Questions tagged [facebook-sharer]

The Facebook Share button lets people add a personalized message to links before sharing on their timeline, in groups, or to their friends via a Facebook Message

When someone shares content from your website or web app using Facebook channels, it appears on their timeline and in their friends' news feeds. Sharing, therefore, helps people using a website show their friends things that are important to them, and helps developers by increasing awareness of their website, or web app.

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How does Facebook Sharer select Images and other metadata when sharing my URL?

When using Facebook Sharer, Facebook will offer the user the option of using 1 of a few images pulled from the source as a preview for their link. How are these images selected, and how can I ensure that any particular image on my page is always…
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Facebook share link without JavaScript

The following link is for sharing a page on Twitter: http://twitter.com/share Is there a similar option for Facebook that doesn't require JavaScript? I know about http://facebook.com/sharer.php, but that requires a get parameter to be inserted…
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Facebook key hash does not match any stored key hashes

I'm really having troubles with the Facebook hash key. I generated it in my Eclipse.. proof: Then I went to https://developers.facebook.com/ and registered a new app. And finally I've set my hashkey at the settings of Facebook developers: But no…
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Want custom title / image / description in facebook share link from a flash app

Possible Duplicate: How does Facebook Sharer select Images? I am making a flash app that demonstrates potensial traffic injuries when driving at different speeds. I want the user to be able to share this information on facebook. However this…
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Is there an API to force Facebook to scrape a page again?

I'm aware you can force update a page's cache by entering the URL on Facebook's debugger tool while been logged in as admin for that app/page: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug But what I need is a way to automatically call an API endpoint…
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Facebook Share doesn't show my description or my thumbnail

I have followed every single piece of advice I have found to try to get this to work but all of it has been to no avail. Can someone tell me why my description/thumbnail doesn't show up? Thanks. Below is my code and the link to the site: Meta…
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How to pass a parameter like title, summary and image in a Facebook sharer URL

Question: I need to pass my content like title, summary and image in a Facebook sharer URL like this:
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Facebook Share button: is it officially dead?

Since July 17 the old share button stopped working on all the websites I manage. I've read reports by other users that are facing similar issues, but I was not able to find anything official. Do you know if there is any official source available…
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Facebook sharer.php, how to have multiple og:image tags?

Possible Duplicate: How does Facebook Sharer select Images? We are using Facebook's sharer.php service to share pages on our site. Right now this works great, but we are now having difficult trying to find out how to offer users more than one…
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Share on facebook page throwing an error

When I'm sharing on Facebook page, getting following error : (#100) Only owners of the URL have the ability to specify the picture, name, thumbnail or description params. It was working fine 5-10 days ago. When searched I found following on…
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Multiple og:image tags not being displayed by share dialog or update status box

I am currently working a new feature to allow users to select the thumbnail they would like to use when sharing an page on Facebook. The user should be able to use the Facebook widgets like the send dialog or share buttons as well as simply cutting…
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How to implement share via option in android?

I want to implement something like this. It should not be hard coded. If user haven't installed Dropbox there should not be a option to share via Dropbox. Thanks in advance !
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Can't use facebook sharer.php custom parameters in mobile sites

I own a jQuery mobile website. There i using facebook share option with custom parameters to add title, description, image with link Like…
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Facebook share url thumbnail problem

Possible Duplicate: How does Facebook Sharer select Images? Want to have share thumbnail when user shares site url using share button on site which uses http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php to achieve that. Site dose not have img tags, all images…
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Branching the Android Share Intent extras depending on which method they choose to share

Simply want to share a dynamic text string + the URL to the app. The native Android share intent is setup correctly, and works perfect with Twitter, Gmail, etc. But, as many will guess, it does not work with Facebook. Appearantly because Facebook…
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