So my company needs to fetch Post from a public given page on facebook (and Hashtags on Instagram if possible) but to do that we need Page Public Content Access on the facebook API. And it is a pain to obtain that permission (it takes way too long).
So i was searching to see if there is an App that can provide that without any verification, we just pay and we are good to go. But i couldn't find any. I just found some "Aggregator" like https://curator.io/. The App that was the closest to my demand was https://taggbox.com/ because it has an API and you can fetch public post with it but it's not its main role, and their API is really small.
So i was wondering if any of you know an Api (it can be a paying app) that would provide posts from public pages on facebook (And it would be great if that API also had Hashtags and accounts on Instagram).
We just don't want to deal with Facebook permission and verification system.
Thanks !
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I am planning to use Facebook feeds from some public pages which don't belong to me. For example WHO Facebook page. I am planning to use these posts from multiple pages and show on a website. My question is, whether this is even possible with all kind of crazy security policies in place? Since Facebook is allowing to embed public posts, I am assuming we can achieve this somehow. If I have to create page/app myself and get it reviewed by Facebook, anyone got any link on how to get this done?
Facebook recently introduced Instagram Graph API, which allows to fetch data from Instagram page that is connected to your Facebook company page, instagram.com/developers states:
The Instagram Graph API is Now Available to All Developers.
For Non-Business Instagram Accounts please continue to use the existing Instagram API.
So, for example, if my company has account instagram.com/my_first_company, I can only retrieve its feed and no one else.
Using old Instagram API to retrieve public_content permission (access to any feed) is no longer an option too, from old API documetation:
public_content - to read any public profile info and media on a user’s
behalf (applications no longer accepted)
What will happen to existing tools that have public_content permission? (for example, there are tons of plugins for various CMS that allow to display recent Instagram photos)
Is there any valid way to access public_content (access to any feed) right now (besides fetching HTML pages of Instagram website)?
Are there any plans to enable Graph API for non-business customers, of so when?
UPD. There seem to be ?__a=1 endpoint that allows to get access to recent photos of any public feed without any tokens. But it's not official and no one knows when/if Instagram will close it. If you do - please let me know.
UPD 2. Instagram removed ?__a=1 endpoint, not sure for how long, probably forever. Currently the only way to access instagram feed is to scrap instagram.com website, which is a horror.
Prerequisite: You first need the business Instagram account to be linked with FB Page. https://help.instagram.com/356902681064399 - That one can do from the profile page of Instagram account.
Get the Instagram business account id:
graph.facebook.com/v2.8/<fbPageId>?fields=instagram_business_account. (the fbPageId is the page id of the facebook page the account is linked)
To fetch instagram media feed: graph.facebook.com/v2.8/<igBusinessId>/media to fetch the media feed of the Instagram account. (the igBusinessId is the id returned in above linked instagram_business_account) - This is still owned media as per the page access_token. Not any other user's feed.
All other endpoints (such as comments moderation, detailed insights API) mentioned here works on the business media list returned on above call.
Please note:
This still does not allow to fetch un-authenticated user's Instagram feed. That is not possible via API now. There is no valid way via API to get to public_content scope. There can be few Instagram Marketing partners for which this is enabled. But, in general the scope is deprecated now!
Currently, for FB graph API to work we need linked business page to Instagram account. As above apis uses page tokens.
You can get information about any IG business account using your FB access_token using the business_discovery API as given here.
You must have an IG business account to read other users data like user_info or media details using the id of your IG business account as a node.
Ex:
GET graph.facebook.com/[YOUR-IG-BUSINESS-ACCOUNT-ID]?fields=business_discovery.username(USERNAME){media{caption,media_url,media_type,like_count,comments_count,id}}
I want members of the public to submit posts (images and text) to my business facebook page via an iphone app using the Graph API. Is this possible? If so, could someone explain which calls need to be used in the iphone App (using the Graph API).
I can only see that people with permissions set for the business page can post to it.
I am the developer of the iphone app and it is for public use. I want people to be able to post their game results to the my business facebook page (as well as their own facebook page)
Any advice appreciated.
You will need to request the publish_actions permission from your users and with their access token, you can make POST requests to the Graph API at this endpoint:
/{page-id}/feed
In this POST request you can include a message/link/etc...
For more reference and other accepted parameters, you can take a look at the relevant documentation here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.1/page/feed#publish
I am using /me/feed and /me/home to get my feed and my homepage feed respectively.
But the /me/home only shows updates from my friends. I am following many people but not friends with them. My facebook homepage shows all the updates including my friends and the people I am following.
How to get the news feed exactly like the one appears in the fb website?
As #Fabio said, the Graph API does not support it as of now (and I don't think it'll do that in the future). You can only obtain yours and your friends' feeds using the Graph API.
In order to obtain the feeds from a specific person who's not in your friend list, you need a valid User Access Token from that user with a read_stream permission.
There is however a way to read the public feeds of user status updates and page status updates as they are posted to Facebook. This can be done by using the Public Feed API. This will include all feeds that have their privacy set to ‘public’ are included in the stream. Also, you cannot apply to use the API at this time as its access is limited. Its page says:
Access to the Public Feed API is restricted to a limited set of media
publishers and usage requires prior approval by Facebook. You cannot
apply to use the API at this time.
But I think it's just a fancy way of saying that this API is not free and you'll be charged few dollars (which you can find out by getting in touch with someone at Facebook) for using this service.
i'm working on project which mostly is a data-mining from social networks, so far, i've done twitter and it have really nice API, which allows me to pick an endpoint and recieve alredy filltered twits as streaming data. Now i'm working on a facebook, and there comes the question: with Graph API i would be able to get public feed of some definite page, but what if i would like to recieve posts from as many people as possible? Does Facebook Public Feed API works as Twitter's, and gives me data from as many sources as possible, or i missunderstood something?
Facebook has restricted public feed api usage and its now available only to handful no of teams: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/public_feed
Access to the Public Feed API is restricted to a limited set of media publishers and usage requires prior approval by Facebook. You cannot apply to use the API at this time.
You're look for the Facebook Search API. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/search/
You'll need an app with a token to access these. Some might need higher permissions though, but the generic one will work to search commons actions types (post, places, etc) who're publicly available on the platform.
You won't be able to search for private publications. Unless you search user who gave you direct permissions to read their timeline (one by one).