I am working on an Angular Web Application,
I am trying to share my content on facebook
When I am trying to share facebook popup opens and I am getting
message href should represent a valid URL
I want to share content like
'Use Referral code xyzUvK to join the newest fantasy sports
platform http://example.com . Earn extra points along with lots of
exciting prizes. Don’t delay, join the match today! url',
code
html
<img src="assets/imgs/fb.svg"/>
ts
fb(e) {
let url = 'www.google.com';
e.preventDefault();
var facebookWindow = window.open(
'https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u='+ 'Use Referral code ->' + this.userData.referCode + ' to join the newest fantasy sports platform' + url + '. Earn extra points along with lots of exciting prizes. Don’t delay, join the match today! url',
'facebook-popup',
'height=350,width=600'
);
if (facebookWindow.focus) {
facebookWindow.focus();
}
return false;
}
Please add meta tags in your index.html file
Markup Example
For example, here's how to mark up an article, news story or blog post with og:type="article" and several additional properties:
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/arts/international/when-great-minds-dont-think-alike.html" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:title" content="When Great Minds Don’t Think Alike" />
<meta property="og:description" content="How much does culture influence creative thinking?" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/02/19/arts/international/19iht-btnumbers19A/19iht-btnumbers19A-facebookJumbo-v2.jpg" />
Facebook only allows you to share URLs, not prefilled text like twitter. So your u parameter has to be a URL.
https://developers.facebook.com/policy#control
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I am working on a simple Facebook quiz application to learn React and NextJs.
The issue I am facing is with Facebook tags, when I share the user results It shows the quiz question page meta tags Because Facebook crawler renders the html before I add the new meta tags(The meta tags with answers base on user's provided data). How can I add the new description to the meta tags. Because the description is only available after the user click find my results button.
I am using react-share and NextJs Head to add meta tags
So, if the ShareResult variable has data load the results page otherwise load the question page
{ShareResult ? (
<QuizResult response={ShareResult} />
) : (
<CurrentQuiz id={props.query.playquiz} />
)}
Inside CurrentQuiz I load the Quiz to play and inside QuizResult I show the Results.
QuizResult page has all meta tags using next/head from NextJs
<Head>
<title>Your Results</title>
<meta property="og:url" content="http://testurl.com" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta
property="og:title"
content="When Great Minds Don’t Think Alike"
/>
<meta
property="og:description"
content="How much does culture influence creative thinking?"
/>
<meta
property="og:image"
content="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/02/19/arts/international/19iht-btnumbers19A/19iht-btnumbers19A-facebookJumbo-v2.jpg"
/>
</Head>
But this head is not generated from Server Side Because each user answer will depend on users data.
How can I add this Head so the Facebook crawler can read it?
Its my second day learning Server side rendering.
So after searching and trying many things i redirected the user to a new page using
Router.push({
pathname: "/result/quizshare",
query: {
name: ShareResult.name,
imageurl: url,
quizid: props.query.playquiz,
},
On the next page i get the props from server side rendering
export const getServerSideProps = async ({ query }) => {
return { props: { query } };
};
export default QuizShare;
Also added meta tags With NextSeo
This post is just to learn something, Recently I came across a domain called as www.content-queen.me/PtWkz in a page from facebook.com, on clicking the post with this link it redirected me another domain http://www.wittyfeed.com/story/18644/when-9-cops-sat-down-at-red-robin-the-waitress-realized-something-is-terribly-wrong?utm_source=undefined&utm_medium=SOCIAL&utm_campaign=33-campaign&utm_hash=PtWkz&i=2...Initially I dint see it, but the next time I did with another url, the same thing happened..so my question is how to do it, I know how create a redirect, as it can be done in .htaccess, but this kind of redirect is very new and interesting, And I even tried to dissect the code and found this source code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>When 9 Cops Sat Down At Red Robin, The Waitress Realized Something Is Terribly Wrong</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:title" content="When 9 Cops Sat Down At Red Robin, The Waitress Realized Something Is Terribly Wrong" />
<meta property="og:description" content="You never know when any deed done by you can make anyone's day. Hence, being on the good side of the threshold is always preferable. Jessica Dunbar definitely understands the effect good actions have and she is definitely doing everything the right way. Especially, when it is about men in uniform. When she notices a group of cops sitting in her section, this happens." />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.content-queen.me/PtWkz" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://cdn.wf-media.com/18644/pvoaelaw7buvswooe47x.jpeg" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="www.content-queen.me" />
<meta property="article:section" content="Pictures" />
<a href="https://www.viral9.com/tr_hs_vs/PtWkz" id='myLink'></a>
<style type="text/css">
#myLink {
display: none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="output">
