I want to get page posts by filtering date using Facebook Graph API, but it lets me filter only one week. For example, if today is 2017-05-01, I can get page posts between 2017-04-23 -> 2017-05-01 but I can get page posts between 2017-01-01 to 2017-04-01. Moreover,I've tried using :
me?fields=feed.since(2017-01-01).until(2017-04-01)
and the result I've got is
{
"id": "XXXXXXXXXXX"
}
Could you please show me how to get past page posts by using date period? Thanks!
Use a User Token, and grants the 'user_posts' permission.
You must change the call to add explicitly the fields that you want to retrieve. Ex. "me/feed?fields=message,description...."
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I used to get the number of likes for my webpage from facebook with:
http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&format=json&urls=www.example.com
But this doesn't work anymore.
I tried:
https://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=SELECT%20total_count%20FROM%20link_stat%20WHERE%20url=%22www.example.com%22
But this doesn't work either.
I tried:
http://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http%3a%2f%2fwww.example.com
But this gives me only the share_count, not the number of likes.
I found this: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.7/object/likes
POST graph.facebook.com/v2.7/{object-id}/likes HTTP/1.1
But I got no idea what the {object-id} is or where I can get it. And I don't know if I need any access-credentials to access the information.
Anyone got a small example what http-requests I need now to get the likes of my webpage please?
receive the number of shares/comments and object-id
graph.facebook.com/?fields=og_object{id},share&id=https://stackoverflow.com/
save shares/comments count
save fb object-id of url
og_object->id
get likes count with (max limit is 1000, then you can use paging):
graph.facebook.com/OBJECT_ID/likes?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN&pretty=1&limit=1000
UPD 2016-08-22
I found a solution that allows you to get the number of likes/reposts/comments in one step:
https://graph.facebook.com/?fields=og_object{likes.limit(0).summary(true)},share&ids=http://google.com,http://twitter.com
First You need the Id for the page. You can to use the next page. http://findmyfbid.com/ There is you put the link of facebook page that You need for example.
https://www.facebook.com/BooStore1
and the result is:
149955492088239
Now you're going to the api graph of facebook and you need yo use the field "fan_count"
This would look like
**149955492088239?fields=fan_count**
Results:
{
"fan_count": 110,
"id": "149955492088239"
}
Note: first step is optional, You can to use the name in facebook page url that you need.
I want to find out the latest comments and likes on a facebook page given a timestamp. Is there a way we can fetch this data from the facebook API? For example : If a user A posted something on my page 30 days back, and user B liked the post and commented on it today. I need to get these activities in the response if I try and find out all activities on my page in the past 2 days (even if the post is 30 days old).
That is not working via the API, the since parameter only works on posts. A possibility is:
comments_after_that_time = 1349285260;
$comments = json_decode(file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/[yourpost_id]/comments?access_token=xxx"));
foreach($comments->data as $comment)
{
if(strtotime($comment->created_time) > comments_after_that_time)
{
echo "we have a new comment";
}
}
My application(game) has been running on Facebook for some time. I start by requesting a friends list via the graph API call: my-uid/friends
asking for user name and profile pic.
Normally I get back a list of all my friends up to a few thousand, until it starts putting friends on to the next page. Which is nice as most of my users get friends in 1 call.
Suddenly however, and with no changes to the app. about 40 minutes ago (18:40 Tuesday (PDT) - 2nd May 2012) I started getting responses with only 25 friends per 'page'!
I can still get my whole friends list using multiple calls, but the game is not currently set up to do that properly. Can anyone tell me why the sudden change? Anyone else seen similar problems and how do I get the list to give me up to 5000 friends per page like it used to.
Reproducible using the Graph API Explorer
I don't know what else to tell you; perhaps the default number returned has changed, but when I try, a call to /me/friends?limit=5000 returns the full list for me (but my friends list is >500 and < 1000 , so maybe it cuts off somewhere along the way)
(Side note: the average number of friends has been found to be ~190 so presumably most users will have less than 500 anyway, and having to page above 500 would be an edge case
In SDK 4.7 you need to pass in a bundle with the number of friends you want to return, I have set it to 5000 as this is the maximum number of friends you can have on Facebook.
You also need to set up your app as a game in the facebook dev console and use invitable friends to get a full friends list
Create your bundle
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
Add params to your bundle
bundle.putInt("limit", 5000);
Then pass it in to your GraphRequest
new GraphRequest(
AccessToken.getCurrentAccessToken(),
"/me/invitable_friends",
bundle,
HttpMethod.GET,
new GraphRequest.Callback() {
public void onCompleted(GraphResponse response) {
//Do something with the response
}
}
).executeAsync();
It seems that facebook changed its limit to 25 results in other api calls too (feed, posts, friends, etc), if you request friends without parameters the JSON response shows the following:
"paging": {
"next": "https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/friends?format=json&limit=25&offset=25&__after_id=LAST_ID"
}
Anyway you could/should always set limit & offset parameters to prevent this kind of things, limit = 0 will return all your friends list.
https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/friends?limit=0
If you are only requesting friends from a normal user the maximum number allowed is 5,000 so the limit should could be either 0 or 5,000 if you are requesting info from a facebook page or other kind of api calls like posts or feed this limit could increase or decrease.
(Update) Facebook fixed this bug so setting limit to 0 returns 0 friends, you should set a positive limit, thanks Dinuz
I think the best thing you can do is to add limit=5000 parameter as Igy says.
However I posted a bug report since this change wasn't noticed or described in the document.
