url - Facebook share link - can you customize the message body text?

Question

I'm trying to create a link that will share a page on Facebook. So far I've got:

href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php
?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F
&t=CNN%26s+website"

However, I'd really like to add some text that will go in the 'What's on your mind?' text box (especially as the t value gets overridden by the link's title). Does anyone know if this is possible?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5023602/facebook-share-link-can-you-customize-the-message-body-text

Answer 1

You can't do this using sharer.php, but you can do something similar using the Dialog API. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/

http://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?  
app_id=123050457758183&  
link=http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/&
picture=http://fbrell.com/f8.jpg&  
name=Facebook%20Dialogs&  
caption=Reference%20Documentation& 
description=Dialogs%20provide%20a%20simple,%20consistent%20interface%20for%20applications%20to%20interact%20with%20users.&
message=Facebook%20Dialogs%20are%20so%20easy!&
redirect_uri=http://www.example.com/response

The catch is you must create a dummy Facebook application just to have an app_id. Note that your Facebook application doesn't have to do ANYTHING at all. Just be sure that it is properly configured, and you should be all set.