Is there any possible way to do this? I've made a lot of comments that I really want to archive on my own (so they'll be searchable and I can find what I've said in the past). Some of them were made in private groups, some of them were made in public groups, and some were made on personal posts.
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Do you think it is possible to use Facebook API to easily discover popular (viral) Public posts, such as: https://www.facebook.com/knox188/posts/10159451336160245
Or maybe even narrowing down these posts to a specific country. So you could see what's popular for example in Germany.
I'm thinking it would require parsing Public posts data from user profiles and then determining their popularity by running Graph search. But... that's a lot of data.
What do you think? Or maybe you know some free or paid tools that do that? Something like Newswhip Spike - but for user posts, not Facebook Pages
Thanks in advance!
I am very new to the Facebook graph API trying to explore the API but I'm finding it very difficult to understand how to proceed and what things I need inorder to achieve my goals.
What my goal is that I need to create an application which can take the facebook posts, videos of different public posts stored which are stored in the database and find out the impression counts of those posts. Which I'll need to store later in database.
Many different user's public posts will be stored in the database. From those URLs I need to fetch their insights data, Impressions etc. I have created an app in the facebook developers. Gone through documentation and played a bit with the explorer tool.
But I'm still not sure what things I need to do in order to achieve this. How do I need to proceed. Can anyone help me here?
Thanks in advance
We have developed a Social Media Marketing tool, which we had to update to Graph API v2.0 now.
Unfortunately, the v2.0 and higher include some changes, which have a terrible effect on our software.
As far as I understand, it's no longer possible to search for public posts. Also you may no longer request your own friends, as well as their public timeline. Also, it's no longer possiblie to query the public timeline or any public data by foreign persons. Another problem is that the username field is no longer available, so it will not work anymore to query the id of a user by the username. Is there any other way to do this?
And is it possible to get the feed via RSS?
Does anyone know whether these changes are final? Our existing software is dependent on this data. We develop it for 2 years and have customers who use our software. Does anyone have a similar problem and a solution for it?
Is there any statement from Facebook, why they made these API changes?
I'm very grateful about answers.
Christine
I want to embed a stream of facebook posts onto a web page that is comprised of posts all around facebook containing a specific hash tag, but I'm not quite sure how to go about it. I had to do the same with twitter and instagram, but those were all fairly easy to accomplish. I'm just kind of looking for the best option right now, not so much on specifics. I've seen a couple of times the graph api for facebook as an option, but every time I see those they seem to be from a year ago, so not sure if it's out of date or if there is a better option out by now. Any recommendations on ways to go about it would be greatly appreciated.
See my answer here on how you can use the Search API for hashtags:
Need help on employing Graph Search parameters for hashtag query on facebook
Basically, you can call
https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=%23selfie&type=post&access_token={user_access_token}
Be aware that you have to use v1.0 of the Graph API, because in v2.0 searching for public posts will no longer be possible (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/upgrading#upgrading_v2_0_graph_api):
Public post search is no longer available.
(/search?type=post&q=foobar)
Graph API v1.0 will only be available until 30th of April, 2015.
I have a question about weather something is or is not possible with Facebook's API.
Can a server side script have access to a users account and remove a tag associated with another person? Or remove photos that has a particular friend in it (obviously only if the person has been tagged)?
For instance maybe I want to remove all connections I have with another person, can the Facebook API graph allow me to do so if I specify the individual?
I am not looking for how to do so, I am first trying to find out if this is even possible. I have been pouring over documentation but it is something that I do not completely understand and I will not be the one writing code.
Any help or direction will be great, thanks!
No you can't unfriend a person through the API. Even deleting photos is impossible, unless the app created the photos in the first place. There are numerous other threads on SO about this, as well as forums posts about people that have struggled with problems in the recent past. You can't even delete a tag of a photo through the API even though DELETE methods exist in the documentation and indicate that it should work. When making the calls people receive oauth error results, and there is probably still a pending bug report about this behavior, but no expectation that FB plans to fix it anytime soon.
In general they are happy to let you add a lot of content, but they don't want to let you remove it -- and that goes double for the API.