How do I add AddThis sharing to a Flash website or widget?

From inside your Flash asset, you'll need to create buttons that invoke sharing to a given service such as Facebook and Twitter. Link these buttons to our sharing endpoints for each particular destination (described here). For example, the following link can share a YouTube player to Facebook:

http://api.addthis.com/oexchange/0.8/forward/facebook/offer?url=http://www.addthis.com 
&title=Addthis%20Video 
&swfurl=http://www.youtube.com/v/1F7DKyFt5pY&hl=en&fs=1 
&screenshot=http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/1F7DKyFt5pY/default.jpg 
&height=560 
&width=340 

We highly recommend pointing your URL to an HTML page containing meta tags that describe the Flash content, instead of just specifying it on the call; this is also a best practice for sites like Facebook, search engines, and more.

If you don't want to write the Flash code to do all of this, take a look at our Flash Example Code. We offer both a low-level sharing API as well as a full Flash-native sharing menu.

For more information, please refer to the documentation on Installing AddThis in Flash, the Sharing Endpoints, and the Sharing Embedded Content guide.

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