Anybody could suggest how to add meta tags to json?

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Hello. I am using API connector for facebook graph api to poast a link on my feed. Anybody could suggest how to incorporate these meta tags. It would allow me to customize link title and description on each post. Many thanks!

<meta property="og:title"              content="When Great Minds Don’t Think Alike" />
<meta property="og:description"        content="How much does culture influence creative thinking?" />

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I haven’t looked at the api so i could be way off - probably best not to try this on a live FB account just in case, but give this a go,

	{
		"access_token":"<Access Token>",
		"message":"<Message>",
		"link":"<Link>",
		"og_title":"<Title>",
		"og_description":"<Description>"
	}

or if that does not get it done maybe try,

	{
		"access_token":"<Access Token>",
		"message":"<Message>",
		"link":"<Link>",
		"title":"<Title>",
		"description":"<Description>"
	}
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It didn’t worked. But thanks anyway! Still don’t know what is the correct format for adding meta property into json data.

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any error message returned? im guessing then the api wants to see this as a seperate object or maybe there is a certain field/param/permission required to create/add the certain object inline with the request. what happens if you remove the message field and POST it? alot of api’s will take a message field as a raw text and assume that the entire content is contained within. where as say content:[{ message parts go here}] in message:value 's place would be the answer. if you get stuck for too long i will take a look at facebook dev site and see if i can help.

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no error message. it just posts the link on the feed, but with pre-defined title and description. Basically, those meta tag properties allow to format post content on facebook. I would be very grateful if you could look into it. it’s been over a week I am trying to crack this! There is a section in facebook dev page where it explains shortly. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters#markup

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ok, facebook have pulled the rug out from under you and even worse they are telling you the rug still exists…

using this,

		{
		"access_token":"<Access Token>",
		"link":"<Link>",
	    "message":"<Message>"
	    }

you will be able to post the link with a message text above the snipit. BUT as for renaming the link snippet’s title, description, image and so on,

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i have to say though I agree with this move, although thats not going to help you.

I would look into maybe seeing what if any markup/formatting options are available and formatting the message with an image and an action or something.

Perhaps a spare page on your app make the height & width nice and small, make it look like the snippet you want, give it the title and description you prefer and make it so when the page has param fbreferral=true go to page index, then just post the link to your new page with the param ?fbreferral=true and bingo.

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Thank you for the detailed reply, jarrad! I will definitely will look into your solution! :wink: