Facebook Share From Mobile Web to Native App Without Javascript?

Question

I am looking to let a reader of my site share the url from a mobile browser to their native facebook app without using javascript, or having them login through the cumbersome web process.

In the past, this was accomplished using the fb://publish/profile/me?text=blah url scheme for both iOS and Android. When clicked, this link would open the native app and start a new share dialog.

Sometime in late 2013/early 2014 though, this method stopped working. Is there a more current way to use a static URL to open up a native share dialog on iOS and/or an Android Intent? A canonical answer is needed here as searching SO leads to a ton of old, deprecated dead ends.

Answer 1

It's crazy that facebook doesn't have the latest URI schemes documented. Whatsapp, twitter, mail, sms, tel all have them available and are working.

Whatsapp:

whatsapp://send?text=Hello%20World!

Twitter:

twitter://post?message=hello%20world!

Mail:

mailto:<address>[?<header1>=<value1>[&<header2>=<value2>]]

SMS:

sms:+15105550101?body=hello%20there

Tel:

tel:<phonenumber>

I've been researching methods of HTML5 interaction with phone features (intents), maybe there is a way to open the mobile phone share menu from a web url? This would allow the user to share an article, per say, with any native app if installed (fb, twitter, etc...)

Answer 2

I don't know if you've come across this thread, but the guy seems like did some reverse engineering and has a full list of all Facebook custom URL schemes