I want to post a Facebook share link on the website. If someone visits the website by clicking on the shared post, I want to be able to track that in order to reward the original sharer.
My request seems similar to this request. However, the question is several years old, and I'm not sure if that method still works.
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I'm working on an app in which I intend to display the existing posts from my Facebook wall but in another design. I succeeded in getting my personal posts but for some reasons I cannot find the posts of the other users in my feed. Is there any way in which I can get all the post from my wall including my friends? Is this even possible? I could not find an answer yet, not even in the docs.
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I'm new on working with Facebook and honestly I found it very confusing, terminology and documentation seems to be very ambiguous in many cases. Can somebody please help me out with a plain english explanation on how I can achive the following?
Post and image to Facebook (on the user page) and then check the stats (insights) of that post.
Till now I have managed to:
1) Create an app
2) Post the image on the user page with the desired message
I'm not able to understand how I can retrieve information about the particular image which was uploaded through my app. I want to know how many people have viewed that image, how many likes did it get, how many times it was re-shared.
Is it possible at all?
I'm posting to /photo not too /feed and I will like to keep it this way if it is possible.
Sorry if this was answered already but I spent a few hours trying to find an appropriate answer but wasn't able to get the right documentation.
UPDATE 1
After having a couple of days off from this topic and receiving the first 2 answers, I took another dive into this. Now I have tried the Graph API Explorer as suggested, and using the ID of a POST I can get some details about the POST, but the insights aren't showing anything, just next and previous.
My goal is to be able to gatther some stats about the pictures uploaded through the app. If this is not possible directly what should be the approach I need to take?
I don't believe a personal /photo has /insights attached to it - the Insights Object documentation page suggests that they do not - but you should be able to get likes, shares, and comments via the API.
It would appear FB has launched a redesign/reorganization of its documentation in the last couple of weeks, but the documentation for the /photo graph object is here -- you will need the user's Access Token, and the API endpoints you're looking for each have links to their own documentation pages there, including example code for each type of request.
Edit (summarizing discussion in comments):
There is no method via the Facebook API to gather insights for all photos posted to individual user timelines via an app. The app can gather likes, shares, and comments for each of those objects individually via API requests, and can make API requests for insights for photos posted to its own timeline. Neither of those options solves the intended use case here.
I'd recommend a solution that uses Sharing rather than an app integration, as this allows for better access to insights on the photos being shared. This is also a much simpler integration, and less brittle wrt future Platform changes. The main tradeoff is that the original photos being shared are expected to expire after a couple of months -- if this is unavoidable, I'd suggest implementing a redirect for requests for expired objects on the site.
We are able to get different kind of photos or picture Using Graph API
like as below:
1.Page Photos
Photos for a Facebook Page.A Page Access Token is required for all methods.Find here
2.Page Picture
Picture belonging to a Facebook Page. Find here
3.Photo
Represents an individual photo on Facebook. Find here
4.User Photos
Photos for a person.Find here
I hope it's helps you.
firstly please forgive me if these is a repeat question, i have looked through the website trying to find similar threads and they didnt exactly answer my question.
my delema is the following, i just wanted to know if it is possible to create a facebook Tab, have for example five products and under this have a button or a feature which allowed users to send this product to a particular friend's WALL with a comment that they can write.
I know there is the share functionality and you can manually tag the post/item i also know of the send functionality which posts a private message.
is there anyway of having this to the wall.?
I have an application that lets users post content to their walls. I would like to dual post the content my Page's wall as well (so users of the app can see it being used around Facebook). This seems to work by making two Graph requests, however the posts get marked as spam and I need to go in and approve them. The user may or may not have "liked" my Page, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
Is there way to exclude my app from the spam filtering, or a better way of doing this?
You need to get an permanent access-token that will let you post as the admin of the page (for posting to your pages wall) and then the post should not need moderating.
See http://www.sergiy.ca/post-on-facebook-app-wall-and-fan-page-wall-as-admin/
I've found what could be a glaring problem with Facebook, or it could be a misunderstanding on my part (hope it's the latter). I have an app that uses the graph API to post links to friends walls (friends of the user, that is). The problem is that if the friend comments on the post, the user is never notified of it. i.e. Facebook doesn't create a notification for my user that his friend has commented on his post. That's a significant issue if you're trying to build an app that focuses on link sharing! Important: I've checked my notification settings several times, and I have the most liberal settings but still do not get any notifications.
It must be that Facebook treats posts by apps differently. My questions are:
1) Has anyone experienced a similar issue, or is there some way to get these notifications of comments to work?
2) If this is an inherent limitation, is there a way that my app can pick up on comments in response to posts made by my app? I can probably save the post id and regularly check back for comments...but that sucks. A better way would be to subscribe to changes in the post, although it doesn't look like Facebook's real-time updates support this. Maybe I'm answering my own question.
Facebook has acknowledged that this is a bug. The bug report and response by Facebook can be found here. Facebook has assigned it as a Medium priority issue...