Posting an embedded video link using the Facebook Graph API

Question

When manually attaching a video link (from YouTube, Vimeo, etc) to a post using the Facebook web interface, Facebook automatically recognizes the link as a video, and allows

Answer 1

It appears that you have to extract the URLs of the actual swf in the page and the thumbnail image yourself. For example, this seems to work:

curl -F 'access_token=...' \
     -F 'message=Link to YouTube' \
     -F 'link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aICB2mUu2k' \
     -F 'source=http://www.youtube.com/v/3aICB2mUu2k' \
     -F 'picture=http://img.youtube.com/vi/3aICB2mUu2k/0.jpg' \
     https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed

It appears that you can generate a valid source and picture from the page URL. The URL looks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=; take the code (3aICB2mUu2k here) and insert it into the URLs http://www.youtube.com/e/ for the source and and http://img.youtube.com/vi//0.jpg for the picture.