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

Here's how to post a video manually for YOUTUBE and VIMEO (hard to find online). Specifically if you want to have the LINK value pointing to a user's website/blog post where it originates.

                //search for youtube.com and vimeo.com in the 'link' value
                if (preg_match("/youtube.com/", $model->link) || preg_match("/youtu.be/", $model->link)){
                    if (preg_match('%(?:youtube\.com/(?:[^/]+/.+/|(?:v|e(?:mbed)?)/|.*[?&]v=)|youtu\.be/)([^"&?/ ]{11})%i', $model->link, $match))
                    {
                        $video_code = $match[1];
                    }
                   $source = 'http://www.youtube.com/e/'.$video_code; 
               $picture = 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$video_code.'/0.jpg';
                }
                else if (preg_match("/vimeo.com/", $model->link))
                {
                    if (preg_match('/vimeo\.com\/(clip\:)?(\d+).*$/', $model->link, $match))
                    {
                        $video_code = $match[2];
                     }
                    /* Get Vimeo thumbnail */
                    $hash = unserialize(file_get_contents("http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/$video_code.php"));
                    $picture = $hash[0]['thumbnail_medium'];  
                    $source = 'https://secure.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id='.$video_code.'&autoplay=1';
                }

                $args = array(
                'message'   => //user's comment
                'name' => //Title of post
                'link'      => 'http://...'//link to video on user's website

                'source' => $source,
                'picture' => $picture,
                );

                if ($this->_facebook->api("/".$this->facebookUserID."/feed", "post", $args)){
                //posted to facebook
                }