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Jair Fernandes
Jair Fernandes
2,234 Points
Posted by Jair Fernandes
Jair Fernandes
2,234 Points

What is the Facebook equivilent to twitter link <a href="http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?screen_name=example">?

I want to use a Facebook link instead of a twiiter link, but I'd like it to be like the twitter link, such that, you dont see the profile just get a comment screen.

2 Answers

David Yrigoyen
David Yrigoyen
34,679 Points
David Yrigoyen
David Yrigoyen
34,679 Points

I don't believe there is an easy way to do this like the Twitter link. I believe you have to use a Facebook API. Here is a link, I found for it: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins

Iain Simmons
MOD
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points
Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

I don't think Facebook officially supports it anymore, but you'll find many people/services still use the sharer.php script/page:

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fteamtreehouse.com">Share</a>

Note that the value of the u variable/query string should be URL encoded.

This will open a page that will first ensure the user is logged in to Facebook and then fetch the OpenGraph info of the site (including things like the title, thumbnail image(s) and a description), and allow them to enter their own comment/post text, select where to post to, and finally what the audience should be.