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Hey Blubrry => Feature Requests => Topic started by: protoaddict on November 12, 2013, 09:53:33 am

Title: Adding Facebook meta data to posts with Blubrry
Post by: protoaddict on November 12, 2013, 09:53:33 am
I have been looking for a way to get my player to show up in Facebook posts. In order for this to work the page would need to declare metadata in the header, which would only be available to Blubrry.

As a for instance, you can see soundcloud posts audio files to facebook by adding 5 tags to the header:

Currently I use a plugin to display OG Data but since it does not have access to Blubrry and does not know what the podcast file is, it cannot add this information to the header.

My request is that Blubrry adds a toggle-able function that allows you to turn OG:Video data on/off.
Title: Re: Adding Facebook meta data to posts with Blubrry
Post by: angelo on November 18, 2013, 11:19:36 am
Do you have Facebook documentation on this? Last time we spent time developing a solution for Facebook, a month before we released it they changed the rules on how to post media on facebook and rendered our work worthless. So I would rather not spend our development cycles on something that is not documented by Facebook.
Title: Re: Adding Facebook meta data to posts with Blubrry
Post by: yourbossblows on February 21, 2014, 07:52:28 pm
Has there been any resolution to this? I would love my audio player to show up on facebook.
Title: Re: Adding Facebook meta data to posts with Blubrry
Post by: angelo on February 21, 2014, 07:54:50 pm
Just waiting for someone to explain how we can implement. At the moment there is no offical documented api that I could find.
Title: Re: Adding Facebook meta data to posts with Blubrry
Post by: mateo360 on April 08, 2014, 09:28:03 am
I think you have to create an application on Facebook. Here's the code inserted by Podomatic in a page of mine that, I think, allow the player to be embed directly in FB (from the following page http://mateo360.podomatic.com/entry/2014-03-12T03_34_15-07_00 ) :

<meta content='216756441679292' property='fb:app_id' />
<meta content='podomatic:podcast_episode' property='og:type' />
<meta content='http://mateo360.podomatic.com/entry/2014-03-12T03_34_15-07_00' property='og:url' />
<meta content='http://assets.podomatic.net/ts/9d/de/64/mateo360/200x200-279x279+48+0_9352134.jpg' property='og:image' />
<meta content='PodOmatic' property='og:site_name' />
<meta content='application/x-shockwave-flash' property='og:video:type' />
<meta content='393' property='og:video:width' />
<meta content='93' property='og:video:height' />
<meta content='https://mateo360.podomatic.com/swf/joeplayer_v20a.swf?facebook=false&amp;minicast=false&amp;jsonLocation=http%3A%2F%2Fmateo360.podomatic.com%2Fentry%2Fembed_params%2F2014-03-12T03_34_15-07_00%3Fheight%3D93%26amp%3Bwidth%3D393' property='og:video' />
Title: Re: Adding Facebook meta data to posts with Blubrry
Post by: angelo on April 08, 2014, 11:00:56 am
Looks like it uses flash. Will have to see if we can have a JavaScript based player or just HTML5 player on Facebook as an alternative, flash doesn't work on mobile apps and most folks I know consume Facebook from the apps.

Does a player appear from the Facebook mobile apps for the podomatic app?
Title: Re: Adding Facebook meta data to posts with Blubrry
Post by: mateo360 on April 08, 2014, 11:07:09 am
Can't tell, I don't use Facebook App !