</div>
</body>
</html>
<script type="text/javascript">
// view_count_update();
function view_count_update()
{
var jUTM = "utm_source=SOURCE&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=CAMPAIGN&utm_hash=HASH";
var redirect_url = "http://www.wittyfeed.com/story/18644/when-9-cops-sat-down-at-red-robin-the-waitress-realized-something-is-terribly-wrong?utm_source=SOURCE&utm_medium=SOCIAL&utm_campaign=33-campaign&utm_hash=PtWkz&i=2";
redirect_url = redirect_url.replace("SOURCE", document.referrer.split('/')[2]);
window.location = redirect_url;
}
function myFunc(){
}
//hello
</script>
<script>
try{
(function(){
var d = {
'user_id' : "33",
'url_id' : "2609257" ,
'advertiser_id' : "1",
'user_agent' : navigator.userAgent,
'campaign_id' : "18362" ,
}
$.ajax({
url: "http://www.asapoo.com/mysql_testing",
type:'GET',
data: d,
success : function(data) {view_count_update();},
error : function(){ view_count_update();},
complete: function() {view_count_update();},
timeout : 2000
});
})();
}catch(e){ view_count_update(); }
</script>
<script src="//c.fqtag.com/tag/implement-r.js?org=T6tuwESp3TrUwruYu4eZ&p=NOTSET&a=33&cmp=PtWkz&rt=display&sl=1&fmt=banner&ctu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wittyfeed.com%2Fstory%2F18644%2Fwhen-9-cops-sat-down-at-red-robin-the-waitress-realized-something-is-terribly-wrong%3Futm_source%3DSOURCE%26utm_medium%3DSOCIAL%26utm_campaign%3D33-campaign%26utm_hash%3DPtWkz%26i%3D2&fq=1"></script>
I hope there will be guys who would have done this here and would like to learn how to do it.
That code is pretty much it, really. The redirects are coming from a site set up just for that. It most likely has a database driving it, mapping those random strings of letters to sites. Then it had a template for the page you posted here where it fills in values from the database.
You can see in the code where it updates a page view counter. Then, right after that it sets window.location to where they want you to go, which makes the browser load the page.
This is called a url shortener, you need a back-end script to do the redirect.
The application works as follows, when a request for www.content-queen.me/PtWkz, it will analyze the url. and take the random string PtWkz as a key, this key is connected to the orginal url and the relation stored somewhere in database or cache memory.
What the script do is to match the short string to the orginal url and send to our browser http redirect 302.
There are some feathers to the shortener like you can change the destination the original url with keep sharing the short url.
The back-end script can be written in all programing languages and scripts, you may use python or php for it.
There are many online url shortener services like goo.gl and bitly.com.
My script:
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>
Meta tags
<html class="no-js" lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<meta name="description" content="..
all over Malaysia. Visit us now for Home Tuition and More!"/>
<meta name="keywords" content="content goes here"/>
<title>Tutor Registration: Gloopal- Home tuition and More!</title>
<meta property="og:title" content="Malaysia's Best Private Tutoring Website" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://[sample.com]/img/fb.png" />
<meta property="og:image:secure_url" content="https://[sample.com]/img/fb.png" />
<meta property="og:image:type" content="image/jpeg" />
<meta property="og:image:width" content="400" />
<meta property="og:image:height" content="300" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Visit [sample.com] today for the most reliable, brilliant and honest tutors from all over Malaysia! We've got you covered, for the widest ever range of subjects. We charge ZERO fees/commission for students and tutors, for all tutoring arrangements- we're one of a kind indeed!" />
<!--open graphs ends-->
jquery appended html
<div class='fb-share-button' data-href='https://gloopal.com/index.php' data-layout='button'></div>
When I tried the above on [https://sample.com] it worked fine after few round of refresh on the browser.
Next I tried to share more specific posts instead of the whole website in general. So refered to a page with ID on each share button.However it simply ignored it and just showing the general website. I don't understand why I didn't get the specific page with ID and show contents of that page.
<div class='fb-share-button' data-href='https://gloopal.com/search2.php?TID="+ tid +"' data-layout='button'></div>
Now, I tried sharing back the website in general as I've created a subdomain for revamp work. In this domain the basic sharing of the button not showing the images and descriptions attached to it, let alone sharing by ID.
When I debugged in facebook debug, it shows this error:
Error parsing input URL, no data was cached, or no data was scraped.
Then I read few questions on this learnt few tips:In order to facebook to scrape the content, must set with and height for the image. ALso, facebook doesn't show the image in the first load so must keep refreshing. Facebook also doesn't remove the previously cached content though I change them in my file. SO I need to refrech the facebook debug after placing my URL once or twice.Not just this, I l also learnt that even HTTPS can cause problem, so I even tried replacing it with http and also added secured_url on the image meta tag.
Despite all my attempts, I still can't share image and content in the facebook.If anybody knows where I lack, please also do me a favour by letting me know on how to share posts by ID which means different image,content per ID.
Thanks for your help in advance.
