Can someone identify ONE WEB PAGE where <meta property="og:audio:artist"> and <meta property="og:audio:album"> are actually working to set the Artist and Album when sharing the URL of the page?
I have been banging away at http://www.coises.com/songs/sfcarol.htm for hours, trying every permutation of order of META tags, XML tag formats (even though it’s an HTML page), etc. (Note: though I have a home-grown share button on the page, I’m talking about sharing the URL of the page in the status box on Facebook itself as the test case.)
All I can get is that all words in the title are capitalized, even though it isn’t specified that way, and the Artist and Album are always Unknown. (For another song/page, "8/9/95", even the title won’t show.) The description also doesn’t show when doing the share, though it does show in the posted story.
I tried searching, and I tried places like ReverbNation and SoundCloud, but nobody seems to use the og:audio tags. (For videos, copying the way YouTube does it appears to work perfectly, http://www.coises.com/songs/risingup.htm being an example.) If I could see just one working example, I suspect I could figure it out.
My own song pages (e.g., http://www.coises.com/songs/floodplain.htm and most other song pages on my site) are now working examples.
It turns out the problem was simple: og:audio:artist and og:audio:album do not work unless og:audio:title is also supplied. I had assumed that would default to og:title; it seems it must be explicitly specified.
The linter still says the og:audio:{title|artist|album} tags are not allowed, but they work.
Those OG tags still seem to be in beta. below I've included the linter results for five different websites that facebook is in partnership with.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fmog.com%2Fm%2Ftrack%2F57587005
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deezer.com%2Fmusic%2Ftrack%2F6461440
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rhapsody.com%2Fartist%2Ftrombone-shorty%2Falbum%2Ffor-true
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vevo.com%2Fwatch%2Fj-cole-featuring-trey-songz-j-cole-1%2Fcant-get-enough%2FUSQX91101318
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Ftrack%2F3ssX20QT5c3nA9wk78V1LQ
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Sorry, this is a bad question. I don't even know what the title should be. I'm a total noob at making websites so this might be easy to find but I just don't know the terminology to search for. I cannot find anything about how to do this...
What I want to do is have something like references/variables that I can use in a block of text and it will automatically get replaced with whatever value should be there. Best way I can think of to describe it would be if I was using the site as a design doc for a game or something, I would be able to type in [Title] or something similar on any page and when it loads that text would be replaced with whatever my Title is. That way If I ever change titles, names, classes, races, places, items, etc... they would only have to be changed in 1 place and the change would be reflected everywhere.
I notice if I add a link to a page it will automatically use the Title of that page as the text of the link. That is almost exactly what I want. Except when I change the Title of the other page the text of the link remains as the original text. It doesn't get updated to the new Title and that is not at all what I want.
Also, I want to do this in Google Sites and as simply as possible. I don't really want to use a database. I was hoping Google Sites would have some kind of funcionality for this.
I don't believe this is possible (on Google Sites) and likely you need to consider a hosted solution.
Quoting the answer from this relevant post:
You should consider hosting your solution using Google's App Engine
instead of Google Sites. You can set it up so it uses PHP (see link
below), you can configure it to use your domain name and you get
enough CPU, disk and bandwidth allowance to serve around five million
page views for free each month, if you are serving more than that,
their prices are extremely competitive.
Google App Engine:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html How
to setup PHP using Google App Engine: http://blog.caucho.com/?p=187
Also I'm not sure how your PHP skills are but if you're unfamiliar with it then this should help to get you started.
I'm playing with the spotify play button and try to make it display an arbitrary set of tracks, that I'm giving as a comma-separated list of IDs.
It works well most of the time, but it can happen that the button is not properly rendered, and displays the Spotify Developer Page instead, like shown here: http://xben.free.fr/spotify/
I feel like it happens when using an important number of tracks (more than 80).
Has one of you experienced the same problem, or know if there is a limitation? I went through the doc and it only mentions a 1000 tracks restriction when using an existing playlist.
