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peterrattew
peterrattew

Reputation: 107

Sharing an app that is on a facebook fan page

Afternoon,

I have a facebook application that i have added to a facebook fan page, this application has an URL like http://facebook.com/fanPage?sk=app_id. Now i if copy this link and try and share it on the facebook fan page it uses the description/image from the page and not from the application like it want.

Is there any way to change this? The correct meta tags are in place.

Peter

Upvotes: 1

Views: 328

Answers (1)

Rufinus
Rufinus

Reputation: 30741

yes there is a way, but not directly. facebook always fetches the meta tags of the top page, as your app runs in an iframe its not fetched.

but you can submit a wallpost (as user or as a fanpage) via the api and give alle information you want. (like image, video, description, title, ....)

see http://www.fbrell.com/fb.ui/feed for an example.

An other variant: You add a canvas app beside your facebook app. (see the app settings) on this page you add the meta tags for the wallposts, and a javascript which redirects to the fanpage like

top.location.href = 'http://www.facebook.com/mypage?sk=app_id'

when ever you want to share you use the canvas app url. Facebooks greper ignores the javascript redirects but read the meta tags. A user clicking the wallpost is automaticly redirected to the fanpage - tab.

Upvotes: 1

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