I am trying to fetch all of my instagram page's posts (around 57k posts) from facebook's graph API. using the 'media' endpoint described here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/getting-started
I have managed to get around 12k posts using it using the query below:
https://graph.facebook.com/v3.3/{ig-user-id}/media?access_token=XXX&pretty=0&fields=timestamp,caption,comments_count,like_count,media_type,media_url,owner,permalink,shortcode,thumbnail_url,username&limit=200
when using this link returning result contains a data part which is for posts' data and a pagination section which includes next and previous urls and cursors for after and before. I used next and got remaining posts each time, until the result didn't have a next url but it had an after cursor but when I used it the data returned was empty.
I thought there might be some kind of limitation, but couldn't find anything so far except for the API rate limits which I don't exceed.
I also tried the graph API explorer and got the same result.
The problem was not solved but I found something I hadn't seen before, it might help people confused like me.
in the endpoint documentation it is declared that this endpoint has a 10k recent posts limitation, therefor we cannot get any more of our posts.
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We have a tool connecting with the Facebook Insights API to grab various metrics (Likes, Comments, etc).
One such metric is the Lifetime Engaged Users.
However, we've looked at many FB pages (not going through the API) and the insights numbers seem to be different.
I have used the Graph Explorer to check if there is an error in our request, and this is not the case. For example, in one case, the call returns "13480".
Here is the screenshot from the Insights page:
FB Insights Page
I may not be checking at the correct numbers, but can someone help me out?
I would like to figure out how I can find this particular metric, other than using our tool or using the Graph Explorer.
Thank you!
Try this: go recheck your call to API, remove that S from "metricS=metricName".
I met this problem today, and find that there are two ways to get object insight data:
object-id/insights/metricNameA,metricNameB
object-id/insights/?metric=metricNameA,metricNameB
I happened to use the 2nd way, and wrongly typed metricS instead of metric, which led to return an array of data for all metrics, and my code data[0].values[0].value therefore got the first metric in that array which is "post_story_adds_unique", if you have same mistake as mine, that 13480 could be this 1st metric return by default from FB.
I'm trying to get access to the page_fans_city edge from the Facebook Graph API.
I am using the following query:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/StrandTowerHotel/insights/page_fans_city/lifetime
For some reason though it keeps returning no data when I am using the Graph API explorer.
note: I am an admin/owner of the page
Whats interesting though is that if I just query https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/StrandTowerHotel/insights/ then I get all the other metrics results returned but "page_fans_city" is not in the results.
I have read through and tried the following solutions already posted on stack overflow but they don't seem to solve the issue.
Getting number of people who like a page on facebook by city
Facebook PHP Graph API not returning complete data
facebook: permanent Page Access Token?
Many thanks in advance for any help you can give me
After much searching and bug fixing it ended up being the facebook api was just having issues. now working perfectly :(
How can I query facebook's graph API to retrieve all user's likes (not only pages but also photos and others)?
For instance, how could I get all the pictures a user has liked? Using facebook's search bar you can find them easily by clicking on "photos has liked".
I wrote a script that scrapes the page content and does that but it's not very efficient.
I have recently come accross a similar problem, maybe this helps you solve it.
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/{page_id}/feed?fields=likes.limit(1).summary(true)&since={start_date}&until={end_date}&access_token={access_token}
This will give you a list of all posts that received likes during the specified time period. If you manage to write a code summing up the following JSON path you got your sum for "all user's likes":
data[0].likes.summary.total_count
Not entirely sure is this is exactly what you were searching for, hope it helps you though - and if not you, someone else.
As for likes you can also use the same way to extract Shares and Comments:
Shares
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/{page_id}/feed?fields=shares&since={start_date}&until={end_date}&access_token=
Comments
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/{page_id}/feed?fields=comments.limit(1).summary(true)&since={start_date}&until={end_date}&access_token=
Best regards
There isn't to my knowledge any way to get this from the API without grabbing every type of response from the API and then sorting through for likes. Facebook search bar uses an internal API different from the Graph API.
So I am trying to retrieve some insights information and noticed there was a connection within the posts field of a page. When I use this connection, it retrieves all of the insights information, all metrics. I only want to limit myself to a few that I need, instead of getting the overhead of searching it out myself after I pick it up.
This is the URL I have tried to limit myself to only the post_consumptions metric
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.0/<page_id>/posts?fields=insights{post_consumptions}
This doesn't work, it still returns every metric, so I thought maybe I can't choose the metric, but only the fields. Then I tried this:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.0/<page_id>/posts?fields=insights{id, name}
But there were no changes in results, I can't seem to find any documentation about this connection either in the documentation of Facebook Graph API, which doesn't really surprise me as Facebook does this quite a lot.
The documentation about it, which I could find, are here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/insights
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/post#edges
I dont know if you still have this problem but i solved it like this
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.2/<page_id>/posts?fields=insights.metric(post_impressions_unique)
when I make the user/feed request on the Facebook Open Graph API, I get a feed object where posts with > 2 comments or > 4 likes don't reveal the detailed information for those specific comments.
I am using https://github.com/Thuzi/facebook-node-sdk to make requests but it is very similar to the 'request' NodeJS library.
I can get the full posts individually by making a separate request for that post's Open Graph ID, but this doesn't lend itself to fun code because requests are asynchronous and nesting more asynchronous calls within asynchronous calls doesn't lend itself to fun code.
Any way I can obtain the full posts?
Any way I can obtain the full posts?
You could use the (relatively) new Field Expansion feature, to set your own limit for likes and comments, like this:
/facebook/feed?fields=story,message,likes.limit(100),comments.limit(100)
If you expect (and need) more likes/comments, you might have to set the limits to higher values.
But warning, these queries can be quite time-consuming – I just tried the one shown using the Graph API Explorer, and it froze my browser for quite some time. (Although that’s partliy the Explorers fault, because it manipulates the data heavily before displaying it. Making the pure request against the API, https://graph.facebook.com/facebook/feed?fields=story,message,likes.limit(100),comments.limit(100)&access_token=…, shows to be quicker.)