Instant Articles not being recognized

[dsbrianwebster]

I really really really want this method to work, it was so simple and intuitive to set up. WAY better than the RSS or API methods. But it seems that FB is simply not ingesting the articles.

I have included the appropriate fb:pages and ia:rules_url to the article pages, tried sharing articles, but alas can not get any to register as Instant articles.

Documentation is lacking around the web for the ia:rules_url method. Are there steps I'm missing? Does this method for sure work? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[dsbrianwebster]

☝️quiet on this project. Is it still being maintained? @diegoquinteiro @pestevez

[pestevez]

Hi @dsbrianwebster - apologies for the delayed response. Yes, we are still maintaining this repo but it took us some time (more than we hoped) to get back to it.

Regarding your question of how to make it work. Assuming that your page has Instant Articles already enabled, the moment the Instant Articles are created is when the Facebook Crawler fetches the contents of a given URL and finds the tag. For recent content, it is expected that the crawler will visit the URL with some frequency, but it goes down as time passes by.

The documentation is here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instant-articles/crawler-ingestion/

You can trigger a manual rescrape using the Sharing Debugger or via the Graph API for content that you already created. For new content it should not be an issue.

Since it's been a while, it is likely that you already figured all this out. I am closing the issue now but feel free to reopen it if needed.