According to Facebook, comments made through the comments social plugin will post to the user's wall. This is working, but comments subsequently made in reply to such a post on Facebook.com (as shown in this FB dev video: http://csull.in/eMMsDF) don't show up on the site with the comments plugin. I have tried everything I can think of, and while using the iFrame feedback method does work, the fb:comments method does not. Any ideas?
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A little while ago, I built this:
http://www.littlebray.co.uk/photos.aspx
It's kind of an off-Facebook partial replica of a Facebook photo album gallery, the photos in the gallery section are all pulled from Facebook albums on the Page for Little Bray (fb.com/littlebray) enlarging them gives you a kinda full screen view of them with commenting facilties on the right margin, just like Facebook.
You'll notice that, whilst this comment section looks a bit like a Facebook plugin, it isn't, and the reason for this is that if I used Facebooks Comments Plugin, when a user comments on a photo on the website, or comments on the same photo (remembering the photos come from the same source), it will create two different streams of comments, one shown on FB and one shown on the website.
With my method, any comments posted either on the website or FB will appear in both places as they're al directly injected into the FB graph relating to the object ID of the photo.
A bit later on, I created another, similar image gallery but used Facebooks Social Plugin "Comments" in the right hand margin to comment on photos. The difference here though was that these photos were lcoally hosted by the website and not already Facebook album objects, so this other website is the only source for these images and thus creating FB objects when commenting via a URL is fine.
BUT... it got me thinking, is my first example just a lot of work, is it possible to use Facebooks own Social Plugin to post comments on an object which already exists on Facebook in that way?
I tried pasting a graph URL https://graph.facebook.com/FB_OBJECT_ID into the Comments example on Facebooks Social Plugins page from a status update of mine, but nothing showed.
Any ideas?
EDIT ---
I have discovered I am not alone in asking this question:
Using social plugins for pre-existing Facebook posts
Load comments from open graph object into Facebook comments social plugin
Neither of those have satisfactory answers though. Perhaps I just need to improve my own code and make my own plugin.
At this time the comments plugin can not be used in that way.
I am building a website that's displaying a couple Facebook photo albums, which I'm retrieving with FQL. I'd also like to add the comments plugin and all existing Facebook comments for each photo.
When I add this:
<div class="fb-comments" data-href="[some facebook photo url]" data-num-posts="4" data-width="300"></div>
it isn't including all the comments already made about this photo on Facebook. Likewise, when I make a comment using my site's comment box, it doesn't show up in Facebook under that photo.
I'm guessing that the comments plugin doesn't have that functionality: To sync my site's comments with Facebook comments when using a Facebook url?
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Comments don't come with the photos by default. You have to get them with graph.facebook.com/PHOTO_ID/comments.
We would like to use the Facebook Comment plugin (or something similar) on a website. The photos are being pulled in from Facebook to our site (built in PHP). We would like to enable commenting on a particular photo and post the comment back to Facebook. Addtionally, if a comment is made on Facebook, we would also like for the comment to display on the webpage.
From the website, we have only been able to get the comment to apply to the webpage, but not to the photo itself. Thus the comment posts on facebook with a link to the webpage, but does not display the individual photo.
Does anyone know how to successfully post comments on a particular photo from a webpage?
Using the Graph API, just do an HTTP POST to https://graph.facebook.com/PHOTOID/comments?access_token=ValidUserAccessToken with the correct parameters specified (such as message) as well as a user access token with the correct permissions specified.
See the comments connection of photo at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/photo/
We are trying to publish to the feed resource of an event using the Graph API. What happens is it seems to ignore any link that we post. It also does not seem the Graph API supports any option for posting a photo to the wall of an event.
We make the call to the event feed using the following parameters:
link='http://rfid-social-media.odinrfid.com/photo?photoId=000000000000000000102107'
name='John at Facebook Party'
message='Test Message 2'
caption='What a great time'
And we publish against the url:
https://graph.facebook.com/EVENT_ID/feed
The request response does go through successfully, but the link does not show up in the UI.
We can post a link to a regular page using the Graph API without issue. It does show in the UI with the link, thumbnail, caption, etc, all as it should.
Thanks..
This is a Bug and its reported and marked as confidential
With the below text and its also contain security hole
bug report link
Below is my bug report text.
Other details on this report are shown to Facebook employees only
I recently attempted to post on an event's wall using the Graph API, but only the message is posted; Everything else is not showing. e.g.
Link
Picture
etc
There is one more big thing that the post doesn't show; That this post is post "via a Facebook app"
Note: posting on a page or user wall worked and also normal messages posted on an event 's wall.
The most important thing is when the post is shown on the event's wall "it does not show that its posted by a Facebook Application".
This is very dangerous; For example I can make an application and post nonsense on a user's wall. People will think that this is posted by the user.
Thank you so much for creating this question
For posting a photo to an event it seems to be a FB bug, subscribe and up the repo count so it gets attention
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/225316074217855?browse=search_4f2f7576c5bc32d87041759
I am looking at replacing the comments on my news site with a facebook comments box. This would mean that every time someone posts a news article people can comment on it. This would require many comment boxes for many urls.
On the front page of my site however, I have a feed to all the comments that are posted all over the page. This makes is useful for people to see the discussion happening around the site.
Is there a way to show all the comments that are being posted on my site in one location if I move to facebook comments?
Essentially it would be a feed of all the comments from the different urls.
For each url you have, you would need to occasionaly pull the comments down using the Facebook Graph Comments API with a URL like: https://graph.facebook.com/comments/?ids=http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments. You would then need to build something to display this. There are no social plugins built for this.