Question

I’m developing a webpage of a library which (after the user’s permission) tries to post on the user’s Facebook timeline by using PHP:

Karen is reading 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
A link to http://www.mylibrarysi.te/book.php?id=4048

I tried with this piece of code:

$out = $facebook->api('/me/feed', 'post', array(
'message' => "Karen is reading 'Fifty Shades of Grey'",
'name' => 'Fifty Shades of Grey',
'description' => "Description of 'Fifty Shades of Grey'",
'caption' => 'A book in your library',
'picture' => 'http://www.mylibrarysi.te/bookcover.php?id=4048',
'link' => 'http://www.mylibrarysi.te/book.php?id=4048',
));

I’ve two questions:

1) I’ve just read that Facebook started to stop this possibility to “improve the quality”, deprecating “Authenticated referrals” and “Post to friends wall via the API”
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/10/10/growing-quality-apps-with-open-graph/

Can my piece of code be banned by Facebook to avoid spam? (users grant me to post on their timelines)

2) The result of my piece of code is

Karen Miller shared a link via MY_APP_NAME
Karen is reading 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
(the link, etc.)

is it possible to remove the “Karen Miller shared a link via MY_APP_NAME” text?

Thank you very much in advance and best regards.

Answer 1

1) You are posting to your user wall, not your user’s friends walls. So this should not affect you.

2) The only way to remove the Karen Miller shared a link via MY_APP_NAME text is if you turn your story as an Open Graph action. Read the Open Graph tutorial to understand how to publish app-specific stories. This will allow you to create rich stories like the one shown in Best Practices: Creating Open Graph Stories.

Note that there is a standard OG object book that your application can use, so you can reuse it, no need to create your own object. This will also add the books your app posts about to the list of books that all apps (like Kindle, Goodread, etc) have posted about.