The number of results returned from the /v2.2/me/friends endpoint now defaults to 25.
Friend list now only returns friends who also use your app: The list of friends returned via the /me/friends endpoint is now limited to the list of friends that have authorized your app.
See Facebook changes
Facebook API change log
If you are using GraphRequest() (e.g. in React Native), you can put it directly in the string field, like so :
new GraphRequest(
'/me',
{
accessToken,
parameters: {
fields: {
string: 'id,email,first_name,last_name,friends.limit(5000)'
}
}
...
I'm trying to get insights from facebook for some pages I have admin rights to. I'm able to get the correct data with the graph API but when I try with FQL I get an empty JSON object. Any idea what the problem may be?
I think the query is correct because I do not get any 400/500 errors. I also think the permissions are correct because I'm using the same framwork with the graph API solution and it works fine. Maybe you need additional permissions to use FQL? I have manage_pages and read_insights.
I'm implementing with basic text replacement on the template URIs from facebook's documentation.
EDIT: I think the problem may be that I don't actually have the read_insights permission. I do have the manage_pages permission. Perhaps this explains why I can access insights through Graph API but not FQL?
Graph API query:
string insight_str = "https://graph.facebook.com/APP_ID/insights/FIELD/FREQ?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN";
string url = insight_str.Replace("FIELD", "page_impressions").Replace("FREQ","day").Replace("APP_ID", accounts[i].id).Replace("ACCESS_TOKEN", accounts[i].access_token);
https://graph.facebook.com/xxxxxxxx/insights/page_impressions/day?access_token=xxxxxxxx
Graph API parsed JSON result:
page_impressions
2011-12-28 412
2011-12-29 971
2011-12-30 373
FQL query:
string query_str = "https://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=QUERY&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN";
string query = "SELECT+metric,value+FROM+insights+WHERE+object_id=APP_ID+AND+metric='FIELD'+AND+end_time=1322722800+AND+period=86400";
string url = query_str.Replace("QUERY",query).Replace("FIELD","page_impressions").Replace("APP_ID",accounts[i].id).Replace("ACCESS_TOKEN",accounts[i].access_token);
https://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=SELECT+metric,value+FROM+insights+WHERE+object_id=xxxxxxxx+AND+metric='page_impressions'+AND+end_time=1322722800+AND+period=86400&access_token=xxxxxxxx
FQL JSON result:
{"data":[]}
I have the same problem with Facebook C# SDK version 5.4.1 and 5.3.2 (see my post Error with FQL query with library 5.4.1)
I always receive an empty response like you.
You must have the read_insights permission.
I think the end time in your example is slightly off. It needs to fall exactly at midnight PST. I obtained a value once I moved the time forward an hour, to 1322726400.
Using Facebook's Graph API, given a username xyz (assuming they've authenticated my site), how do I get a list of all of the facebook pages that the user administers?
The accounts property on the user object says:
The Facebook pages owned by the current user. If the manage_pages permission has been granted, this connection also yields access_tokens that can be used to query the Graph API on behalf of the page.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user
After getting access token you can get all details of list of all of the facebook pages that the user administers.
https://graph.facebook.com/[FACEBOOKUSERID]?metadata=1&access_token=
The output will look like
{
"name": "Facebook Developer Garage Austin - SXSW Edition",
"metadata": {
"connections": {
"feed": "http://graph.facebook.com/331218348435/feed",
"picture": "https://graph.facebook.com/331218348435/picture",
"invited": "https://graph.facebook.com/331218348435/invited",
"attending": "https://graph.facebook.com/331218348435/attending",
"maybe": "https://graph.facebook.com/331218348435/maybe",
"noreply": "https://graph.facebook.com/331218348435/noreply",
"declined": "https://graph.facebook.com/331218348435/declined"
}
}
}
Use an fql query! That is the best way to get the pages for which the user is admin. You will also be able to restrict the names also. i.e pages with empty names A sample fql query which gives you the page details as well.
SELECT page_id,page_url,name,pic_square FROM page WHERE page_id IN (SELECT page_id FROM page_admin WHERE uid = " + **UserId** + ") and name!=''
UserId -- Id of the admin
NOTE
This method will not work from version 2.1 of graph api as fql was deprecated from that version onwards
I found the answer, you need to use FQL, passing in the appropriate access_token:
https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=SELECT%20page_id%20FROM%20page_admin%20WHERE%20uid=XXXX&access_token=YYYY
Here's what I use. It works perfect
$pages = $facebook->api(array('method' => 'fql.query','query' => 'SELECT page_id FROM page_admin WHERE uid = '.$uid.''));
foreach($pages as $k=>$v) {
echo 'page id#:'.$v['page_id'].'<br/>';
}
This is of course after you have the session created for the fb user! The $uid would be the profile id# of the specific facebook user your returning of a list of managed pages for.
#rmorrison - This is not graph API though. With the new "like" addition, you can use this URL: h ttps://graph.facebook.com/me/likes?access_token=blah! or h ttps://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/likes?access_token=blah!
Fql is the best way to get the pages of the user for which he is the admin. As the others like likes of user will give all the pages that the user like.
You can get list of pages from a simple Facebook Graph API Hit.
https://graph.facebook.com/{user-id}/accounts?access_token={access-token}
It will give a list of pages for user which he/she has created.
access_token is valid for an hour or less. What should someone do in order to get the details even after. I was trying to result get the result from
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/search?q=coffee&type=place¢er=37.76,-122.427&distance=1000&access_token=xyz
This worked for an hour or so but how do i get the result after an hour...without going for a login.