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CHeffernan087
CHeffernan087

Reputation: 225

Sharing Videos On Facebook

I've been looking at facebook pages whos primary function is to share 'the best videos on the internet' with their viewers and I'm interested in exactly how they get their material. I've looked at the source of some of these videos and it appears as though they are hosted on facebook servers. Obviously these pages are not downloading this content from youtube and re-uploading it to facebook as this is an infringement of the youtube copyright user policy so i'm wondering how is it that these pages manage to share these pages are able to embed these videos in their pages so that they play directly on the users timeline (i don't want to share a link to youtube)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 71

Answers (1)

C3roe
C3roe

Reputation: 96151

Embedding videos in external URLs, so that they are playable inline in newsfeed/timeline, is done via Open Graph meta tags.

Which tags you need specifically for videos, you’ll find described here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters#video

To test your implementation, you can use Facebook’s debug tool:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

You can embed either swf flash players, or mp4 videos directly.

Be aware, that you need an HTTPS version of the resources you want to embed, otherwise they won’t be playable inline, the browser will block them.

Upvotes: 2

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