By HS on

A few others have been experiencing this. See link below we assumed it was an issue with the 'AddThis Module'.

http://drupal.org/node/363679

But even when content is directly shared on facebook (posting a link on your profile) the post title, teaser or image isn't pulled.

Anyone know what can be done to rectify this?

I'm on the Marinelli theme but its not a theme related issue - it wont work on Garland either.

Any help is appreciated - thanks in advance.

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acouch commented

I am having the same problem on a Drupal 6 site.

I haven't had time to dig into it so if anyone has any more info on this issue that would be great.

Aaron Couch

drupal: DKAN
work: http://govdelivery.com
me: http://aaroncouch.info

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HS commented

Generally the user will never bother editing the submission and typing stuff in. Basically means that Drupal sites are missing out on Facebook exposure.

Anything to do with Drupal's page compression you reckon?

acouch’s picture

acouch commented

i have tried this with page compression turned on and off.

here is an example url: http://allforthetaking.org/picture-homeless-organize-rally-and-building-...

Aaron Couch

drupal: DKAN
work: http://govdelivery.com
me: http://aaroncouch.info

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HS commented

So its nothing to do with the page compression.

baffling..

I hope someone comes by with a solution..

HS’s picture

HS commented

It doesnt even work on Drupal.org

Give it a try

http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://drupal.org

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acouch commented

here is something interesting. i am using domain module to manage a number of sites. if i try and use facebook share on one of the secondary sites, i get the error described above:

http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://allforthetaking.org/node/418

for: http://allforthetaking.org/node/418

but if i use the base domain, it works:

http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://mediamobilizing.org/node/418

for http://mediamobilizing.org/node/418

i'll look into this more as i get a chance.

Aaron Couch

drupal: DKAN
work: http://govdelivery.com
me: http://aaroncouch.info

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HS commented

Thanks looking forward to your findings. Everyone is loosing out on promoting their content on Facebook, they just don't know it yet. A huge drawback in Drupal to be honest. I hope more people draw attention to this thread.

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Exploratus commented

I have the same problem. Can only share with the primary domain... Very strange.. I need this fixed though...

HS’s picture

HS commented

Ok did a little digging up and Facebook on this page says:

Basic Tags

In order to make sure that the preview is always correctly populated, you should add the tags shown below to your html. An example news story could have the following:

<meta name="title" content="Smith hails 'unique' Wable legacy" />
<meta name="description" content="John Smith claims beautiful football is the main legacy of Akhil Wable's decade at the club. " />
<link rel="image_src" href="http://www.onjd.com/design05/images/PH2/WableAFC205.jpg" />

As shown, title contains the preview title, description contains the preview summary and image_src contains the preview image. Please make sure that none of the content fields contain any html markup because it will be stripped out. For consistency's sake, please use the tag to provide text data for the preview, and the
tag for any source urls.

The title and summary tags are the minimum requirements for any preview, so make sure to include these two.

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Muslim guy commented

Hilal, interesting name :)

Yes, i am also working on this problem, spent about 5 hours and still havent solved

Using garland:
Image and content are pulled into Facebook
TITLE is not

see http://almuslimin.net

BUT, no problem like this with a SUBDOMAIN
see http://almuslimin.net/JODOH

*I noticed difference between sharer.php and share.php (facebook)
*also the URL , example:
http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Falmuslimin.net%2FALLAH...

See that the title at the end of the URL. But why doesnt FB get the title?

@the same problem whether you are using:
AddtoAny module for Drupal
Manual insertion of `Share in Facebook' script
ServiceLinks module for Drupal

Using three different BROWSERS (Firefox, IE, Safari)

Whereas, if you use Facebook Comment (Facebook Connect plus comment): if you comment on a node individually, your comment, the title, and the link will get displayed in your FB home/profile

***update:
just now, i tried again (indivudual node), and the title plus image thumbnail got into fb, and i could even change the `title'.

Title + thumbnail + content are nicely displayed

But instead of displaying the URL, it now displays, below the title:
Source: yourdomain.com

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rspindel commented

Make sure your rel="canonical" link is set to the specific URL to share, otherwise it will just show the root domain under the link in FB Share.

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markconroy commented

Any updates on this?

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Drupal Core Maintainer for "Out of the Box" Initiative.

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markconroy commented

If the problem is occuring because of an Artisteer created theme, you can fix it by changing

$spanL->nodeValue = " "; to $spanL->nodeValue = " ";

and
$spanR->nodeValue = " "; to $spanR->nodeValue = " ";

in the file called common_methods.php.

See here:
http://www.artisteer.com/Default.aspx?post_id=133729&p=forum_post

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Drupal Core Maintainer for "Out of the Box" Initiative.

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csuggs4 commented

I'm using the AddThis module, Drupal 6. The only way I can get thumbnail images to show up in Facebook is if I'm logged in to Drupal and use AddThis. If I manually add the URL in Facecrack, no thumbnail; if I use AddThis as an anonymous Drupal user, no thumbnail.

Here's the code I'm using for the thumbnails:

<meta name="title" content="Low Coal, the film" />
<meta name="description" content="Low Coal makes the case that strong and resilient Appalachian communities are paying a heavy price for an economic reliance on coal mining." />
<link rel="image_src" href="http://lowcoalexplicit.org/images/chucklowcoal.jpg" />
<link rel="image_src" href="http://lowcoalexplicit.org/images/winnielowcoal.jpg" />

Thanks.