Question

In trying to create an “object” page for my first facebook app, I’ve run into some difficulty. I followed Facebook’s Open Graph Tutorial nearly exactly.

After creating an “object” html page with the appropriate <meta property="og:... tags I tried running the URL through the Debugger Tool as suggested in the tutorial but I’m given the following error:

“Facebook URLs aren’t scrapable by this Debugger. Try your own.“

This page is in the same directory on my company’s linux box as the canvas page, and is certainly not a “Facebook URL”. If it matters, I’m using an IP instead of a domain name: xx.x.x.xxx/app/obj.html

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I continued the tutorial anyway, but ultimately it does not seem to want to post a new action/object (is this even right?). I did however manage to get something to work, as in the app timeline view I apparently actioned one of those objects a couple hours ago. I assume this happened when I was pasting curl POST commands into the terminal.

I’m pretty new to the whole open graph, and facebook APIs, etc., so I’m probably operating under false assumptions of some sort, and I’ve been all over trying different things, but this error seems pretty bizarre to me and I can’t seem to resolve it.

UPDATE

I just took the object page and put it on my own personal shared hosting acct. The debugger worked (inexplicably) fine on it, but I couldn’t go too far since it’s a different domain than the one authorized by my app.

Answer 1

Make sure og:url inside your html page does not point to facebook.

Also, make sure to look at the open graph protocol page (to see you formatted the og tags correctly.

Also, make sure the page is accessible to everyone, not just yourself.