Yes, it is known limitation that trackset uris can not be longer than around 80 tracks (depending on your trackset title).
The reasoning for the arbitrary limit goes something like this: It is the longest possible url that you can send to older IE browsers. We want it to work the same across all browsers. If it doesn't work in one, it shouldn't work in the others either.
Two problems however.
The way it is implemented, just setting suhosin.get.max_value_length = 2048 in php conf. If it is too big, suhosin will just drop the parameter, making the request look like https://embed.spotify.com which will redirect to the developer site. Not the best of error messages. We will fix.
The limit should be documented. We will fix. Maybe even raise the limit and tell people to be vary of certain browsers.
(I work at Spotify)
I don't think it's possible from what I've read, but wanted to see if anyone else was in a similar situation and found a more elegent solution to this problem.
Basically I have a site I am building, nothing fancy, which consists of a header section, and then one big iframe to display the content of the page in.
I know, I know, iframe are generally looked upon with displeasure, but for my needs, it works wonders.
My issue, is that in the header of the page, I have a simple google search box (basically just an html form), and have set the target as my iframe.
Obviously when searching for anything, the results should show up in the iframe, however, all i get is a message saying this content can't be displayed in an iframe. This makes sense and im sure it is of googles design not to allow this kind of practice.
For me, this would be the most ideal situation, and was wondering if anyone knew of a way to display the search results within my iframe?
I have also looked at possibly displaying a lightbox, or similar popup box, with an ajax request to display the google page, but have thusfar been unsuccessful.
You won't be able to use any kind of frame anymore as Google obviously put an end to that by blocking frames altogether. Your only solution is to use the custom search API and then parse and display the results yourself.
I have seen many somewhat similar questions, but nothing quite what I'm looking for. So at the risk of being told this is a duplicate... here it goes.
I've found that there are times I have a node that simply contains content that will be displayed somewhere else, but shouldn't be viewed directly. That is, no one should ever go to node/1234, but the content in node 1234 should be displayed somewhere else.
For example, I create an about page with tabbed content using views. So there are "About Me", "About Us" and "About Them" pages. All of these are displayed in a single page with tabs using Views. So I don't want people to get directly to the "About Us" node because then they wouldn't see the tabs for the other pages. At the same time, I don't want Google giving people a direct link to this node, I want to limit access so users can only get to it through the View (i.e., the tab).
So I need to restrict access to the node, remove it from the Drupal search results, and make sure Google doesn't pick up on it. Any suggestions?
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I've accepted the answer from mingos (thanks btw) because even though it's not a full answer / solution, it gave me some good things to think about. Additional answers are still welcome.
In Drupal 7 you can use: http://drupal.org/project/internal_nodes
Description: Some content/nodes should never be viewed directly; only visible be through something else such as Views or Panels. This module denies access to node/[nid] URLs while allowing the content to stay published and otherwise viewable.
Full disclosure: I am the creator and co-maintainer of Internal Nodes. I found this question while searching to see how the module could be found on Google.
Tough one.
If you want to have many nodes like this and do the "displaying elsewhere" dynamically, I can't think of anything right now (at 2:20 AM I rarely can).
If there is onne such page (or very few), I'd restrict access to it by any available means (Permissions, Nodeaccess, Content Access, TAC, whatever) and then create special themes for the pages where the restricted content should be displayed. The themes would contain database queries, fetching content from the restricted nodes.
Other possibility might include creating a special theme for the hidden nodes in question (perhaps all belonging to the same content type?). Make full node display nothing (or a message saying the access is restricted) and add a ROBOTS meta tag asking Google not to index the page. Make the teaser view available though - you can display it freely inside a view, but since /node/1234 is the FULL view, the actual content will be unavailable here.
Dunno if this solves your problem, hope it helps at least a bit.
I found this page after running into this same problem.
What I found worked for me might be part of the answer you need:
Take a look at the Page Manager Redirect Module http://drupal.org/project/page_manager_redirect . I just started playing with it.
