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alh84001
alh84001

Reputation: 1283

Built-in like action rejects the object type

First of all, can someone confirm that open graph object types form a hierarchy. I mean is every movie a video and is every video an object?

The reason I'm asking is that like action type supports only defining object object type in the app dashboard so if I define my object to be of type movie, will I be able to like that object? From what I can gather from documentation, that should indeed be the case, but it is not stated anywhere explicitly.

I stumbled upon this because I get an error while trying to like a URL on behalf of a user. The liked object instance has the og:type defined as movie. The error returned is:

{"error":{"message":"(#100) Like actions are not yet supported against objects of this type.","type":"OAuthException","code":100}}


I tried several things and I got really confusing results:

  1. I tried changing the og:type parameter to object. I got the same error.
  2. I tried changing the og:type parameter to website. I got the same error.
  3. I tried changing the og:type parameter to video. I got the same error.
  4. I tried changing the id query parameter in the URL that is passed as an object to like. That causes my web app on the server to not find the object referenced by id and in turn not render any meta tags. According to the debugger, type is determined implicitly as 'website'. This works in a sense that I get an id of the action instance, and trying the same request again throws an error that the connection already exists. However, nothing shows in either the news feeds or in Likes in user profile. I can delete the connection normally.
  5. I tried supplying an URL that can not be resolved by DNS. The debugger says it can't scrape any information. Otherwise, the same happens as in case 4.


Some more info about my setup:


[possibly a duplicate of this question]

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3213

Answers (1)

Donn Lee
Donn Lee

Reputation: 3149

Type website is fine.

Try doing the Like Button Migration, see "Preparing for Migration" in that doc.

You can check if your website needs the migration by checking if it has the old-style "Admin Page" for that website (object) by checking if you are admin for a FB Page with the same name as the og:site-name or og:title meta tag. If you are admin for a FB Page named the same as your object, then like'ing using Open Graph (ie. with /me/og.likes) requires Like Button Migration.

Upvotes: 2

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