Can anyone explain how (or point to sample code) to embed a video into a user's Facebook feed? This would be identical functionality to what the "Share on Facebook" button does on YouTube and Hulu. The video would be hosted on my site, and presumably viewed using a Flash-based video player. I am particularly interested to know how this can be accomplished through the new Facebook Graph API, or if that's not possible, through the old REST API. Thanks!
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I recently saw a Vimeo video on facebook that had a call to action at the end that's set up in the Vimeo admin. So basically facebook is somehow allowing sharing of videos from Vimeo to play on facebook's platform through the Vimeo API,
Does anybody know how they're doing this?
Hard to tell without looking at the Facebook post itself, but there are two possibilities:
If the video is playing in Facebook's native video player, then the page uses Vimeo's Publish to Social feature, which was released last fall: https://vimeo.com/blog/post/publish-videos-to-your-social-channels-instantly
If the video is playing with the Vimeo Player, then the video has a CTA end screen, documented here: https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/115007893267-End-screens.
Note that these features require a Vimeo PRO or Business account.
I have an app which displays an overlay over a chromeless Youtube video (or html5 video with sources from my server) with my own controls and functions. I would like to embed this app into Facebook posts the same way Youtube videos get embedded. Is this possible with the current Graph API, or is this limited only to Youtube?
I'm creating a site which allows the user to watch videos. The videos are hosted on YouTube and embedded into our site. We would the user to be able to share our site on Facebook and have the video play inline on the Facebook wall.
We've gotten this to work using Open Graph tags, but there is one problem: when using Facebook through the iOS app or via iOS Safari, an error message comes up saying the playback is not supported since it requires Adobe Flash. Note that when you share a YouTube.com URL, there is an automatic fallback to HTML5 and the video will play on the wall.
How can I get my video to play on the wall? Or at least, how can I make the video link point to our site instead of triggering the error message?
See here for an example of our site: http://m.gad.dk/at-overleve-med-en-alkoholiker/film/
Thanks.
Have you seen this posts? That might be helpful to you.
iPhone App how to post Youtube video link using facebook graph Api
Posting an embedded video link using the Facebook Graph API
How can I post a video, via Facebook's Connect API, to my Facebook profile page?
I am currently developing a new website / facebook app for an online magic competition. I am hoping most of the functionality can come from Facebook's own services, and would like your feedback on how plausible our goals are.
Essentially there will be two types of users: magicians and voters. Magicians will upload a video of them performing a trick (or select a video they have already uploaded). Voters will vote for their favourite magicians, and be able to post these videos to their wall.
Are these possible:
Video upload to Facebook - I have had a search, but the only method I found uses the depreciated REST API. Is there a newer implementation?
Video download - After a user has uploaded a video are they (or can we) able to download their video from Facebook?
Embedding magicians Facebook videos on the standalone website?
Thank you in advance
You can still upload videos and photos using the graph api. We have done this into galleries for a number of clients.
see here for a picture example (works with other media objects such as videos):
Is it possible to post a status update and adding an image file with facebook graph API?
The problems you may face though are the issues of managing and approving content in the site.
One solution we have found is to combine YouTube API and Facebook to get the best of both worlds. you can now embed a YouTube uploader in your site / app which will post videos into a channel of yours but have an approval app to control what lands. Then add any voting mechanism of your choice to the stream of videos. You can use YouTube likes, Facebook likes or your own. Take a look at this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1zgFlCw8Aw
You can embed a YouTube channel into Facebook easily too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pClpKAnddGI
Also using youtube, you can spread your net farther to reach more of an audience.
Hope this can be of some help. (No, I don't work for YouTube just find using more than one platform better)
I have built an audio sharing application (pretty similar to soundcloud.com, but focused on a niche and just one country). I'd like to enable people to hear the tracks directly from Facebook, like they can do it with eg. Spotify.
I am having a trouble with getting development docs on how to do that.
Cheers,
Pablox
Deep-integration with Facebook (such as Spotify have done) is done via the Open Graph APIs, the beta documentation is covered here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph
If you just want users to be able to embed a player in posts/likes of your content, any app can do this with the use of meta tags on the pages, and this is covered under 'Attaching Audio and Video Data' on the Open Graph documentation