Facebook Instant Articles are a fast and interactive experience for reading articles in a Facebook News Feed. Instant Articles can be published directly from a content management system (using the Instant Articles API) or by providing an RSS feed. Instant Articles display as much as ten times faster than standard mobile web articles. When a friend or page you follow shares a link in your News Feed, Facebook will check to see if there is an Instant Article associated with that URL. If so, Facebook will display it as an Instant Article. If not, it will open in the web browser.
Brightcove Players that are embedded in Instant Article continue to support:
Note that while analytics will be collected by Brightcove, the display domain recorded in analytics will be a brightcove.com
domain, not a facebook.com
domain.
While different types of content can be shared using Instant Articles, this topic covers sharing Brightcove Players in Instant Article pages. For complete information on Instant Articles, see the Facebook documentation.
No changes to the player properties are needed to use it in an Instant Article. Follow these steps to generate the player embed code for an Instant Article:
<figure>
element.
<figure> <iframe src="//players.brightcove.net/1486906377/V1ziujO35l_default/index.html?videoId=3766858011001" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen width="640" height="360"></iframe> </figure>
op-interactive
class to the figure
tag.
<figure class="op-interactive"> <iframe src="//players.brightcove.net/1486906377/V1ziujO35l_default/index.html?videoId=3766858011001" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen width="640" height="360"></iframe> </figure>
width
and height
. The width
and height
set the aspect ratio rather than the absolute size of the player. The finished code will look like this:
<figure class="op-interactive"> <iframe src="//players.brightcove.net/1486906377/V1ziujO35l_default/index.html?videoId=3766858011001" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen width="16" height="9"></iframe> </figure>