Posting to /PROFILE_ID/links only accepts link and message parameters

Question

According to the documentation the links endpoint takes picture, name, and description as parameters. From https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/ under the Publishing section

Method                  Description                         Arguments

/PROFILE_ID/links   Publish a link on the given profile     link, message, picture, name, caption, description

However when I try these parameters are ignored. Python example below.

res = requests.post("https://graph.facebook.com/me/links", 
                    data = {'access_token':t.auth_payload,
                            'message':'testing',
                            'link':'http://percolate.com',
                            'picture':'http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/facebook_news_feed.png',
                            'caption':'this is a caption', 
                            'description':'this is a description', 
                            'name':'this is a name'})

Which results in:

This is the result

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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The documentation about creating a link for a user only states the following:

You can post a link on the user's behalf by issuing an HTTP POST request to PROFILE_ID/feed with the publish_stream permissions and the following parameters.

Parameter: link and message

The other fields are taken from the metadata of the page URL given in the 'link' param.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered May 02 '12 at 16:34

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Look under Publishing here https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/ Method Description Arguments /PROFILE_ID/links Publish a link on the given profile link, message, picture, name, caption, description – Doug Tabuchi May 02 '12 at 20:01
Also I must use the /links endpoint because I need the share functionality and want the via as part of the data up top instead of down below. – Doug Tabuchi May 02 '12 at 20:07

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 07 '13 at 20:10

Following up on this issue. The links endpoint becomes more and more useless while the /feed endpoint finally has the features I've needed. /feed used to lose the share action when posting a link. That has since been fixed.

If you have issues with the links endpoint. Switch to /feed and see if it suites your needs.

Posting to /PROFILE_ID/links only accepts link and message parameters

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