SHARE_LINK_DIALOG Picture - FB over-rides

Corona Marketplace Facebook v4
#1

I used the SHARE_LINK_DIALOG from the newest sample file.

Via Android app posting, FB posted a different picture from the one I sent it. What FB have (cleverly but frustratingly) done is taken a prominent picture from the page I was linking to, and not the one I was sending. I know the one I was sending was valid, because it worked when I used SHARE_PHOTO_DIALOG.

So, it this a bug in the plugin, or something FB are doing that we can’t control.

Is there any way I can combine SHARE_PHOTO_DIALOG and SHARE_LINK_DIALOG as one action, and I leave out the picture tag in SHARE_LINK_DIALOG?

#2

Facebook is always changing things. The Link dialog is for sharing links and if that link has an open graph card in the page header, that page wants you to use the image they have provided. For instance here is part of the header (the <HEAD> tag) from a local newspaper article:

\<meta property="og:site\_name" content="newsobserver"/\> \<meta property="og:type" content="article"/\> \<meta property="og:title" content="Hurricane Florence forces high school football teams to adjust to short schedule"/\> \<meta property="og:url" content="https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/article218330220.html"/\> \<meta property="og:description" content="Several area schools, including Leesville Road and Garner, had a quick turnaround after playing on Friday because of Hurricane Florence"/\> \<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.newsobserver.com/latest-news/2xb0qb/picture218330955/alternates/LANDSCAPE\_1140/RAL\_%20091218\_GAR\_LEV\_FB\_SW\_1\_2%20(2)"/\>

So if you share a link to Facebook and there is an og:image tag in a page, Facebook should use what’s there. I am speculating, but perhaps they were using your provided image if there isn’t an og:image tag or instead of and then changed it so that if there is an og:image tag they will use that first instead of your provided image.  Again, I’m just guessing, but it’s a logical guess.

If you want to share an image of your own, perhaps you should use the photo dialog instead of the link dialog.

Rob

#3

Facebook is always changing things. The Link dialog is for sharing links and if that link has an open graph card in the page header, that page wants you to use the image they have provided. For instance here is part of the header (the <HEAD> tag) from a local newspaper article:

\<meta property="og:site\_name" content="newsobserver"/\> \<meta property="og:type" content="article"/\> \<meta property="og:title" content="Hurricane Florence forces high school football teams to adjust to short schedule"/\> \<meta property="og:url" content="https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/article218330220.html"/\> \<meta property="og:description" content="Several area schools, including Leesville Road and Garner, had a quick turnaround after playing on Friday because of Hurricane Florence"/\> \<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.newsobserver.com/latest-news/2xb0qb/picture218330955/alternates/LANDSCAPE\_1140/RAL\_%20091218\_GAR\_LEV\_FB\_SW\_1\_2%20(2)"/\>

So if you share a link to Facebook and there is an og:image tag in a page, Facebook should use what’s there. I am speculating, but perhaps they were using your provided image if there isn’t an og:image tag or instead of and then changed it so that if there is an og:image tag they will use that first instead of your provided image.  Again, I’m just guessing, but it’s a logical guess.

If you want to share an image of your own, perhaps you should use the photo dialog instead of the link dialog.

Rob