Introduction

The Open Graph protocol

enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. For instance, this is used on

Facebook

to allow any web page to have the same functionality as any other object on Facebook. While many different technologies and schemas exist and could be combined together, there isn't a single

technology

which provides enough information to richly represent any web page within the social graph. The

Open Graph protocol builds on these existing technologies and gives developers one thing to implement.

Developer simplicity is a key goal of the Open Graph protocol which has informed many of the technical design decisions . Basic Metadata To turn your web pages into graph objects, you need to add basic metadata to y