It uses the Page Manager module of CTools to redirect one page to another. What makes this most powerful is that Page Manager uses Contexts. So, if you want to redirect all pages of a particular content type, you can do so.
I just started to use it (instead of Taxonomy Redirect and Path Redirect) to redirect (301 response code) my taxonomy terms for a particular vocabulary to particular nodes.
In your instance, you should be able to use contexts to filter for specific pages.
Of course this doesn't solve the problem of these nodes coming up in search results.
There is also another module Rabbit Hole which has a similar functionality like Internal Nodes but works for all entities, not only nodes.
I am having the same problem, and are currently thinking of the following solution where all the content of a node is to be displayed to certain users (permission based):
- unpublish node
- create a new published checkbox
- create a view with fields that shows alle the content
Haven't tested it thoroughly yet, but it seems to work.
The node is to be displayed to the creator (only one in permission 1), some of it to permission 2 and all of it to permission 3.
Any comments on this solution.
I assume this will also exclude it from search, but permission 2 and 3 needs to be able to search it. Still haven't figured that one out.
I used Rules module with an "entity is of bundle" and the built-in "Page redirect" action.
There is a really easy way to do this if you only want to show a content type through a view.
create a content type as and make it unpublished.
create a view and on the filter option set the filter to "Content: Published (No)"
the view will give anon users access to the content through the view but they won't have access to the unpublished content at the direct link to the content.
I have a list of URLs and am trying to collect their "descriptions." By description I mean what comes up, for example, if you Googled the link. For example, http://stackoverflow.com">Google: http://stackoverflow.com shows the description as
A language-independent collaboratively
edited question and answer site for
programmers. Questions and answers
displayed by user votes and tags.
This the data I'm trying to accumulate for the URLs I have.
I tried parsing the URL's meta-descriptions, however most of them are lacking a meta-description (yet Google and other search engines manage to get a description somehow).
Any ideas? Should I just "google" each link and scrape the data? I have a feeling Google wouldn't like this...
Thanks guys.
Different search engines have different algorithms to get the description out of the page if/when they are lacking the description meta tag. Some ignore the tag even it it's there.
If you want the description Google has, the most accurate way to get it would be to scrape it. Otherwise, you could write your own or look around on the web for code that does it.
These are called snippets.
Google use proprietary (and possibly patented) methods to garner this information, so there is no simple answer.
As you suggest, they will use meta-description information if it is there. (How to set the meta-information to help Google.)
They will also honour requests from the page authors to NOT include snippets. (How to prevent Google from displaying snippets) You should probably respect this too (as well as robots.txt, of course.)
You may have some luck with existing auto-summary packages, such as OTS.
You may want to check AboutUs.org (i.e. http://www.aboutus.org/StackOverflow.com).
But, there's little chance that the site will have an aboutus page and not have a meta description.
Some info that might explain how google does this:
Webmasters/Site owners Help
Adding a URL to google
I am not familiar with Google APIs, but perhaps there is an official way to get such information.
Interesting. some sources are better than others.
For "audiotuts.com" google has a worse description than AboutUs.com.
Google
Nov 18th in General by Joel Falconer ·
1. Recently, an AUDIOTUTS reader asked me about creative process. While this
is a topic that can’t be made into a
...
AboutUs.com:
AUDIOTUTS is a blog/tutorial site for
musicians, producers and audio
junkies! It is the sister site of the
popular PSDTUTS, VECTORTUTS and
NETTUTS.
I hate problems like these... they should be trivial but they aren't!
If you can assume English content, you can first look for Meta Description, and if that doesn't work, you can look for the first two or three sentence-like word sequences.
A product I worked on looked for the first P or DIV that contained more than one sequence of > n "words" delimited by periods. It would use the two or three sentence-like sequences, up to x total words, as a summary paragraph. It wasn't 100% accurate, but good enough for the average case. The number of words was adjusted a few times to eliminate things like navigation elements.