generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins
docs:
  - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins
  - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/javascript
  - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/web/login-button
  - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/embedded-signup
  - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/discovery/facebook-chat-plugin
specification: API Commons Components
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Facebook Business Manager
providerId: facebook-business-manager
description: >-
  Client-side and embeddable surfaces Meta ships alongside the Graph API. All of them load through a single
  loader — the Facebook SDK for JavaScript (connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js) — and render from HTML5 data-*
  attributes or XFBML tags. Distinct from the Business SDKs in packages/, which are server-side API clients.
  This family is contracting: Meta discontinued a subset of Social Plugins on 2026-02-10 with no replacement.
loaders:
  - name: Facebook SDK for JavaScript
    url: https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js
    docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/javascript
    versioned: true
    version_mechanism: >-
      FB.init({ appId, version: 'v26.0' }) — the version set here is prepended to every FB.api() call and to
      any Login dialog the SDK opens.
    note: >-
      The documented script URL carries no version pin, so the loader itself floats to whatever Meta serves.
      Only the API version passed to FB.init is pinnable. Framework how-tos published for AngularJS, jQuery
      and RequireJS.
families:
  - name: Social Plugins
    docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins
    status: partially discontinued
    discontinued_date: '2026-02-10'
    discontinuation_note: >-
      VERBATIM POSTURE FROM THE DOCS: no replacement plugins are being provided; the February 10, 2026 date
      was final; notice was two developer alerts (three months out, then one week out). Removed plugins
      degrade to invisible elements rather than breaking the host page.
    components:
      - name: Share Button
        status: available
        docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/share-button
        description: Share content to Facebook, with friends, with a group, or in a private message.
      - name: Page Plugin
        status: available
        docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/page-plugin
        description: Embed components of a Facebook Page onto a webpage.
      - name: Embedded Posts
        status: available
        docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/embedded-posts
        description: Add public posts into the content of a webpage.
      - name: Embedded Video & Live Video Player
        status: available
        docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/embedded-video-player
        description: Add public Facebook videos and Facebook live videos to a webpage.
  - name: Login
    docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/web/login-button
    status: available
    components:
      - name: Facebook Login Button
        description: >-
          Prebuilt login element (fb:login-button / .fb-login-button) that runs the OAuth consent flow and
          returns an access token to the page. The entry point to every permission in
          scopes/facebook-business-manager-scopes.yml.
  - name: Business Messaging
    status: available
    components:
      - name: Facebook Chat Plugin
        docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/discovery/facebook-chat-plugin
        description: >-
          Embeds a Messenger conversation with a business Page directly on the business's own website,
          carrying the thread across the site and Messenger.
  - name: Hosted onboarding flows
    status: available
    components:
      - name: WhatsApp Embedded Signup
        docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/embedded-signup
        description: >-
          Meta-hosted, embeddable onboarding flow that lets a solution provider's customers create a WhatsApp
          Business Account, verify a phone number and grant the provider access without leaving the
          provider's own product. A hosted/prebuilt surface rather than a UI widget — the WhatsApp analogue
          of a connect flow.
best_practices: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/best-practices
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com