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

Sharing as a link with /links instead of /feed seems to work better. YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook videos are embedded as if posting manually.

curl -F 'access_token=...' \
     -F 'message=Link to YouTube' \
     -F 'link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aICB2mUu2k' \
     https://graph.facebook.com/me/links