Getting Video View Count from Facebook APIs - facebook

Question

I'm trying to figure out which (if any) API will allow me to access Video View Count (views for a given facebook video). I've looked through the documentation for Atlas, Graph, and Marketing API but I can't seem to find any API call that would return this metric.
Was this stripped from the APIs after the issues surrounding the authenticity of the metrics arose a few months back?

Answer 1

Simply do an insights request for the post that includes the video. There are many metrics, all documented here.
You'll also need enough permissions to the page; you cannot look at someone else's posts' insights (therefore the example below will return empty data).
For example 127615610597242_1608135349211920/insights/post_video_views
Example output:
{
"data": [
{
"name": "post_video_views",
"period": "day",
"values": [
{
"value": 1111,
"end_time": "2016-11-24T08:00:00+0000"
},
{
"value": 2222,
"end_time": "2016-11-25T08:00:00+0000"
},
{
"value": 3333,
"end_time": "2016-11-26T08:00:00+0000"
}
],
"title": "Daily Total Video Views",
"description": "Daily: Total number of times your video was viewed for more than 3 seconds. (Total Count)",
"id": "127615610597242_1608135349211920/insights/post_video_views/day"
},
{
"name": "post_video_views",
"period": "lifetime",
"values": [
{
"value": 44444
}
],
"title": "Lifetime Total Video Views",
"description": "Lifetime: Total number of times your video was viewed for more than 3 seconds. (Total Count)",
"id": "127615610597242_1608135349211920/insights/post_video_views/lifetime"
}
]
}