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Topic-icon AutoPost on user wall video link to article with aditional text

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Can we configure this component to :
everytime a user enter a page if post on the wall of the user a video that with link to the article he is seeing with some custom text?
I need help on developing this.
or similiar
Cheers
Filipe
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Filipe,
You can do this with JFBConnect, but would need to perform a little extra coding. However, I wouldn't recommend doing this, as it may cause your page to be marked as spammy by your users or automatically detected that way by Facebook. If you page gets marked this way, Facebook can remove it from their site and prevent further use of it. We've only heard of this happening in rare cases, but by auto-posting too frequently, that's a good way to do it.

If you insist on doing it though if you feel it would work on your site and not be spammy, it'd be pretty simple, and we can help you with it. You'd simply need to make sure you're getting the user's publish permission (a setting in the JFBConnect permissions tab) and then with a few lines of code described in the post below, you can add whatever custom text you want either dynamically from the page that's being viewed or hard-coded in:
Posting to a user's Facebook Wall using JFBConnect

Hope that helps get you started, but again, be careful.

Thanks,
Alex
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Is it within FB's terms of service to auto post to a user's wall if they "allow"? I've been hearing chatter about them not allowing it anymore. Just wondering.
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Facebook is always updating their privacy settings and Terms of Service. I'd definitely recommend reading through them before you implement anything on your own.

As far as I know, if you have the Post To Wall permission, you can post things to their wall without explicit permission. There should be an 'act' occurring though.. logging in, commenting on something, or something similar. It shouldn't simply be "Hey, look at my site". Additionally, there is an offline_access permission which we'll be adding functionality for in an upcoming release, which will let you post to a wall when a user isn't online and it doesn't require as much notification to the user ahead of time.. but of course risks alienating your users.

Hope that explains, but if you have more specifics of what you're trying to do, we'll gladly let you know what we know. Again though, Facebook's terms of service are the bible for these things.

Alex
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No, that's exactly what I thought and hoped.

Thanks!
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