For the most part, an application has To go through an App review to get permission to extract data from the Facebook Graph API.
If an application receives a Page Public Content Access permission in Graph API and that permission is used to gather public data from a select number of pages, how is the rate limit calculated?
As far as i have understood there are two types of rate limits in Graph API,
User Rate limit
Page Rate limit
Which one is used when utilizing a Page Public Content Access to read data from public pages? This is not specifically stated anywhere in the documentation and is quite crucial for our possibility to implement our solution.
Thank you for your help.
Cheers Valentin Ibanez
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I am attempting to retrieve my own comments from a public group on Facebook, using the Facebook Graph API. This is a public group of which I am not an administrator.
I have attempted a number of strategies, but to no avail so far. I keep hitting brick walls, e.g.:
The xxx'yyy' is only accessible on the User object after the user grants the 'user_managed_groups' permission.
If I go on my own profile activity log, I can see those comments, so I would have expected there should have been a way to retrieve those programmatically through the Graph API.
Am I mistaken?
UPDATE
On the chance that I am indeed mistaken, I have sent the following feedback to Facebook:
I would like to b able to retrieve my own comments from a public group on Facebook, using the Facebook Graph API. This is a
public group of which I am not an administrator.
At the moment, the Graph API documentation (v2.12) states that to read the feed I need to provide a user access token for an Admin of
the Group with the user_managed_groups permissions.
Please note that if I go on my own profile activity log, I can see those comments, so I would have expected there should have been a way
to retrieve those programmatically through the Graph API.
Group feeds are only accessible with an access token of a group admin now.
Please note that if I go on my own profile activity log, I can see those comments, so I would have expected there should have been a way to retrieve those programmatically through the Graph API.
The main difference is, that you are one single person looking at your own data. But if I create an app and have a hundred thousand people log in to it and it was possible to read that data, then I could accumulate it for whatever shady purpose ...
(Now with the feed of a public group that might seem a little over the top, I know - but I think the general idea is to make automated data collection harder.)
Hello i am new to Facebook graph api and looking for getting all the users public post in facebook by location using Facebook graph api .There are some existing apps like Geofeedia,COEverywhere, TrackinU which can get public posts of social networking sites by location . Is there is any way to get public post of an area in Facebook ?
Public Feed API
The Public Feed API displays a real-time feed of public posts for a specific word. Only public posts (from Pages and Profiles of those with ‘Follow’ turned on) are available with this API.
Keyword Insights API
The Keyword Insights API aggregates the total number of posts that mention a specific term in a given time frame. It can also display anonymous,
aggregated results based on gender, age and location.
Our current list of partners includes: Buzzfeed, CNN, NBC’s Today Show, BSkyB, Slate. and Mass Relevance.
These two tools are currently only available for a small group of trusted media partners.
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.
is it possible to get all FB public posts from a location(city/country)? I don't want any of the user's info , I am solely interested in the posts.
One way of doing this by using the Public Feed API.
The Public Feed API provides a stream of user status updates and page status updates as they are posted to Facebook. But, the stream only includes basic data about the given post. However, you can user Graph API to request additional data, like place (country) for a particular post and sort them out based on their country.
NOTE: Access to the Public Feed API is restricted to a limited set of media publishers and usage requires prior approval by Facebook. You cannot use the API without the approval.
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).