I'm trying to get the number of followers on a page. That is, obtain the number that appears in the portal as: "1363 people follow this"
I am trying to make the call as follows:
Dim urlSocialAnalitics As String =
String.Format ("https://graph.facebook.com/{0}/friends?summary=total_count&access_token={1}", pIdFanPage, pToken)
But it does not work. It's a problem for me.
I have also tried with this url:
urlSocialAnalitics = String.Format("graph.facebook.com/v2.6/{0}?fields=fan_count&access_token={1}", pIdFanPage, pToken)
But this gives me the number of Likes and not of Followers
I have read the documentation:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/page/
But I do not see anything about it.
What is the correct call?
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I am looking to find the follower count of a Scratch user using the Scratch API. I already know how to get their message count, with https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/[USER]/messages/count/.
This answer targets the Scratch REST API, documented here.
You get the user's followers by requesting them: https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/some_username/following where some_username is to be replaced by the actual username.
This will return 0 to 20 results (20 is the default limit of objects returned by the REST API). If there's less than 20 results, then you're done. The amount of followers is simply the count of the objects returned.
If there's 20 objects returned, we can't be certain we've requested all the user's friends as there might be more to come. Therefore, we skip the first 20 followers of that user by supplying the ?offset= parameter: https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/some_username/following?offset=20
This retrieves the second 'page' of friends. Now we simply loop through the procedure described above, incrementing offset by 20 each time until either less than 20 results are returned or no results are returned. The amount of friends of that user is the cumulative count of the objects returned.
As mentioned by _nix on this forum thread, there is currently no API to achieve this. However, he/she rightly points out that the number can be obtained from a user's profile page.
You may write a script (in JavaScript, for example) to parse the HTML and get the follower count in the brackets at the top of the page.
Hope this helps!
There is a solution in Python:
import requests
import re
def followers(self,user):
followers = int(re.search(r'Followers \(([0-9]+)\)', requests.get(f'https://scratch.mit.edu/users/{user}/followers').text, re.I).group(1))
return f'{followers} on [scratch](https://scratch.mit.edu/users/{user}/followers)'
Credit goes to 12944qwerty, in his code (adapted to remove some implementation specific stuff).
use ScratchDB
var user = "username here";
fetch(`https://scratchdb.lefty.one/v3/user/info/${user}`).then(res => res.json()).then(data => {
console.log(`${user} has ` + data["followers"].toString() + " followers");
}
(Edit: this is javascript btw, I prefer Python but Python doesn't have a cloud.set function and this is how I did it)
Use ScratchDB (I used httpx, but you can GET with anything):
import httpx
import json
user = "griffpatch"
response = httpx.get(f"https://scratchdb.lefty.one/v3/user/info/{ user }")
userData = json.loads(response.text)
followers = userData["statistics"]["followers"]
https://api.scratch.mit.edu/users/griffpatch/followers
this gives the follower names, scratch staus(scratch team or not), pfp, everything in their profile
How can I get number of shares that is shown on facebook debugger page via API?
I've empirically found it to fit the most for comparing with share counters from some others social networks, but it looks like this number does not show up anywhere except that debugger page.
Here are some details.
By now I've found 3 API calls that return somewhat relevant data:
via graph API: http://graph.facebook.com/?id=http%3A%2F%2Farzamas.academy%2Fspecial%2Fruslit
via FQL: https://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=SELECT%20url,%20normalized_url,%20share_count,%20like_count,%20comment_count,%20total_count,commentsbox_count,%20comments_fbid,%20click_count%20FROM%20link_stat%20WHERE%20url=%27http%3A%2F%2Farzamas.academy%2Fspecial%2Fruslit%27
via some old API: https://api.facebook.com/method/links.getStats?urls=http%3A%2F%2Farzamas.academy%2Fspecial%2Fruslit&format=json
The values in second and third call are identical, for my test url http://arzamas.academy/special/ruslit the current ones are
share_count: 492, like_count: 5042, comment_count: 491, total_count: 6025
The counter from the first call is named shares and is equal to total_count from second and third call.
When you paste the url in facebook debugger and click 'Show existing scrape information', one of the first rows in table is
Canonical URL: http://arzamas.academy/special/ruslit (6025 likes, 1635 shares)
Number of likes is equal to total_count from API calls, but how can I get that 1635 shares number via API?
I've found that specifying Graph API version newer than 2.0 gives another number (share.share_count), for some reason it is the sum of both numbers, that are shown in debugger (likes + shares).
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/145634995501895/?method=GET&path=%3Fid%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Farzamas.academy%252Fspecial%252Fruslit&version=v2.3&
So now I can get counters from two calls and subtract to get the value that I need. There are obvious cons for this method:
2 calls
token requirement
looks not very reliable
But it should work, I'll try to implement it and will mark this answer as correct if there are no additional caveats and until there is no better solution.
