="og:video:type" content="video/mp4" />
<meta property="og:video:width" content="500" />
<meta property="og:video:height" content="280" />
Am facing issue with sharing videos on facebook wall. Actually the video is sharing on FB wall but the video is not playing inline.
This is the shared page meta details,
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Staging Derbywire">
<meta property="og:url" content="http://staging.derbywire.com/video/ticker/102">
<meta property="og:title" content="Derbywire mobile market place">
<meta property="og:type" content="video">
<meta property="og:image" content="http://s3.amazonaws.com/derbywire_development/system/attachments/96/original/open-uri20130822-8464-10q2etf?1377170817">
<meta property="og:description" content="Derbywire is a collective space where creatives can sell buy digital content">
<meta property="og:video" content="http://staging.derbywire.com/video/player">
<meta property="og:video:type" content="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<meta property="og:video:width" content="480">
This is the link for that page http://staging.derbywire.com/video/ticker/102
While validating this page using the following link
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fstaging.derbywire.com%2Fvideo%2Fticker%2F102
Its not giving any errors, But its not playing the video.
I gave the source video URL as http://staging.derbywire.com/video/player
This page has the video player
All the configurations are i did correctly. But the video is not playing. But i changed the source as YOUTUBE link then it was working.
Can any one help me out from this issue.
<meta property="og:video" content="http://staging.derbywire.com/video/player" />
<meta property="og:video:type" content="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
You have to give the URL of the actual SWF file that plays the video here – the address you have given (http://staging.derbywire.com/video/player) however delivers a full HTML document. Facebook is not so silly to just embed full HTML documents into their page.
So change that property to the address of a stand-alone SWF file that will play the actual video.
I Found the solution for playing shared Video/Audio in Facebook wall.
For Videos i gave the meta tag like this
<meta property="og:video" content="https://d12zt1n3pd4xhr.cloudfront.net/fp/swf/flowplayer-3.2.16.swf?config={'splash': true, 'clip':{'url': '<%= url %>'},'plugins': {'controls':{'url':'https://d12zt1n3pd4xhr.cloudfront.net/fp/swf/flowplayer.controls-3.2.15.swf','bottom': 20}}}">
For Audio i gave the meta tag like this
<meta property="og:video" content="https://d12zt1n3pd4xhr.cloudfront.net/fp/swf/flowplayer-3.2.16.swf?config={'clip':{'url': '<%= url %>', 'provider': 'audio'},'plugins': {'audio': {'url': 'https://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer.audio.swf'},'controls':{'url':'https://d12zt1n3pd4xhr.cloudfront.net/fp/swf/flowplayer.controls-3.2.15.swf', 'backgroundColor':'#002200', 'fullscreen': false, 'height': 50, 'autoHide': false}}}">
If you gave the proper meta tags in your link page facebook automatically play the video/audio.
For HTTPS users, you have to give HTTPS SWF configuration. Otherwise the file wont play inline.
When a user clicks the facebook like button on my site, a post hits their wall. I'd like that post to have a video embedded in it from youtube. Is this possible?
Right now I'm using the following code:
<meta content="http://www.youtube.com/embed/G5T76rIgXPQ" property="og:video" />
<meta content="560" property="og:video:height" />
<meta content="349" property="og:video:width" />
<meta content="application/x-shockwave-flash" property="og:video:type" />
A Like button alone won't do that for you. You'll have to programmatically post the video via FB API. For examples and docs:
Programatically add and youtube video to wall post
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/#publishing
I'm trying to set up a page which can be properly scraped by Facebook when it's shared/liked. The page will have a YouTube video associated with it, so in the content attribute of the og:video tag, should I put the YouTube video embed link or the actual youtube page link for it to appear on Facebook with the little "Preview" button that plays the video in Facebook?
Hope someone can help! Thanks!
You have two options. You can either set the og:video to https://www.youtube.com/v/YOUTUBECODE or set the og:url to the YouTube page.
In my examples, I'm embedding this video https://www.youtube.com/v/BQBjVr1iHH4 in the following page https://www.keithandthegirl.com/vip/bonus/episode/9/40/this-is-40. I would like Facebook to show the YouTube video whenever anyone shares my page on Facebook.
Option 1: setting the og:video to https://www.youtube.com/v/YOUTUBECODE
The meta tag will look like
<meta property='og:video' content='https://www.youtube.com/v/BQBjVr1iHH4' />
Notice the structure of the YouTube URL is different than the typical URL. You will need to isolate the "v" query from the YouTube link and use it in the og:video link format I showed above. In my example, the value of v is BQBjVr1iHH4.
Option 2: setting the og:url to the YouTube page.
If you don't have the ability to isolate the v code, you can set the og:url tag to the YouTube page. In my example, it would look like this:
<meta property='og:url' content='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQBjVr1iHH4' />
This will tell Facebook to get the Open Graph tags from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQBjVr1iHH4 and use that in the embed. That means the description and title will come from the YouTube page. However, if someone clicks the link, they'll go to your website.
In my example, if someone pastes the following link while I use the second option https://www.keithandthegirl.com/vip/bonus/episode/9/40/this-is-40 Facebook will see the URL is set to YouTube and query that YouTube link for the OG info. Everything will look like YouTube except the link will click to https://www.keithandthegirl.com/vip/bonus/episode/9/40/this-is-40
One other note: make sure to use https, not http. Facebook will not embed any non-secure video on the site.
Here's what I found:
Using Facebook's Open Graph Protocol, Publisher can now use any video from any URL, as long as the URL has correctly formatted metadata in the <head> of its HTML. Here's the list of information that should be in the <head>:
Thumbnail image's URL:
<meta property="og:image" content="image_src URL">
Video file URL (e.g. SWF, MP4, ..):
<meta property="og:video" content="video_src URL">
Your page's URL:
<meta property="og:url" content="URL">
Title:
<meta property="og:title" content="title">
Description:
<meta property="og:description" content="description">
Video pixel width:
<meta property="og:video:width" content="video_width">
Video pixel height:
<meta property="og:video:height" content="video_height">
Content Type:
<meta property="og:type" content="video">
You can see from the source code of a YouTube page, the og:video tag is in the following format
<meta property="og:video" content="http://www.youtube.com/v/k86xpd26M2g">
You can also see an example of the metadata used from YouTube simplified in the source code of the following URL: http://fb.stevelarsen.co.uk/example.html
You can read more about the Open Graph protocol here: http://ogp.me/
<html xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#">
<head>
<!-- ... -->
<!-- [REQUIRED TAGS] -->
<meta property="og:video" content="http://example.com/awesome.flv" />
<meta property="og:video:height" content="640" />
<meta property="og:video:width" content="385" />
<meta property="og:video:type" content="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
...
</head>
The link of the .flv file.... check out https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/#types
For those who stumbled at the debugger provided by facebook please note the following:
When you are logged into the debugger you are under https session. In order to see your video in the debugging you need to add the secure url for video in meta. Adding youtube videos is easy, simply put the page url in og:url and it will work.
Spent and hour to come to this conclusion. Its too late I am too tired, wanna sleep now :)
I figured it out. I had a look at how Collegehumor.com does it and they include a bunch of stuff not mentioned in the Facebook API. Rather than just the following:
<meta name="og:video" content="whatever"></meta>
<meta name="video_style" content="whatever"></meta>
<meta name="video_height" content="whatever"></meta>
<meta name="video_width" content="whatever"></meta>
you also need link rel="video_src" and it helps to have videothumbnail and og:image too - I'm not entirely sure which one did it but there you go. That works :)