Graph API post of video is not playable

Question

I have an application that posts music videos from YouTube to a Facebook user\'s wall. The post on Facebook would have this embed video be playable from Facebook. Recently it st

Answer 1

Generalized Workaround

I generalized the answer to this similar question: posting a swf in facebook feed through facebook api. I created a page that takes two parameters and generates the necessary meta tags. Facebook accepts the link, the user is correctly redirected, and you don't need a separate page for each posted video.

1. url - the final URL
2. id - the id of the youtube or embedded video

I successfully made numerous embedded posts in which the link was not associated with the video.

Example Post

message = Post message
description = Post description if needed.
name = Post name
caption = Post caption
link = http://vbcopper.com/jsuar/so/fbembedvideo.php?url=stackoverflow.com&id=QGAJokcwBXI
source = http://www.youtube.com/e/QGAJokcwBXI
picture = http://img.youtube.com/vi/QGAJokcwBXI/0.jpg

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Findings

I was able to successfully replicate your issue. I could find no work around.

This has been submitted as a bug to Facebook but deemed low priority.

Bugs: Posting video to feed with link attribute doesn't embed the source https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/502967809730190?browse=search_5074a2e48fd360934230075