I am trying to bring comments made on a particular event by targeting this URL: https://graph.facebook.com/1466384840257158/comments
I am passing the user_access_token
I have two comments at present on this event made on the same
day(2014-03-29)
Now I try to pass a date which should bring an empty data result/object
like this: https://graph.facebook.com/1466384840257158/comments?since=2011-01-01&until=2014-01-10
This request has no effect, it still shows me the two comment made
on the 29th
I have tried the same kind of date range on my user-id/feed and it
gave me an empty data object.
Finally i tried event-id/feed (before trying date filter) and it
gave me the following error
.
{
"error": {
"message": "An unexpected error has occurred. Please retry your request later.",
"type": "OAuthException",
"code": 2
}
}
Could you please guide me about date filter on that particular query (point4) or if you have any other idea to use date filter on comments made for an event.
Comments use Cursor-based Pagination, so you cannot use since or until on the comments endpoint (these parameters would work f.ex. for the feed endpoint).
To get the comments in a time range you have to fetch all comments from NOW to the start of the time range, f.ex. with https://graph.facebook.com/1466384840257158/comments?filter=stream&limit=1000+paging (the filter=stream will order the result with the timestamp).
USING SINCE UNTIL FOR COMMENTS on GROUP
If you want to use since and until for comments, it is not possible directly for a group. So, First you can apply it for status(feed) and then get the comments for that feed.
This works for me:
{group_id}/?fields=feed.since(08/25/2016).until(08/31/2016){from,comments{from,message}}
Why don't you try first to filter by notifications?... notifications allows you to add parameters like since. For example (using Facebook pages):
https://graph.facebook.com/PAGEID?fields=notifications.since(2015-3-31 00:00:00).limit(250).include_read(true)&{id,created_time,updated_time,unread,object,link}&access_token=ACCESSTOKEN
Once you got the json data, loop through data, get the ID and send a second request but this time using the PAGEID_POSTID edge. Something like this:
https://graph.facebook.com/PAGEID_POSTID/comments?fields=id,from{name,id},message,can_remove,created_time&limit=1000
Voahla!... there's no need to read every comment!...
Note 1: A Page access token is required, along with the manage_pages permission
Note 2: Use the parameter/field include_read to get all the notifications, even the already readed
Note 3: In the second request, use the parameter/field "filter=stream" to order the posts and get the comments made in the name of your page
Note 4: Don't forget to control the asynchronicity once you loop!
Note 5: Notifications duplicate posts, use an array to avoid to read more than one time the postUse the parameter/field include_read to get all the notifications, even the already readed
I do not know if it's too late. But, Yeah it works in the graph api version 3.3.
for example: if you wanna get comments on a post of a Facebook page you can do it like this:
You have to use page Access-token
The get Graph Request : post_id/comments?since=some_date
Is there a way to search for 2 keywords in a public post? I want to do a full text search in all public posts.
Right now I am doing it as "https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=A+B&type=post&fields=link,message&access_token=<>.
Current Behavior: fetching posts having A or B.
Required Behavior: Fetch post have both A & B.
I have also tried POST method in Graph API Explorer. Please suggest what should I do to get results.
Other things I tried :
facebook graph api search rules. But it also seems not working, even when I tried with q=A&q=B. Only second query word is getting searched.
Use the '|' operator. In your note, 'q=A&q=B' you are reassigning the value of 'q'. The API parses the string set as the value for 'q' and uses the '|' operator to parse between. Either way you will have a tough time finding a lot of results because the 'search/post' API is now deprecated.
I am having problems running queries with FQL that include a supplied "Large"(beginning with 10000..) User ID
here is an example of one that is not working:
fql?q=SELECT uid, first_name,last_name,pic,pic_square,name
FROM user
WHERE uid=100002445083370
Is there a way to encapsulate the long number so it's passed as a string?
here is another example:
/fql?q=SELECT src_big
FROM photo
WHERE aid IN (SELECT aid
FROM album
WHERE owner=100002445083370 AND type="profile")
ORDER BY created DESC LIMIT 1
Has anyone been able to solve this issue? I am testing the queries in the graph explorer with no luck as well.
I see what the problem is,
The User id I am trying to pass is supposed to be: "100002445083367", but from querying the list of friends and grabbing their User Id, I am getting back "uid":1.0000244508337e+14 which is being shortened to: 100002445083370 (php removing the e+14) throwing off the second query. I need to make sure the id I am grabbing is staying as a string value not a number while I pass it back and forth from PHP and Javascript.
The problem is because of the way PHP handles JSON_DECODE. I had to modify Facebook PHP SDK and add a preg_replace previous to the json_decode. It will make sure json_decode doesn't convert large integers to floats by first converting them to strings.
here is the code:
line 803 from base_facebook.php:
$result = json_decode(preg_replace('/("\w+"):(\d+)/', '\\1:"\\2"', $this->_oauthRequest($this->getUrl($domainKey, $path),$params)), true);
here is more information on the subject:
http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=20846
What do you mean by "not working"?
That query works for me in Graph API explorer but the response is
{
"data": [
]
}
I think that user-id isn't valid; https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002445083370 gives a "Page not found" error for me.