Questions tagged [facebook-opengraph]

For programming questions about Facebook's Open Graph API, designed to integrate Web pages representing profiles of real-world things into the social graph

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The Facebook Open Graph allows apps to model user activities based on actions and objects and to become part of the user's identity and social graph. Building an Open Graph app gives you the opportunity to deeply integrate into the core Facebook experience, including Timeline, News Feed, and Ticker.

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Facebook pages API: "Page Public Content Access" review screencast

My website uses Facebook Page API to pull public content from a Facebook page, published by the page owner, to create a dynamic blog with a clear link to the Facebook page. You can see it here in action: https://kc-hrubeho.cz (ctrl+F "Facebook").…
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Meaning of HTML prefix attribute (Open Graph Protocol)?

I'm new to Facebook Open Graph Protocol. I have been trying to figure out what the meaning of the HTML prefix attribute is. The closest post on Stack Overflow I could find dealing with this subject is this post which was very helpful as it deals…
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What is the minimum width and height Of Facebook Open Graph Images?

I had read that images associated with a given URL in the Facebook open graph had to be greater than 50 x 50 However, when we ran the Facebook Object debugger - we got the following warning: "Tiny og:image: All the images referenced by og:image must…
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FB.init has already been called

I am building facebook iframe app. My application is loaded once (I receive signed_request once) and then I navigate through the pages in the iframe using internal domain links. I noticed that I see these strange messages both in Chrome and…
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Generating Facebook Open Graph meta tags dynamically

As the title implies I'm trying to generate Facebook Open Graph meta tags dynamically, but I can't get it working. Is it even possible? UPDATE: Finally I got it working with the help of @saccharine. The following code is working for me:…
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How to successfully implement og:image for the LinkedIn

THE PROBLEM: I am trying, without much success, to implement open graph image on site: http://www.guarenty-group.com/cz/ The homepage is completeply bypassing the og:image tag, where internal pages are reading all images from the site and place…
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og:type and valid values : constantly being parsed as og:type=website

Could someone sugggest why the FB debug/lint tool is saying og:type is "website" despite the og:type being set to og:bar? https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=www.shamrockirishbar.com%2Fpubquiz As a result its not validating the…
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og:image could not be downloaded because it exceeded the maximum allowed sized of 8Mb

Building a website that requires sharing links with an image. Done this I don't know how often...but this time the Facebook Open Graph Debugger says: og:image {image url} could not be downloaded because it exceeded the maximum allowed sized of…
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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 open graph meta tags maximum content length

Does anyone know the maximum valid length for each of Facebook's open graph meta tags? The description of the meta tags on http://ogp.me/ does not list maximum lengths, only general descriptions such as "A one to two sentence description of your…
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What is the correct implementation of the Open Graph "article" type?

I need to add Open Graph tags to a blog page. It seems from reading the spec (http://ogp.me/) using an og:type of article is the way to go. However, I find the spec unclear and I'm unsure how to implement the syntax correctly. Two example websites…
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Facebook multiple og:image tags - Which is Default?

My web site specifies multiple og:image tags, and I'd like to control which one is the default. Does it have something to do with the order in which they're specified? Right now the images are appearing in the link post selector in the order #3, #1,…
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og:url is driving me crazy?

hope you can help me... I want to have a page with facebook metatags, like:
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Why does Facebook Graph API say my account is non-active?

We have some code that uses Facebook Open Graph API to display some posts on our home page. It was originally developed by a previous developer and I rewrote it in ASP.NET MVC for our home page (where before it was PHP which I believe was loaded in…
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Facebook api: (#4) Application request limit reached

Since late November we are hitting the application limit on the Facebook API. We are fetching user's photos, and selected 25 friends photos → this is done when a user signatures in (we are building albums for the users). The above action is limited,…
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