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Cody.Stewart
Cody.Stewart

Reputation: 577

Why does FB ignore the picture, name, and caption parameter when posting a link on a user's stream?

I have my app posting a link to the user's wall if they have given it permissions, but it ignores the picture, name, and caption values I pass along with it.

HTTParty.post("https://graph.facebook.com/#{@sponsorship.fbid}/links", :query => {:access_token => URI.escape(@access_token), :link => URI.escape(request.env['HTTP_HOST']), :picture => URI.escape("#{request.env['HTTP_HOST']}/images/fb_post/after_donation.jpg"), :name => URI.encode("Click here"), :caption => URI.encode("This is the caption")})

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 658

Answers (2)

Igy
Igy

Reputation: 43816

It's probably taking those values from the open graph meta tags on the link target rather than the ones you provide at post time. Not sure if that's supposed to be happening but you should check if your link has the correct tags.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/ is the docs and https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug will show you what markup is detected on your page

Upvotes: 0

Matt E
Matt E

Reputation: 11

Think you might need to be using

https://graph.facebook.com/#{@sponsorship.fbid}/feed

instead of

https://graph.facebook.com/#{@sponsorship.fbid}/links

Upvotes: 1

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