I've been doing some research and I have yet to find any information that is relevant to what I'm looking for. I've included some links to questions I've already found when they're relevant.
I made a page in WordPress (though the CMS isn't necissarily relevant), and one page has a series of comments. Before each comment, I created an anchor tag, so that if you go to the URL "http://website.com/#10", you'll be brought to the tenth comment. The URL and anchors work fine.
I am now trying to integrate Facebook Share functionality into the site. Specifically, I want to be able to share the URL "http://website.com/#10", with the #10 included, such that a user will be able to share a specific comment on social media and not just the entire comments page.
Following the Facebook Share Dialog example, located here, I crafted a URL that looks like this:
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/share?
app_id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
&display=popup
&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwebsite.com%2F%2310
&redirect_uri=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
With all of the X's filled in with valid information. Note that the "href" parameter is "http%3A%2F%2Fwebsite.com%2F%2310", which is an encoded version of "http://website.com/#10". The "#" symbol is encoded as "%23".
This URL works relatively well for sharing. When I click on it, I'm brought to Facebook, which gives me the same dialog box they show on the Share Dialog developers page. However, after clicking on "Post to Facebook", I find that the actual URL that gets shared is, in fact, "http://website.com/?fb_action_ids=XXXXX&fb_action_types=og.shares". No "#10" anywhere in the URL.
Here's some information on the research I've done, to show that this is a new question (and to remove any repeated answers).
Does anyone have any advice for how to proceed?
Using dialog does not seems to allow the URL to have #10, as you need.
Instead you may use, for exemple:
https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.terra.com.br%2F%23dia-13&display=popup&ref=plugin
;
What can be done is to open a window by javascript, using this URL, where u
refers to URL.
So far, there isn't a documentation that describes what parameters can be used with the URL. What is known is that images, title and description may be declared by <meta>
tags using og:image
, for example, to ensure some default content.
As stated here: http://okaypl.us/blog/facebook-share-dialog-longer-accepts-custom-parameters/
Some old parameters that probably are not working anymore are found in similar questions like: how to pass parameter like title,summary and image in facebook sharer url.