Sharing a TEXT alonsgide with a page text on FB and LINKEDIN?

Question

I\'ve just stumbled upon sharing a text (a hashtag) togeher with a text on Facebook / LinkedIn. Here is hwat I am trying to do (hashtag: #STUFF):

Answer 1

While I am uncertain about the other services, you can customize the share text on LinkedIn using this format (Note that all of the {} placeholder values should be replaced with URL-encoded values):

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url={URL to share}&title={article title}&summary={article summary}&source={your app/website name}">Link text</a>

E.g.

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://developer.linkedin.com&title=LinkedIn%20Developer%20Network&summary=My%20favorite%20developer%20program&source=LinkedIn">Link text</a>

Complete documentation for sharing content can be found here: https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/share-on-linkedin

Answer 2

Facebook

Using sharer, you can only specify url, like so...

https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u={url}

Source: Facebook Sharer Documentation.

BUT, if you register your app, get an app id, and install the Facebook share dialog plugin, then you have virtually unlimited access to specify sharing...

https://www.facebook.com/dialog/share?app_id={app_id}&display={page_type}&href={url}&redirect_uri={redirect_url}

Source: Facebook Dialog Documentation.

LinkedIn

So, you cannot really specify any text when sharing on LinkedIn. You can only set the url param. But you can set the og: tags to show title, image, etc., as a preview in your share page:

• <meta property='og:title' content='Title of the article"/>
• <meta property='og:image' content='//media.example.com/ 1234567.jpg"/>
• <meta property='og:description' content='Description that will show in the preview"/>
• <meta property='og:url' content='//www.example.com/URL of the article" />

Source: LinkedIn Developer Docs: Making Your Website Shareable on LinkedIn.

Verify that you did it right with: the LinkedIn Post Inspector.

BUT, similarly to Facebook, if you register your app, get an appid, etc., you can use this format fully to your heart's content...

"com.linkedin.ugc.ShareContent": {
        "shareCommentary": {
            "text": "Hello World! This is my first Share on LinkedIn!"
        },
        "shareMediaCategory": "NONE"
    }

Source: Microsoft LinkedIn Documentation: Share on LinkedIn.