Google Plus – How to Share a Link and Content Using a URL

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Is there any way I can share content and the link to the content to Google+ the way Facebook does, using just an URL?

With Facebook feed dialog, I can share content title, description and the URL. Is that possible with Google Plus? I did some searching and only found sharing of URL. 

https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?
  app_id=458358780877780&
  link=https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/&
  picture=http://fbrell.com/f8.jpg&
  name=Facebook%20Dialogs&
  caption=Reference%20Documentation&
  description=Using%20Dialogs%20to%20interact%20with%20users.&
  redirect_uri=https://mighty-lowlands-6381.herokuapp.com/

Best Answer

You can use the Google+ Share Link

The share link is intended for native client applications, Flash applications, highly privacy-sensitive sites, and others who may not be able to use the +1 or share button. Adding the following markup to your site will include a simple icon which will pop open a share dialog for your visitors.

<a href="https://plus.google.com/share?url={URL}" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-64.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a>

Note: Replace {URL} with the URL of the page you want to share. You must properly escape any user-generated content that may occur within {URL}

If you just want a raw link, you can just use 

https://plus.google.com/share?url={URL}

Just make sure you properly escape the "{URL}" value.

The only other thing you can add besides the URL to share is the language code for the language to be used on the share page.

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