Open link to Facebook page from iOS app

Question

I want to redirect user to my App\'s Facebook page, so I have the following code:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:
    [NSURL URLWithString: @\"ht         


        

Answer 1

It seems that since the last answer Facebook have changed the scheme for pages (profile is same as before)

the page_id is now the part of URL query. So in order to redirect to fb app, the url has to be in the format:

fb://page/?id=your_page_numeric_id

Also make sure to whitelist fb scheme in your apps Info.plist

LSApplicationQueriesSchemes

    fb

In case there will be any further modifications or you don't know your facebook page's page_id, you can extract the precise iOS fb URL from your Facebook web page source.

1. Open your Facebook page in Safari
2. Right click -> Inspect Element
3. Search for al:ios:url

You should be able to find:

Copying this URL into your app and then calling:

guard let facebookURL = NSURL(string: "fb://page/?id=your_page_numeric_id") else {
    return
}

if (UIApplication.sharedApplication().canOpenURL(facebookURL)) {
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().openURL(facebookURL)
} else {

    guard let webpageURL = NSURL(string: "http://facebook.com/yourPage/") else {
        return
    }

    UIApplication.sharedApplication().openURL(webpageURL)
}

should do the job...