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Facebook Share doesn’t show my description or my thumbnail

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–2nd EDIT– Please note that this answer doesn’t work any more and is out of date. Please try the above answer. — ORIGINAL ANSWER– Got it sorted. Had to use a url that is chock full of craziness: <a href=”http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s= 100&amp;pFacebook Share doesn’t show my description or my thumbnail=La Vita È Bella&amp;p[url]=http://www.lavitaebella.co.uk/teachers/resources.html&amp;p[images][0]=http://www.lavitaebella.co.uk/images/imageforfacebook.gif&amp;p[summary]=Drawing on Italy’s most … Read more

Is there an API to force Facebook to scrape a page again?

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Page metadata isn’t the sort of thing that should change very often, but you can manually clear the cache by going to Facebook’s Debug Tool and entering the URL you want to scrape There’s also an API for doing this, which works for any OG object: curl -X POST \ -F “id={object-url OR object-id}” \ … Read more

Want custom title / image / description in facebook share link from a flash app [duplicate]

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2016 Update Use the Sharing Debugger to figure out what your problems are. Make sure you’re following the Facebook Sharing Best Practices. Make sure you’re using the Open Graph Markup correctly. Original Answer I agree with what has already been said here, but per documentation on the Facebook developer site, you might want to use … Read more

Facebook share link without JavaScript

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You could use <a href=”https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=#url” target=”_blank”> Share </a> Currently there is no sharing option without passing current url as a parameter. You can use an indirect way to achieve this. Create a server side page for example: “/sharer.aspx” Link this page whenever you want the share functionality. In the “sharer.aspx” get the refering url, and … Read more

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

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How do I tell Facebook which image to use when my page gets shared? Facebook has a set of open-graph meta tags that it looks at to decide which image to show. The keys one for the Facebook image are: <meta property=”og:image” content=”http://ia.media-imdb.com/rock.jpg”/> <meta property=”og:image:secure_url” content=”https://secure.example.com/ogp.jpg” /> and it should be present inside the <head></head> … Read more

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