Web Sharing Flickr photos on Facebook

Discussion in 'Photography, Art & Design' started by Silver51, 12 Aug 2012.

  1. Silver51

    Silver51 I cast flare!

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    So, yeah, signed up for a Facebook account partly so the more nomadic members of our family can easily keep in touch and partly as another way of sharing photos.

    However, when I click the Facebook link above an image, a window appears with the message "An error occurred. Please try again later." Tried again later and still nothing, so I'm guessing it's a basic 503 or bad request message.

    Is there a way of manually putting code (HTML/IMG) into a status update (or whatever you call the little text boxy thing) to link a Flickr photo so people can both see it and click through back to Flickr?

    The Flickr FAQ has a bunch of error codes related to linking Flickr updates to Facebook, but I just want to share a few individual pictures, not spam every update.
     
  2. Silver51

    Silver51 I cast flare!

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    Sorted, kind of.

    You can link the accounts from Flickr's settings menu. It then posts a thumbnail of a single image from a batch upload to Facebook. The share buttons are still borked though.
     

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