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Aki Iskandar
Aki Iskandar

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How can I post a video, via Facebook's Connect API, to my Facebook profile page?

Has anyone posted a video via the Facebook Connect API to their profile / feed page?

Ideally, the video should be queued to the first frame with the superimposed Facebook's blue right arrow "play" button. Or if a thumbnail representing the video has to also be uploaded (rather than the video being queued to the first frame) as well, this is fine.

Also, when the video, or thumbnail, on the profile page is clicked, the video plays where it is - rather than going to another page off Facebook to be played there.

Upvotes: 3

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Answers (3)

Aki Iskandar
Aki Iskandar

Reputation: 174

The question may have not been correctly worded. The term "API" was misleading to a couple of folks - and I apologize for that.

What I was trying to do was to "share" a video by linking it in Facebook, AND to have it play in the profile feed (ie. to not leave the Facebook site while viewing the video - just like YouTube and Hulu.com do).

After digging into the JavaScript that Hulu was using to get this behavior, we noticed that a link tag was missing between our version of the <meta> and <link> tags, and Hulu's.

Facebook's web page, http://www.facebook.com/share_partners.php, was missing a tag that you should have if the content is a video, and you want it played in the profile feed.

Along with: 

<link rel="video_src" href="http://www.example.com/player.swf?video_id=123456789"/> ...

You should include: 

<link rel="media:video" href="http://www.example.com/player.swf?video_id=123456789"/>

That will get it to play in the feed. BUT, your domain name must be whitelisted.

To get your domain whitelisted, fill out this form: http://www.facebook.com/share_partners.php#/developers/developer_help.php

I got a reply, and approval, within a day! Kudos to the Facebook developer support staff!

Upvotes: 2

Andreas Klinger
Andreas Klinger

Reputation: 824

Use the Video.upload as described by stevedbrown or the Stream API or if you want to go simple share the link via API or share link.

Upvotes: 1

stevedbrown
stevedbrown

Reputation: 8934

Have you read the Facebook developer wiki page on this? That explains what is possible and how, it's pretty decent.

Upvotes: 0

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