Currently when I add a Facebook Like button to my site it works correctly but it uses the domain of my site as what is being "liked". So on Facebook it appears like:
xxxxxx likes http://localhost:3000/ on localhost.
I would like to be able to change the content of what's being liked, but I couldn't find any clues in the documentation. :-/
Anyone have any ideas on this?
Thanks for looking.
When an user click the like button, Facebook visits the corresponding page to extract its title. If the page is unavailable (for instance, because it's on your localhost and thus unreachable from the Facebook servers) it uses the address instead. Everything will be fine once you publish your website on the internet.
You can set your Canvas URL to point to your localhost:81.
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My app's domain is thehub.j.layershift.co.uk
In the "App Domains' box, I'm attempting to put: thehub.j.layershift.co.uk
I also have selected Website with Facebook Login and in the Site URL box, I'm trying to put: http://thehub.j.layershift.co.uk/login
Everything works fine with "localhost:8080", while I was testing. What are these domains invalid?
EDIT:
Tried again, still not working. Surely this can't be this difficult???
EDIT AGAIN:
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/rGkrZn4.png?1
FINAL EDIT:
Turns out this was an issue was Facebook. After speaking with a support dude over there, he fixed it in about .5seconds. Thanks for the help!
Try the following (worked for me):
In the app domain put layershift.co.uk
In the app URL put http://thehub.j.layershift.co.uk
thehub.j.layershift.co.uk is not a domain - it is a URL. You should try placing only the domain in the domain field.
That would be -
layershift.co.uk
The other parts of the URL (thehub.j) are subdomains of layershift.co.uk.
One more thing that you might want to take a look at is the fact that the URL http://layershift.co.uk is actually being redirected to http://layershift.com. Facebook is not able to retrieve data from that URL while it is being redirected.
With regard to the Site URL, what you'll want to put there is the landing page of your site/application. When you set the Site URL to /login, anyone reaching your application (logged in or not) will be directed to the /login page.
I'm trying to use the facebooke like-box for a FB Group I'm creating a website for. I'm getting the error below. Where is the mistake coming from ? Thanks
https://www.facebook.com/groups/tapmichiana/
Could not retrieve the specified page. Please verify correct href was passed in.
Although Facebook encourages all it’s users to use “safe browsing” and therefor HTTPS when accessing the platform … the like button itself seems to be a little behind on that issue.
Try pointing your like button to http://www.facebook.com/groups/tapmichiana/ instead, the non-SSL version of your group’s page on Facebook – then it should work.
graph.facebook.com/cocacola will tell you that the id for the cocacola page is 40796308305.
You can get to the cocacola page using either www.facebook.com/cocacola or www.facebook.com/40796308305.
However, to get to the mobile facebook site m.facebook.com/cocacola works, m.facebook.com/40796308305 doesn't.
For reasons I won't go into I have the pageID, not the vanity url and I need to link to the mobile site.
Specifically, I'd like to link to the equivalent of m.facebook.com/cocacola?v=feed to link to the wall instead of info.
So, I either need a way to link to a mobile page using the page id or a way to make the regular www link redirect to the mobile wall instead of the info page.
You may need to create (or discover the already created) proper "name" ID and use that together with the pageID as your landing page, for example, mine works as follows:
http://m.facebook.com/pages/BCmoney-MobileTV/190267987672979
But using just my pageID it does not:
http://m.facebook.com/pages/190267987672979
In addition, you could use the Graph API to deduce the "vanity URL" as you refer to it:
http://graph.facebook.com/40796308305
Looks like this is the page you're looking for:
http://m.facebook.com/pages/Coca-Cola/40796308305
The simplest way I found to get the mobile version of any Facebook page is to go the desktop version of the page on your browser of choice and then replace the www with m and press Enter. The Facebook Mobile Web version of the page loads in your browser.
I had the same problem with a link on a website, but I don't want everyone to go to the mobile site, just those on mobile devices.
The solution was to add ?v=wall to it. It works for both desktop and mobile now. Here is what my link looks like now: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Virginia-B-Andes-Volunteer-Community-Clinic/153180528039538?v=wall
I want a Like button on my web site that Likes my Facebook profile (rather than my web page), so that when a user clicks it they subscribe to my Facebook posts.
I've created the Like button using the tool at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Further down that page there is an FAQ entry:
Can I link the Like button to my Facebook page?
Yes. Simply specify the URL of your Facebook page in the href
parameter of the button.
So, I've edited the href parameter to point to my Facebook page. eg:
https://www.facebook.com/myfacebookid
When a user clicks the Like button it has the desired effect. The user ends up having Liked my Facebook page. This is easily verified by the user going to my Facebook profile and checking that the Like button has changed to Liked.
But. When the user clicks the Like button, and entry appears in their News Feed with a generic Facebook description. ie:
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and
others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to
keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links
and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
I don't want a generic post about Facebook to appear. I want the description to relate to my Facebook account and/or web site.
Normally, I could modify this behavior with the Opengraph og: description tag, but as the page in the href is a Facebook page and not my own, I can't control the Opengraph tags.
I'm pretty sure that this was working okay before I enabled timeline for my account, so maybe this is a timeline bug?
So, how do I add a Like button which a) Likes my Facebook profile rather than one of my own web pages, and b) Posts a description of my Facebook profile rather than give a generic Facbook description?
Are all your fields in the info part of your page filled in, and/or completed? I just tested your theory and it seemed to work as expected, only thing is I know all fields in "info" are filled it. Give that a try.
This may happen if you have filled invalid/incomplete/wrong og tags in past and later changed them. Facebook's cache creates problem sometime.
Try putting all the entries (i.e. all og tags) and then debug them here http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug. This debugger gives a detailed info about the url with og tags and also clears the cache for you.
This should solve the problem.
You have 3 important fields that used on page opengraph: Name,Description,Profile Image.
They are used when some one post your link on Facebook, or Google or some else web service that handle opengraph.
Actually, the suggested answers currently do not work and there is an open bug / ticket on Facebook for it. Up to now, there's no fix.
The problem is that you can not use simply https://www.facebook.com/myfacebookid. You should copy and paste the exact page URL. If you have a low number of likes it would look something like https://www.facebook.com/pages/[YourPageName]/[Your page Id]/, and this is the URL that you should use at this point.
If it does not work, try also https://www.facebook.com/[YourPageName]/[Your page Id]/.
In short, copy-paste the URL, do not type it manually.
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.