Action Links

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An action link is a short string of text that accompanies a Feed story and invites the user to take some action related to that story. An action link is a hyperlink to a URL on Facebook or your website or another third-party website. Feed stories can contain only one action link with a max of 25 characters.

Placement of the action link depends on the story size and whether or not the story has comments.

[edit] Formatting an Action Link

You specify your action link in a JSON-encoded array, like this:

array(array('text' => 'Buy {*song*}', 'href' => 'http://www.onlinemusicsite.com/{*song-path*}') )


When using the JavaScript Client Library (for Facebook Connect and IFrame applications), format the array like this:

var actionLinks = [{ "text": "Watch Video", "href": "http://www.myvideosite/videopage.html"}];


You include this array in the action_links parameter when you call the stream publishing methods:

[edit] Action Link Guidelines

Please read and follow the guidelines and policies for action links.

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