Sharing individual URL in playlist

Hi wintv!

I’m not fully grasping the idea. Would you like to create a playlist where individual videos will be represented by a text list (a video will be displayed as a line of text and not a splash image). Thanks!

Lucia

Hi Lucia and Martin,

This feature request is trickier than it looks. Jenny wants to be able to share her videos to Facebook. In principle this doesn’t require a link to a video but a special backend connection script as YouTube is using.

The issue is that backend script is also unreliable now that Facebook has their own video service:

* https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=10151695596842618
* https://www.facebook.com/tutovidsblog/posts/431561136985204

Facebook is trying to push YouTube out of the way and get people to upload their videos to Facebook and then share out elsewhere: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/25/facebook-will-now-let-you-embed-facebook-videos-on-other-sites/

Here’s what the YouTube Facebook sharing links look like as of today:

https://www.facebook.com/dialog/share?app_id=87741124305&href=https%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DVuNIsY6JdUw%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded&display=popup&redirect_uri=https://www.youtube.com/facebook_redirect

jwPlayer is doing something slightly different with URLs like this to share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcontent.jwplatform.com%2Fpreviews%2FoSQWzFgF-8nLlWRv4

Both work as of today.

There doesn’t seem to be any way to fully share a video URL directly in Facebook without uploading the content itself onto Facebook servers (allowing people then to use Facebook sharing for your video): https://www.facebook.com/help/videos/uploading

So what we could do is offer admins an easy way to download their videos (HQ version) to be able to upload them to Facebook more quickly and easily. It could be handy as it may be one person on a team creating and adding videos to a website and someone else in charge of social sharing. So I see this as two features:

1. quick download for admins
2. direct sharing button to Facebook (requiring a registered sharing URL)

It appears that Facebook doesn’t require registration but does require OpenGraph. We’ll have to dig deeper into the following:

https://developers.facebook.com/products/sharing/overview
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/web

For a publisher to see their Facebook sharing stats though that publisher will have to register with Facebook Domain Insights: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/platforminsights/domains That’s beyond our scope.

What we can do is provide the direct video download to admins and the open graph tags Facebook requires for sharing as well as an automatic link to the Facebook sharing service.

We can debug sharing here: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

It’s great that Google and Facebook and Apple are making interplatform compatibility so easy again. I admire their dedication to the open web [sarcasm alert].

Have fun!

Alec

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This feature request has made it to our new Trello board for Feature requests (work in progress): https://trello.com/c/K8pYiXbr

It’s in the upcoming category. Current behaviour shares the page along with an image thumbnail (not the video!) which is not bad but not specifically video sharing.

Our strategy for now is to focus on including the right tags so that when a video is shared on Facebook, the video gets picked up as video and not as an image and a link to the page. This should be the new default for Facebook shares (if someone wants to share the page as a page, usually there are other share buttons there).

• This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by Alec Kinnear. Reason: adding current behaviour