Is there any graph API which gives a page's followers detail?If not is there any alternative?I have a Facebook page and i wanted to collect my followers data(user interests,shares etc)
I have tried graph APIs but it gives single users data only.it doest give page followers data unless and untill we know their userids.No way to collect that also.
You cannot access your page follower's data like that, especially not if you refer to followers (compared to fans, which are two different things/objects).
Do do this it would require the user explicitly granting your app the permission to access that info first, but data you mention (user interests for example) had been deprecated and cannot be accessed via the API anymore.
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I would like to get all the posts and updates that are normally displayed in FB official application for MY account (this includes updates from my friends and liked pages).
I wasn't able to find any details how to get that, the only thing I've managed to get is my own posts.
Anyone got any experience with that using current Graph API verion (3.3)?
All the alternate FB clients (ex. Friendly) must be doing this somehow.
There is no way to get ANY data of users who did not authorized your App. Which means, there is no way to get posts of friends. You can only get your own friends, with the user_posts permission and the /me/posts endpoint. If some Apps access friend data without their authorization, they are most likely doing something that is not allowed.
Here is what I found in their API docs:
There are two scopes:
The user feed requires the user's permission
The public feed has fewer capabilities but doesn't require perms
I'm using Facebook graph Api to search users and data that i get is kinda different from that i get from Facebook UI. For example search response of User interface is friends, mutual friends and other related data in first. How can i query to get related data for current user ( i.e friends and mutual friends in first place).
Here is query that i'm using to search users.
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/search?fields=id,name,picture.type(normal)&limit=50&q={q}&type=user&access_token={token}
and data that i get is kinda different from that i get from Facebook UI
That’s because those are two completely different things.
The search functionality offered via the UI is called Graph Search. But the powerful possibilities that offers are not exposed via API. (To protect user privacy, and keep apps from doing extended user profiling via that data.)
Searching via API is limited to what is listed here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/#search
That’s not much – but it’s all you get.
I've seen many posts around most of them are about pages or with outdated information.
I need to collect the feed (let's say last 10 posts: title + content) of 2 different Facebook groups in real-time (or almost) possibly in JSON in order to get real-time notifications about new posts (e.g. via kimonolabs service, but any other solution is accepted).
How do to that?
There are no realtime updates for groups. You would need to get the feed on your own - with a Cron Job, for example.
Be aware that you can only get access to groups you manage, with the user_managed_groups permission and the /group-id/feed endpoint.
Check out the API reference for example code and all the information you need: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.4/group
I'm trying to figure out how to get the total number of comments, posts, likes and fans for any given Facebook fan page and date range using the Facebook API's. I need to be able to do this without the user having to log into Facebook to give the app permissions. This does seem to be possible, as this site is able to do it https://app.conversocial.com/profiler/ .But I don't know how they are doing it.
I've looked into the 'insights' fql table, but this always seems to return empty results. And I've also looked into the 'link_stats' fql table but this doesn't allow a date range to be set.
Does anyone have any idea on how to do this?
You are right. What they are doing is not possible by using the normal Graph API or/and the FQL.
However, Facebook also provides support for two other APIs:
Public Feed API
Keyword Insights API
Access to these APIs is restricted to a limited set of media publishers and usage requires prior approval by Facebook.
I think that they are using the Public Feed API. The documentation of the Public Feed API lists some of the publishers that have been using this API and the site you've mentioned in the question is not in the list. The documentation also doesn't mention anything about getting the Page Insights, but I think it might support this feature (as I see no other way of doing it).
Or, they might be using any other such restricted API which is not yet available to the public and not even documented on the developers website, but is currently in beta/testing phase.
To get the number of fans and the talkabout count, just query the appropriate Open graph ID for the relevant page. For example, for Coca Cola (https://www.facebook.com/cocacola) this is done via
https://graph.facebook.com/40796308305
To get all public infos (Posts etc) use the following request
https://graph.facebook.com/40796308305/feed?access_token={ACCESS_TOKEN}
where {ACCESS_TOKEN} can either be an App Access Token or a personal one. Consider that you can only see public entries.
The ability to query the date ranges is not provided via Facebook ad far as I know. I guess the https://app.conversocial.com/profiler/ application queries each page that is in its index once a day, and saves the results. That's how they're able to provide historical data.
You can try with the following FQL queries or graph API requests for facebook pages,
Graph API
http://graph.facebook.com/nb4cinema
FQL
SELECT name,about,description, fan_count,talking_about_count FROM page WHERE username= 'stackoverflowpage'
In case of FQL tables:
To read the page table you need
no access_token to get public information, or information about public pages that are not demographically restricted.
any valid access_token to get all information about a page that the current session user is able to see.
We have a test fan page. This has poor figures (<10 fans). Statistics are not available due to the lack of fans and likes on that page.
Allthough, conversocial spits out some statistics. They mixed fans and likes to some extent and so my impression is, that they simply parse the page code in order to get what you see.
I'm looking to see if it's possible to pull data from individual posts; listed below. I'm looking to pull this data daily for a business page. From the daily data I want to make a weekly report comparing the last weeks set of data.
The data I'm looking to get is:
Activity / How many times was each indidual post viewed
Posts that lead to a subscription / like
Posts that lead to unsubscribe / unlike
The number of people that have hidden an individual post
Facebook provides api access to the Insights of a page (or application).
You have two ways to access it: the Insights object or the Insights fql table.
Using that you can load statistics about your page using specific metrics, in the fql table doc. the ones that you care about (based on your question) starts in Page Posts and then you have Stories and People talking about this, Impressions and Engagement.
According to the fql table doc:
To read insights you need
read_insights permissions for all apps, Pages and domains owned by the current session user
Which means that you won't be able to just run a program once a day to collect this data since you'll need an active token for a user that has access to the insights data for the page and has authorized your app and granted the "read_insights" permission.
You can make sure that the user use your app while you authenticate him using the Server-Side auth flow, which will results in 60 days token, save that and you can run that program daily for the next 60 days.
When the token has expired the user will have to again use your app to authenticate and create a new valid token.