Facebook page automatically “likes” the URL (for a QR code)

Question

I was wondering if it's possible to create a URL that will automatically appeal to your Facebook page. This URL can then be converted into a QR code so that people can automatically “love” your page while reading it with their smartphone.

I searched a lot, but all I could find were commercial services such as Spotlike , Likify , Social QR Code , etc. I do not want a solution that relies on such commercial services.

I'm starting to suspect that Facebook did not allow this opportunity for obvious reasons (abuse and the like). Nevertheless, I was hoping that this could be done one way or another, even by creating my own intermediary service. In the latter case, what will be mainly required to create such a service?

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EDIT:

I already tried this URL: http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://facebook.com/interlinkONE

This URL (also when it was encoded as a QR code) did not actually give the desired result on the iPhone, as it showed a blank page with a small “similar” button that was barely visible. In addition, it did not work, even when I tried to press the “how” button.

Source: http://qreateandtrack.com/2010/10/18/how-to-create-qr-codes-for-the-facebook-like-button/

Answer 1

I am not a lawyer, but clicking the button without the express permission of the facebook user may be a violation of facebook policy. You need your corporate lawyer to review the facebook policy.

You must encode the URL on a page with a similar button, so when scanning by phone, it opens a browser window on a similar page, where the user can now like it or not.

Answer 2

In my opinion, this is not possible for a similar button (and I hope it is impossible).

But you can run the custom OpenGraph v2 action or display a similar button associated with your facebook page.

Answer 3

Have you tried using the fb: // protocol?

To make them look like your page when scanning the qr code, it looks like this:

fb://page/(pageID)/addfan 

If you need to get the page ID, replace “www” with “graph” in the Facebook URL when you go to the page in your desktop browser and display the ID and other data.

This not only adds them automatically, but also opens a page in the FB application instead of a mobile browser.

Regarding legality, I would suggest that as long as you put something like “Crawl like our page”, you are explicitly. They know what they are falling into.

Answer 4

For hyperlink just use www.facebook.com/++page ID++/like

For example: www.facebook.com/MYPAGEISAWESOME/like

To make it work with m.facebook.com here, what do you do:

Open the Facebook page you are looking for, then change the URL to the mobile URL ( www.m.facebook.com/MYPAGEISAWESOME ).

You should now see a large version of the Facebook mobile page. Copy the destination URL of a similar button.

Put this URL in the QR generator to make the barcode scan. This will open the m.Facebook page in the browser of most mobile phones directly from the QR reader. If they are not logged into Facebook, they will be prompted to log in, and then click “like.” If you are logged in, it will be automatic.

Hope this helps!

Also, be sure to include something with "click here / scan here to like us on Facebook"

Answer 5

The answers above seem partly outdated.

The url constructor on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button/ worked fine for me.

You can configure, view and get the code / URL in different versions: HTML5, XFBML, IFRAME, URL

Answer 6

This has changed, now now fb: // profile / (profileID)