FB.ui feed dialog is "ignoring" the picture attribute, using cached og:image tag instead

Question

Here's my FB.ui code:

FB.ui({ 
  method: 'feed', 
  message: '', 
  link: 'http://mywebaddress/pathToContent', 
  picture: 'http://mywebaddress/pathToPhoto/photo.jpg', 
  display: 'popup'
});

The dialog pops up perfectly, it has the link so no problem... but the picture doesn't show.

I have verified the picture URL is correct. Then I have used the Debugger to test the content URL's open graph tags: it runs flawlessly.

Apparently, the debugger clears some sort of caching. After I use the debugger on the link, the FB.ui dialog shows the picture just fine.

Is there something I can do about this? The content that users are sharing from my site to Facebook isn't showing the picture like it should, making it a bit annoying for them to use (which is never a good thing!)

Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to change the og:image in the source of the shared url instead. The picture parameter is deprecated: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/feed-dialog/#response