Is there a simple Facebook “Like” or share URL?

Question

Is there a simple URL string that Facebook will accept to \"like\" a site... or more accurately (as a commenter points out below), share a site? As a comparison, Twitte

Answer 1

There is a way how to do it, but not very comfortable for users, because they must click on 'like' button twice.

https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F

http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F is url encoded version of http://example.com/ .

Or you can place this link into iframe and then only one click is needed for liking of url

Answer 2

Not exactly an answer, but close enough for me:

http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://mysite.com/

That'll do it.

Answer 3

No, Facebook only permits Liking a page via a Like button.

Answer 4

There is a non-depreciated equivalent to the twitter or sharer.php functionality, though it is way more annoying. This doesn't exactly answer the question about "liking" a page but does accomplish the exact analogy to the twitter share, which seems to be what the question is asking.

• https://developers.facebook.com/apps/ - make a new app with a developer account.
• Make the Display Name the name of your business or website
• add your domain without http under App Domains
• add your base URL under Website with Facebook Login (with http )
• Grab the App ID

Now make your url like this:

http://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=000000000000000&link=http://example.com/whatever&redirect_uri=http://example.com/backtothesite

You would think the redirect_uri would default to the user's facebook home or to the link parameter, but it's a required field.

More parameters here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/feed/

Answer 5

It's a little more verbose with Facebook to do the same thing.

<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
  js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId={YOUR_APP_ID}";
  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>

<div class="fb-like" 
    data-href="http://mysite.com" 
    data-send="true" 
    data-width="450" 
    data-show-faces="true">
</div>

Answer 6

At the bottom of this page:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/share/

Feel free to create your own implementation based on this.