Recently Apple has unified its affiliate management by providing links with target "itunes_store' of the kind:
In Arrivo! HD - Rome's and Milan's buses, taxi and metros, and trip sharing for the conscious visitor to the Ethernal city - Fabrizio Bartolomucci
Yet, in order to simplify its management, I would like to call it by means of a meta refresh from a page on my site only I have no hint about how the handle the target thing. The Windows open command just handles standard targets and if I enter 'itunes-store', I get an empty page.
Thanks for your help.
I'm pretty sure you can't specify a target on a meta refresh, but here is some JavaScript that does what you want. Just place this block somewhere on your page.
<script type="text/javascript">
var url = "https://itunes.apple.com/it/app/in-arrivo-hd-i-tempi-di-arrivo/id409812280?mt=8&uo=4&at=11l5Jz%22";
var link = document.createElement('a');
link.setAttribute('href', url);
link.setAttribute('target', 'itunes_store');
link.click();
</script>
Funnily combining your solution with the normal meta refresh does the trick. This is the full code working both on the web, on the iPhone, on Facebook and by the QR code. Great!
<script type="text/javascript">
var url = "itmss://itunes.apple.com/it/app/in-arrivo-hd-i-tempi-di-arrivo/id409812280?mt=8&uo=4&at=11l5Jz%22";
var link = document.createElement('a');
link.setAttribute('href', url);
link.setAttribute('target', 'itunes_store');
link.click();
</script>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/in-arrivo!-hd-romes-milans/id409812280?mt=8&uo=4">
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I use Muse and I want to be able to share the current URL dynamically. I have achieved this with Facebook and Twitter. However Google Plus is still evading me.
This is the JS code I have been working with.
<script language="javascript">
function gplussharecurrentpage() {
sharelink = "https://plus.google.com/share?url={URL}"+url;
newwindow=window.open(sharelink,'name','height=400,width=600');
if (window.focus) {newwindow.focus()}
return false;
}
var url="www.google.co.uk";
googleplusbtn(url);
</script>
I have a button linked to activate the script however it comes back with a this link is not valid.
Any ideas?
I just switched my site over to SSL and all of my social sharing button counts have reset to zero, which is expected, but apparently it's possible to tell those buttons to use the old http urls in order to bring back the old counts.
I just can't figure out how to do it for my setup, which is AddThis for the buttons and Php/Html for the code (Joomla actually, but that may be irrelevant).
The AddThis code is simple:
<div class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="THE URL"></div>
So my best guess is that I need to take the current URL, change it from https to http, and plug it into the above 'data-url'.
But looking at other threads here, there seems to be a lot of controversy about how to securely and correctly get the current URL, so that's where I'm getting stuck.
(And then on top of that, I'll need to make this switch only for past articles, not new ones, but that's another story.)
Any ideas?
Thanks very much,
Phil
The share counts are based off of the exact URL and unfortunately, the APIs for each of the sharing services (Facebook, Pinterest, etc.) treat the protocols as distinct URLs.
The only thing you could do prevent losing the share counts from existing URLs would be to set override the shared URL to be the old HTTP URL.
Then, you'd need to setup a 301 redirect on your site to redirect the visitor from the old URL to the new HTTPS URL after a visitor clicks the old URL from a shared link on Facebook (or any other service).
It looks like you already found the instructions for changing the URL that's shared (http://www.addthis.com/academy/setting-the-url-title-to-share/), so you would just set the data-url attribute to be the old (HTTP) URL.
Took me all day, but I finally figured this out! This gave me a lot of the answer, but I still had trouble tweaking it for AddThis.
Here's the code (the first line applies the fix only to articles published before Aug 1, 2016, because I don't need to make the change for newer articles):
<?php if (strtotime($this->item->publish_up) < 1470009600) : ?>
<script type="text/javascript">
function buttons(){
var kCanonical = document.querySelector("link[rel='canonical']").href;
window.kCompositeSlug = kCanonical.replace('https://','http://');
return;
}
buttons();
var addthis_share = { url: ''+kCompositeSlug+'' };
</script>
<?php endif; ?>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ID-GOES-HERE" async="async"></script>
Here is my code that worked on a client's Joomla / K2 site, this is part of my item template override:
<?php if (strtotime($this->item->publish_up) < 1503201600) : ?>
<!-- Non SSL Command for buttons here -->
<div class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-app-id='YOURAPPIDHERE' data-link='http://www.yoursite.com<?php echo $this->item->link; ?>'></div>
<?php else: ?>
<!-- Regular SSL Command for buttons here -->
<div class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-app-id='YOURAPPIDHERE'></div>
<?php endif; ?>
Details / analysis of solution here:
https://www.covingtoncreations.com/blog/solution-for-lost-share-count-after-moving-to-ssl-https
Does it work on a Joomla website which uses Sharethis not AddThis ?
