What's the easiest way to help a user post a pic to his Facebook page?

by GoodLifeMission

Posted: 7 years ago 6 replies

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Preferably there would be a simple script I could install that would handle this one process: Show a picture on my web page and ask the user if he wants to post it to his Facebook page. The script takes it from there.

Come to think of it, the script ideally would ask where the user wants to post it (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc.), he clicks the button corresponding to that destination, and the script takes it from there.

The image would have my URL shown on it, and preferably when clicked would take the clicker to the page on my site that I specify.

Anybody ever done this before?

#easiest #facebook #page #pic #post #user

GoodLifeMission 7 years ago

Research uncovered a couple ways to do this. At https://webmasters.stackexchange.com...ebook-news-fee someone wrote this:

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if you look at the documentation for share and search for "Creating Your Own Share URL" (bottom of the page) you'll see how to construct the proper url.

http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<url to share>&t=<title of content>

http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u...aFlickrPicture

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I tried that and at first I thought it didn't work because my timeline didn't show it immediately. But after about 10 minutes, it did show up. However, the process is unacceptable because it ends with a mysteriously blank page after the photo-share button is clicked, at least on my computer.

A page that tests out perfectly is shown right here:

https://www.facebook.com/TheCarConne...type=3&theater

I'll dissect what that page does and report later. Subscribe to this thread or revisit this page if you want the full scoop.
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zebek 7 years ago

Facing the same issue. Following you post.
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GoodLifeMission 7 years ago

One easy way to have a photo post on Facebook is to give your visitor the page URL to post, in which case Facebook will look for a picture it can scrape off the page and some text to attach to the picture. You would need to have a page that is limited to one picture, using this method. The link to give your visitor should be like this example:

https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?...org/nightscape

I'll keep looking for a better way.
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GoodLifeMission 7 years ago

StackOverflow.com usually has good clear programming advice. Here are two relevant pages:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...sharing-my-url

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...r-share-button

Am pressed for time now, so I'll take a look at it later. Hopefully before then someone will try their advice and let us know how it goes.
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GoodLifeMission 7 years ago

And if you want your users to share a picture on twitter this explains how:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...but-with-image
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Hildacambell 6 years ago

thanks for the link GoodLifeMission...
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What's the easiest way to help a user post a pic to his Facebook page?

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