Facebook Sharing... The right strategy..

[marketshow]

Hello everyone,

first of all i have never worked with facebook before and out there is an ocean of information most of them useless, so i need your opinion/knowledge/experience.

I need to update one of my apps so it can share on the Facebook. I need to share a small image, a title, a small text and a link. I have seen other apps can do it but its a bit confusing.

I tried Sharekit but it seems its not what i need cause Actionsheet can only take one argument.

Does anyone know how can i do that, or give me a go to the right direction?

Thank you,
Marketshow

[dany_dev]

what about using sharekit, with the method

+ (SHKItem *)image:(UIImage *)image title:(NSString *)title;

and put link and text on title parameter

[marketshow]

Originally Posted by dany_dev

what about using sharekit, with the method

+ (SHKItem *)image:(UIImage *)image title:(NSString *)title;

and put link and text on title parameter

First of all thank you for your reply Dani.

I have already tried that but after i concat the title and the text with the

stringByAppendingString

it all comes as one. I would like the title to come in bold at least.

And furthermore, sharekit creates an album to the user.. I dont know if they r gona like it! I dont think i would like it for an app i use!

Consider my app as a newspaper with articles that i would like to share.

Thanks again,
Marketshow

[marketshow]

In fact i want that!!

[baja_yu]

That's done by sharing an URL I think. Facebook pulls all the info from it, page title, picture and partial text. I don't think you can manually choose and set those elements.

[marketshow]

Thank you for the reply baja_yu.

The URL sharing through ShareKit didnt get the job done. It gets the link in the title but not the img and the text.

I know it can be done, the pic i posted is from an iPhone App but maybe it cant be done through ShareKit. Any other thoughts? Maybe another way i can shaer those things?


Thank u in advance,
Marketshow

[mr3cho]

Originally Posted by marketshow

Thank you for the reply baja_yu.

The URL sharing through ShareKit didnt get the job done. It gets the link in the title but not the img and the text.

I know it can be done, the pic i posted is from an iPhone App but maybe it cant be done through ShareKit. Any other thoughts? Maybe another way i can shaer those things?


Thank u in advance,
Marketshow

I'm got this working by modifying colinhumber's sharekit fork (https://github.com/colinhumber/ShareKit). Great work by colinhumber btw!

The image and description for the link are extracted from the websites meta tags btw.

I replaced the following code in SHKFacebook.m class...

- (BOOL)send {
	if (item.shareType == SHKShareTypeURL) {
        
		NSMutableDictionary *params = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
									   [item.URL absoluteString], @"link",
									   item.title, @"name",
									   item.text, @"caption",
									   nil];
		
		if ([item customValueForKey:@"image"]) {
			[params setObject:[item customValueForKey:@"image"] forKey:@"picture"];
		}
		
		[self.facebook requestWithGraphPath:@"me/feed" 
								  andParams:params 
							  andHttpMethod:@"POST" 
								andDelegate:self];

with this...

 NSMutableDictionary *params = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
									   [item.URL absoluteString], @"link",
									   item.title, @"name",
                                       item.text, @"message",
									   nil];
		
		[self.facebook requestWithGraphPath:@"me/links" 
								  andParams:params 
							  andHttpMethod:@"POST" 
								andDelegate:self];

so it posts to me/links instead of me/feeds

also modify SHKSharer class to include a message: param on the shareURL method if you want to include a message.

+ (id)shareURL:(NSURL *)url title:(NSString *)title message:(NSString *)message;

[marketshow]

Thank you mr3cho,

i will try this and report back!

[marketshow]

Hello again,
had a problem with

"Cannot Open Page Safari can not open the page because the address is invalid"

but i fixed it but editing the info.plist.


Thank you mr3cho you have been of great help...

My only thing now is that the pic doesn't come right. Its a wrong image. I probably should speak with website administrator about the websites meta tags you mentioned above!

Thank you,
Marketshow

[marketshow]

I am still having problem about the picture.
mr3cho mentioned the website meta tags but my site administrator cant help me. The web-page has multiple images and i cant extract the one i want.

Has anyone a hint or experience on that certain subject?


Edit:
Finally i think its all about the websites meta-tags.
Here are some links that may help somebody in the future :

http://moserlx.com/2011/09/facebook-...-tags-806.html

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/