Currently I have the following code in the
<script type="text/javascript">var switchTo5x=true;</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ws.sharethis.com/button/buttons.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">stLight.options({publisher: "XXXXXXXXXXXX", doNotHash: false, doNotCopy: false, hashAddressBar: false});</script>
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="XXXXXXXXXXXX"/>
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=XXXXXXXXXXXX=v2.0";
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>
I want to use the Google Translate API in eclipse and I've checked the Google API website, but there isn't any sample code for the Google Translate API in Java. Can someone provide some and explain how to get started. I have already read the documentation on this API.
https://cloud.google.com/translate/v2/quickstart#JSONP
<html>
<head>
<title>Translate API Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="sourceText">Hello world</div>
<div id="translation"></div>
<script>
function translateText(response) {
document.getElementById("translation").innerHTML += "<br>" + response.data.translations[0].translatedText;
}
</script>
<script>
var newScript = document.createElement('script');
newScript.type = 'text/javascript';
var sourceText = escape(document.getElementById("sourceText").innerHTML);
// WARNING: Your API key will be visible in the page source.
// To prevent misuse, restrict your key to designated domains or use a
// proxy to hide your key.
var source = 'https://www.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=YOUR_API_KEY&source=en&target=de&callback=translateText&q=' + sourceText;
newScript.src = source;
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(newScript);
</script>
</body>
</html>
The Google Client Libraries are now the recommended APIs to use. You can now find Java specific Translation API Client Library examples in the documentation.
To report any issues with the new Java specific Client Libraries, you can directly file an issue on the GitHub Issue tracker.
you can installe this package for laravel
https://packagist.org/packages/charef/free-translate-api
I try to add a Google+ button to my page. The button itself works, but the text and the image are always empty. I annotated my body and some elements with the schema.org tags, but it is not working. What am I doing wrong here?
<body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article">
<div itemprop="name">This is the article name</div>
<img itemprop="image" src="thumbnail.jpg" />
<p itemprop="description">This is the description of the article.</p>
<g:plus action="share" href="testUrl"></g:plus>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.___gcfg = {
lang: 'en-US'
};
(function() {
var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true;
po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);
})();
</script>
</body>
You can debug what microdata is getting parsed by using the Google Structured Data Testing Tool. This can help you to understand what Google is seeing on your microdata annotations.
Try removing the URL from your share / +1. The target Url will fallback to the current page, which I'm assuming is you want people to share.
If that's not the problem, there are a few other things that might help:
Your snippet:
Did you use the Google+ Snippet generator? It tends to work pretty well. Also, if you have a complex page, it can help to use meta tags in the <header> section to begin with for debugging.
Proxies:
Which brings me to the next point, if there is a proxy blocking your page or security that prevents people from accessing it, that will block the share preview renderer. Make sure your page (share target) is publicly accessible.
Another possibility: if your page is cached in your server's proxy, this will prevent the page from being updated by the share preview renderer.
If you add an anchor link or query string to the end of the url, e.g. foo.com/index.html vs foo.com/index.html#test vs foo.com/index.html?test=yes it should ensure that a cached version without microdata will be included.
It might be the href attribute on your g:plus tag. Instead, change it to data-href.
I'm sorry, I have searched for a day and a half but I can't find the specific answer I'm looking for.
My Facebook Like button doesn't appear on IE, Chrome or Firefox. I am using Javascript.
I have the required HTML addition.
I need to put in the Meta Tag
meta property="og:tag name" content="tag value"
COULD I GET AN EXAMPLE FOR THE "TAG NAME" AND "TAG VALUE"?
I don't know what to fill in!
I am supposed to have the Javascript SDK right after the body; however, I don't know what to put for an APP_ID as in:
<script>
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
FB.init({
appId : 'YOUR_APP_ID', // App ID
//CAN I GET AN EXAMPLE OF YOUR_APP_ID, please?
channelUrl : '//WWW.YOUR_DOMAIN.COM/channel.html', // Channel File
//is channel.html the page it's on?
status : true, // check login status
cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session
xfbml : true // parse XFBML
});
// Additional initialization code here
};
// Load the SDK Asynchronously
(function(d){
var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk', ref = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js";
ref.parentNode.insertBefore(js, ref);
}(document));
</script>
I am getting so frustrated! Please help me!
The YOUR_APP_ID is the ID of your Facebook Application. If you haven't created a App, you can do so here.
However, you don't need to use an app to use the Like Button plugin. You should be able to use the Plugin just by copy-and-pasting the plugin code from the developer website. If that doesn't work, use the debug tool to see what's going wrong.
Well, I recommend you to read more carefully the documentation of the Facebook's JS SDK, but also the "Getting Started" and the "Core Concepts". There you will find a lot of very useful information.
I'll try to explain what the App_id is. When you want to do some more funcional applications, that interact with user information from facebook, you need to create a Facebook's app. To do that log into your account and go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps. There you need to tell your app's name, URL, and some other things. When you save you'll see an app_id, that is an unique number that identifies your app on Facebook. Is this number that you have to put in your script (surrounded by quotes, don't forget).
The channel file is a single line html file that you have to put in your server, at the same domain of your app. The content of this file is:
<script src="//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js"></script>
Replace the "en_US" by your app locale.
You questioned about the meta tags of the OpenGraph. Well, when you click "like" for a URL, the Facebook-bot navigates to your page and reads the meta information. When it finds OpenGraph meta tags, the information posted at the user wall is more personalized. You'll have to spent a little time to understand more what kind of OpenGraph meta tags you will need, once every site has different information to share.