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Jiří Bureš
Jiří Bureš

Reputation: 21

Facebook messenger link sharing does not work with a message

I can initiate dialog to send a link to Facebook Messenger. Everything goes fine and recepient gets the message with URL. However, when a message is added in Facebook's UI, only that message is received and URL NOT.

Message field causes link to be ignored in received message

Desktop

I have tried both methods according to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/send-dialog/

URL

https://www.facebook.com/dialog/send?display=page&link=https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/send-dialog&redirect_uri=https://www.facebook.com&app_id=<APP_ID>

SDK

window.fbAsyncInit = function () {
        FB.init({
          appId: '<APP_ID>',
          autoLogAppEvents: true,
          xfbml: true,
          version: 'v11.0',
        });
      };

FB.ui({
  method: 'send',
  link: 'https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/send-dialog/',
});

I have tried different SDK versions and different APP IDs.

Mobile

Curriosly so, my setup for mobile works fine, link is received with or without a message.

fb-messenger://share?=<APP_ID>&link=<MY_LINK>

I am really confused as there does not seem much to configure... Thanks in advance for any leads on this.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3359

Answers (1)

Jiř&#237; Bureš
Jiř&#237; Bureš

Reputation: 21

It has been acknowledged as a bug by Facebook already in May https://developers.facebook.com/support/bugs/201777038410094/

Again reported in July https://developers.facebook.com/support/bugs/2934678630125393/?join_id=f3c21b71e26d8c

Upvotes: 1

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