I need to be able to add sharing functionality to my custom button. I’m not interested with their generator, as I can’t change LinkedIn image there. I want to use my own image for the LinkedIn share button.
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I need to be able to add sharing functionality to my custom button. I’m not interested with their generator, as I can’t change LinkedIn image there. I want to use my own image for the LinkedIn share button.
Official LinkedIn API for sharing:
https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/share-on-linkedin
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Example link using "Customized URL" method: http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10713542/how-to-make-custom-linkedin-share-button/10737122&title=How%20to%20make%20custom%20linkedin%20share%20button&summary=some%20summary%20if%20you%20want&source=stackoverflow.com
You just need to open it in popup using JavaScript or load it to
iframe. Simple and works – that’s what I was looking for!EDIT: Video attached to a post:
I checked that you can’t really embed any video to LinkedIn post, the only option is to add the link to the page with video itself.
You can achieve it by putting YT link into
urlparam:https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBi92AOSW2E
If you specify
summaryandtitlethen LinkedIn will stop pulling it from the video, e.g.:https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&summary=youtube&title=f1&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBi92AOSW2E
It does work exactly the same with Vimeo, and probably will work for any website. Hope it will help.
EDIT 2: Pulling images to the post:
When you open above links you will see that LinkedIn loads some images along with the passed URL (and optionally title and summary).
LinkedIn does it automatically, and you can read about it here: https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/share-on-linkedin#opengraph
It’s interesting though as it says:
It tells me that even if Open Graph information is not attached, LinkedIn can pull this data based on its own analysis. And in case of YouTube it seems to be the case, as I couldn’t find any Open Graph tags added to YouTube pages.