Facebook Graph Feed Post Not Including Message

Question

I have the following snippet to post to a user's feed on Facebook:

require 'httparty'

token = "..."
message = "..."
url = URI.escape("https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed?access_token=#{token}")
response = HTTParty.post(url, body: { message: message })

This posts to the wall, but no message is included. Any ideas what's wrong?

Edit:

I tried changing out the message for a caption or description and both failed as well.

Facebook plans to deprecate the message on July 12th, 2011. I know the date hasn't past yet but looking for an alternative is hopefully useful like description or caption. — xanderer
@xanderer I tried switching the form post to use a caption and a description and both failed. Any other ideas? — Kevin Sylvestre
I usually use Javascript SDK to post to wall, but have you tried appending it to the query string as seen here — xanderer

Kevin Sylvestre Kevin Sylvestre · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-28T18:00:04

Solution is to change HTTParty from using body to query for posting form data:

require 'httparty'

token = "..."
message = "..."
url = URI.escape("https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed?access_token=#{token}")
response = HTTParty.post(url, query: { message: message })

Facebook Graph Feed Post Not Including Message

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