You might just need to re-parse the DOM. Put your button in a container with a 'fb' id, like so:
<div id="fb"><div class='fb-share-button' data-href='https://gloopal.com/search2.php?TID="+ tid +"' data-layout='button'></div></div>
Then try this just after jQuery's append
FB.XFBML.parse(document.getElementById('fb'));
I have created a facebook app with subscription.
When the user opens the app, there is a button called "SUBSCRIBE". When it is clicked, the javascript function completePayment(), is called. The facebook popup with subscribe appears. However, there is a big problem. If I change the og:image URL and set the price to let's say 10.00 USD and the billing period to 1 month and I upload the file to the server and then I click on the SUBSCRIBE button, I can still see the subscription page saying 5.00 USD/week and the image is blank.
It's like everything remained the same way that it was when I first set the data, even though I updated all the data from https://www.mydomain.com/_product.php , with the new values. I even logged out and relogged in, and still no changes are reflected.
I even emptied the _product.php page and uploaded it to the server and the subscription still works and shows 5.00 USD/week and the image is blank.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
I have this code on the main page:
<a href="#" onclick="completePayment()">
<img src="https://www.**********.com/subscribe.png" alt="Subscribe" title="Subscribe" style="vertical-align: top"/>
<script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
FB.init({
appId:'2***********6',
cookie:true,
status:true,
xfbml:true
});
function completePayment(){
var obj = {
method: 'pay',
action: 'create_subscription',
product: 'https://www.mydomain.com/_product.php'
};
FB.ui(obj);
}
</script>
</a>
This is the HTML code from the 'https://www.mydomain.com/_product.php' page:
<html>
<head prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns# fb: http://ogp.me/ns/fb# fbpayment: http://ogp.me/ns/fb/fbpayment#">
<meta property="og:title" content="********* Subscription" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://s-static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/devsite/attachment_blank.png" />
<meta property="og:description" content="****** Subscription" />
<meta property="fbpayment:price" content="5.00 USD" />
<meta property="fbpayment:alternate_price" content="3.49 EUR" />
<meta property="fbpayment:alternate_price" content="3.49 GBP" />
<meta property="fbpayment:trial_duration" content="7 days" />
<meta property="fbpayment:billing_period" content="1 week" />
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="2*************6" />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://www.mydomain.com/_product.php" />
<meta property="og:type" content="fbpayment:subscription" />
</html>
The facebook page have a looong if not semi permanent cache about share content:
3 options are possible:
1) try to clear the page cache on: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
but you will fall in the same problem next time you share the page
2) add a dynamic parameter to your url (https://www.mydomain.com/_product.php?q=123), than you will have a unique value associated with this url, but you need to set the og for this specific url with a php_get on the parameter. If you have few value you can make it manually, on the other hands if you have more value or dynamic value you need a DB table to store the data with the link url and the associated og and get the value in the php_get
3) Clear the cache programatically by re-scraping it. See: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/payments/product?locale=en_GB#scraping-object
I've done somthing similar on my site but only with random generated value: http://www.paris-web.it/test.html
I'm trying to add an AddThis toolbox dynamically. Twitter & email receive some variables from the sharing configuration file, but the Facebook Share gets no info from there.
What am I missing?
HTML:
<span class="toolbox1 addthis_toolbox">
<a class="addthis_button_facebook"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_twitter"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_email"></a>
</span>
JS:
toolbox_obj = $('.toolbox1').get(0);
addthis.toolbox(toolbox_obj,sharing_config,{title: 'aaa'});
You may try this
HTML
<span class="toolbox1 addthis_toolbox"></span>
JS
var tbx = $(".toolbox1").get(0),
svcs = {facebook: 'Facebook', twitter: 'Twitter', linkedin:'Linkedin', email: 'Email'};
$.each(svcs, function(k, v){
$('<a></a>', { class:'addthis_button_'+k }).appendTo(tbx);
});
Working Example Here..
As written on AddThis documentation:
Some services, most notably Facebook and LinkedIn, do not use
parameters we send to them. Rather, they use meta tags to determine
the URL, title, and description to share.
some services (Facebook and Linkedin, for example) just ignore those configurations info because grab data from the Open Graph metatags.
So you should add Open Graph metatags to your HTML (try reading this useful resource) and, if you encounter some problem with AJAX loaded content, maybe you can solve by forcing the url via the specific addthis method (obviously after the new content has been loaded):
addthis.update('share', 'url', window.location.href); // re-parse the url
addthis.ready(); // re-render the buttons.
Now the Share via Facebook will correctly gain its data from the open Graph metatags in page.
This has been a good resource to solve a similar problem I faced:
AddThis buttons wont update to include fragment (#Hash Tag)
Hope this can help, bye!
<HEAD>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script>
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>
<meta property="og:title" content="Your Title" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:image" content="Your Thumbnail Image Link" />
<meta property="og:url" content="Your URL" />
<meta name="description" content="Your Description" />
<HEAD>
<a name="fb_share" type="button_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a>