How to programmatically check the "No Thumbnail" check box when posting a link

Question

Our application allows our users to post messages to Facebook. If a users wants to post a link such as http://yahoo.com in a message, an image appears with the link in the post.

When posting a message with a link directly on Facebook, it give you the option to check the "No Thumbnail" box so that the image is not shown. How can I do this programmatically using the graph.facebook.api?

Answer 1

If you just want to post link from your site, then just don't pass other parameters and just pass message field with your link and it'll post only the link without any other fields.

But if you want to post as full message but no thumbnail, then don't pass picture param.

It would be better if you could share your code so we can suggest you the right solution, if the above doesn't help you.

Answer 2

I think you should take a look at this https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/190261237768904 . It was a bug that has now been fixed. It points to an approach where you specify a picture parameter but leave its value empty.