I know the available custom URL schemes for the native Facebook iPhone App:
What are all the custom URL schemes supported by the Facebook iPhone app?
But I can't find a way to publish a URL to my wall / timeline in that way, that Facebook collects / shows the site title and thumbnail as it does with the touch.facebook.com/sharer.php file.
The only way I see so far is to call
fb://publish/?text=www.domain.com
but this only post the link to my timeline, not title, thumbnail and site description.
Does anyone know a better way?
Basically you have two options:
You can either launch Safari using the Feed Dialog URL Scheme as explained here or use Facebook SDK as explained here.
If your App isn't integrated with Facebook already, it's probably easier to go with the first one.
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I would like to have a "share to instagram stories" functionality in a webapplication. I was hoping i could do that with iOS urls and Android intents (in url form).
Is it possible to deeplink from a browser on android to share an image into the story mode?
I was starting from this linke, to open instagram on android phones:
instagram story test
But I cannot find any good resources that explain how to do this with stories. On https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram/sharing-to-stories/ it is described how it works for proper Apps with intents, but i was hoping it was possible to creat a link out of that too.
Anyone has done something like that or can tell me the scheme of such an URL?
href="intent://WHAT_TO_PUT_HERE#Intent;package=com.instagram.android;action=WHAT_ACTION";scheme=https;end">
how and where to add an image... and where would be com.instagram.share.ADD_TO_STORY?
Or if that is not possible at all, and the most I can get from a browser is opening instagram?
As far as I am aware, these are the only supported hooks documented for instagram.
I am trying to open a group page in Workplace by Facebook app, unfortunately I did not find any custom URL scheme to do it like for the Facebook app.
Does anyone have more information about the custom url schema that can be sent to the Workplace by Facebook app for iPhone?
I recently had the same issue and found out that the main url scheme for Workplace is fbatwork.
To open the app straight to a group, the only working format on iOS seems to be
fbatwork://group?id=your-group-id
There are also a few more available, but I don't know exactly what's their purpose: fbatworksso, fbatworksignup, fbatworkssoreauth, fb-work-emailless
Hi I have a requirement in my app. From my ios Application(myapp),i share a link to facebook. Then I opened up my facebook account in browser or Facebook application and clicked the link, link should open in myapp if myapp is installed in the device otherwise link should open in browser. How can I achieve this ? Please suggest me step by step. Thanks in advance for your consideration and help.
I am not sure if this is possible. I have looked at various questions including
Is it possible to register a http+domain-based URL Scheme for iPhone apps, like YouTube and Maps?
as I am sure you might have already done but these questions target their own app, mainly web app, but you want that behavior to occur from an app that is not yours like twitter or facebook. But what you can do is show them two links on facebook/twitter, if they have installed press link 1 and if they want to install, press link 2 and you can pass parameters in link 1 as you might already know.
I will also keep checking answer of this question if some one comes and gives a better solution.
There is an option called custom URL scheme in iOS. It will help you to create a URL scheme which identifies your application. You can post link with this URL scheme and when you tap on this link on your iOS device it will open up your mobile app. Please see the link below to know how to setup this.
Custom URL Scheme in iOS
This is called 'deep URL linking'. Facebook have built a service called 'App Links', which seems pretty cool.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/app-links
I'm using the UIActivityViewController to share an image and url from within my app.
I'm having trouble formatting the facebook post. I attach an image using a subclassed UIActivityItemProvider and provide the text for the post in the same way.
I want to add a url, but it needs my apps custom url scheme in front of it like this
myurl://image?url=http://imageurl.com
The problem is, when this is posted, only the last half of the url is clickable (from http:// onwards). Which means it doesn't open my app with the url.
Is there another way to do this?
I know I can create an app on Facebook, but how can I tie the two together using the UIActivityViewController?
Thanks
You have 2 options :
Create a simple server-side web service that will redirect from http://yourserver.com/linkToApp/image to myurl://image .
It could even show a different page/preview if the app is not installed/if you're not on an ios device.
Create a facebook app and use "Deep linking" (it will basically do the same for you..)
One of my client wants to open Apple's native weather app from our application. After few I don't see a possible way, unless we need to go with any 3rd party apps which provides custom url scheme.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/Introduction/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007899
It would be great if someone confirm or give me a lead if it is possible.
Its not possible, the weather app doesn't have a known URL scheme and I dubt that it has an unknown one.
The website handleOpenURL is an excellent resource for custom iOS URL schemes; use this link to search for the known Apple app schemes.
Unfortunately the weather app is not among them.
Another couple of sites with schemes (handleOpenURL seems to be the most complete, but it can't hurt to check the others):
app lookup
Akosma iPhone URL Scheme Wiki
You can open the weather app with this URL: weather://
Here is a codepen demo I got to work: https://codepen.io/irom1/pen/KKeZBMW
Open weather
I found another site for sharing the url scheme - http://schemes.zwapp.com/