Feed Dialog

You can add the Feed Dialog to your app so people can publish individual stories with comments to their timeline.

Sharing stories via feed dialog does not require asking for any extended permissions.

Integration

This dialog can be used with the Facebook SDKs for JavaScript, iOS, and Android, and by performing a full redirect to a URL. Here are some example code snippets that can be used to trigger this dialog.

JavaScript

To trigger a Feed Dialog call the function FB.ui and use the value feed for the method parameter.

FB.ui({
  method: 'feed',
  link: 'https://developers.facebook.com/docs/'
}, function(response){});

iOS

Read our iOS Share Dialog guide which also allows you to publish Open Graph stories.

Android

Read about our Android Share Dialog which also allows you to publish Open Graph stories.

URL Redirection

https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?
  app_id=145634995501895
  &display=popup
  &link=https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.facebook.com%2Fdocs%2F
  &redirect_uri=https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer

Note

If a person has the "Who can post on your timeline?" setting set to "Only me" and another person tries to make a post to the first person's timeline using the Feed dialog, it will display a "Cannot post" error.

Parameters

Note: If your app share links to the iTunes or Google Play stores, or to a Facebook profile or page, we do not post any images or descriptions that you specify in the share with the parameters below. Instead we post some app information we scrape from the app store or Facebook page directly with the Webcrawler. This may not include images. To preview a link share to iTunes or Google Play, enter your URL into the Sharing Debugger.

Parameter	Description
`app_id`	Your app's unique identifier. Required.
`redirect_uri`	The URL to redirect to after a person clicks a button on the dialog. Required when using URL redirection.
`display`	Determines how the dialog is rendered. If you are using the URL redirect dialog implementation, then this will be a full page display, shown within Facebook.com. This display type is called `page`. If you are using the Facebook SDK for iOS or Android to invoke the dialog, this is automatically specified and chooses an appropriate display type for the device. If you are using the Facebook SDK for JavaScript, this defaults to a modal `iframe` type for people logged into your app or `async` when using within a game on Facebook.com, and a `popup` window for everyone else. You can also force the `popup` or `page` types when using the Facebook SDK for JavaScript, if necessary. Mobile web apps always default to the `touch` display type.
`from`	The ID of the person posting the message. If this is unspecified, it defaults to the current person. If specified, it must be the ID of the person or of a page that the person administers.
`to`	The ID of the profile that this story will be published to. If this is unspecified, it defaults to the value of `from`. The ID must be a friend who also uses your app.
`link`	The link attached to this post.
`source`	The URL of a media file (either SWF or MP3) attached to this post. If SWF, you must also specify `picture` to provide a thumbnail for the video.
`ref`	This argument is a comma-separated list, consisting of at most 5 distinct items, each of length at least 1 and at most 15 characters drawn from the set '0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_'. Each category is used in Facebook Insights to help you measure the performance of different types of post

Deprecated Parameters

Parameter	Description
`post_id`	The ID of the posted story, if the person chose to publish to their timeline.
`properties`	A JSON object of key/value pairs which will appear in the stream attachment beneath the description, with each property on its own line. Keys must be strings, and values can be either strings or JSON objects with the keys `text` and `href`.
`actions`	A JSON array containing a single object describing the action link which will appear next to the 'Comment' and 'Like' link under posts. The contained object must have the keys `name` and `link`.
`picture`	The URL of a picture attached to this post. The picture must be at least 200px by 200px. See our documentation on sharing best practices for more information on sizes.
`name`	The name of the link attachment.
`caption`	The caption of the link (appears beneath the link name). If not specified, this field is automatically populated with the URL of the link.
`description`	The description of the link (appears beneath the link caption). If not specified, this field is automatically populated by information scraped from the link, typically the title of the page.
`thumbnail`	The local image file uploaded,`.jpg` `.jpeg` `.gif` or `.png`.