When do I need fb: app_id or fb: admins administrators?

Question

The document for the facebook button says: "When your web page is a real entity, things like movies, sports teams, celebrities and restaurants use the Open Graph protocol to indicate information about the object."

I add as buttons to blog posts / videos / articles that are not actually entities. Right? So I don't need fb: app_id or fb: admins? But then in step 2 of creating a similar button it says: “Get Open Graph Tags” and when I use Linter to check my similar buttons without fb: admins and fb: app_id I get “fb: admins and fb: app_id: missing tags”.

If it turns out that I need fb: admins and fb: app_id tags, do I need a page like Facebook to find them?

Also it is fb: admins AND fb: app_id or fb: admins OR fb: app_id, I can’t tell if I need both or not.

And on the .facebook / somepage graph it gives id, but what is it? For example: How to get fb: app_id for facebook meta

Answer 1

Including the fb:app_id in the HTML HEAD will allow the Facebook scraper to associate the Open Graph object for this URL with the application. This will allow any administrators of this application to view information about this URL and any social plugins associated with it.

The fb:admins tag is similar, but allows you to simply specify each user identifier that you would like to provide to resolve the above.

You can include any of these tags, or both, depending on how many people you want to administer Insights, etc. Single as fb:admins is pretty much the minimum requirement. The remaining Open Graph tags will still appear when people share and as your URL, however this may cause problems in the future, so please include one of the above.

fb: administrators are defined as follows:
<meta property="fb:admins" content="USER_ID"/>
OR
<meta property="fb:admins" content="USER_ID,USER_ID2,USER_ID3"/>

and fb: app_id like this:
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="APPID"/>

Answer 2

To use the Like button and open the Open Graph on your website, you need an application.

So you need to associate the Like button with fb:app_id

If you want other users to see the administration page of your site on Facebook, you add fb:admins . Therefore, if you are an application developer and website owner, there is no need to add fb:admins

Answer 3

I think the documentation is quite useful!

If you read it again, it says that adding open graph elements to your site will make your site valid as a facebook page and you can post updates for them, etc.

Therefore, I think it depends on you - you can either just have a page without OG elements, which works less, but also less “rewards” for you.

If you use og then set type: blog

Finally: fb:admins or fb:app_id - a list separated by commas or Facebook identifiers of page administrators, or the identifier of a Facebook platform application. At a minimum, enter only your own Facebook identifier.

So just put your own fbid. As a hint, you can easily get this by looking at the url of your profile photo on facebook.