I am trying to get information about a set of user posts (last 20 posts). For each post, I would like to simply get likes, comments and shares count.
So far I was able to get the like and comment count, but I had no luck in retrieving the share count.
This is the query I used:
https://graph.facebook.com/me?access_token=x&limit=20&fields=id,comments.limit(0).summary(true),likes.limit(0).summary(true)
I understand that there are ways to retrieve the share count using the object id, but I would like to refrain from making 20 different requests in order to obtain this field.
Is there any other way that I can make a single batch request to achieve this?
You can get share count through engagement field of the object, as mentioned here : https://stackoverflow.com/a/5700882/533399
For batching your requests, graph api already supports batch requests :
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/making-multiple-requests
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I am trying to get user likes in facebook. I can only get 100 at a time for some reason. i tried using the limit parameter in open graph syntax and it didn't help. I alwso tried writing an FQL query to get more likes and to no avail. No matter what I do, i get only 100 likes per request. It's even worse. Most of the likes are of no interest to me. I'm using only likes on several categories. if i could have gotten (using FQL) 100 likes of a user which are all of those categories, that would have been sufficient to me. But when I call the FQL query it seems that FB is querying on 100 first likes and returning the results instead of returning 100 results. I am despaired at this mechanism, is there a way out of this or is FB really gave no way to get more likes in a single call?
Read about paging in the docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v2.2?locale=en_GB#paging
I guess the max limit is 100, if you want to get more than that you have to make another call by using paging. There is no way to filter with the API, you will have to do that on your own after getting the likes.
I want to get the list of comments made by given user through Facebook Graph API.
I haven't found any direct way to get lists of comments. So, I tried to find them through my feed, but it's returning all feed posts. Can we filter other posts where I have not commented?
I tried various queries as below, but could not get exactly what I need.
/me/feed?fields=comments?fields=from?name="my_name",message
/me/feed?fields=comments.fields(from.name("my_name"),message)
I need either (1) list of all comments by me or else (2) lists of posts which I have commented on, filtering out all other posts.
How can we do this?
There's no way to filter via the Graph API. Basically what you want to achieve is IMHO not really possible.
What you could theoretically do is use the comment FQL table, but the field you'd need (fromid) is not indexable: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/comment/ So this could be tough.
i am using this endpoint
https://api.facebook.com/method/links.getStats?urls=
to collect the number of likes of specific urls. I want to display this information on a front end but do not want to make unnecessary API calls (there are over 25,000 posts). I would like to retrieve this information and store it so it can be retrieved from our database. On some pages, there will be over 10 of these accessible view a hover effect from a mouse. I would prefer to not have to load the page up with javascript targeted elements everywhere. It would be much easier to have the information stored and updated periodically. We will not be going over the impression limit or even coming close, but I would like to just make sure I'm not doing anything that will get me in trouble.
I would like permission to utilize this data to help increase pathways between our site and Facebook to allow people to share the page. I'm pretty sure we're doing everything correct but would just like to make sure and not step on anyone's toes.
I read through the checklist here
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/submission-process/
however I don't know if what I'm doing would be considered an app....? Any advice would be appreciated.
Have a look at my answer here: How do I get the likes number from facebook for a given url?
You can also use FQL queries with IN lists to query multiple URLs at once. Please consider that a FQL statement can have a maximum length of 2048 characters.
select url, like_count from link_stat where url in ('URL1', 'URL2', ...)
The "cheklist" you linked is completely unneccessary, because you don't need to submit anything related to OpenGraph objects or actions. You can even use the functionality without using an Access Token, because the link_stat table is public (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/link_stat/)
I need to get ALL user likes at once without pagination.
I could hit: graph.facebook.com/me/likes ...however, is there a limit to the # of objects returned by facebook? if so, what is that limit and can it be overwritten?
The default limit is something like 25 results. You can specify a limit by providing a limit parameter to facebook:
https://graph.facebook.com/me/likes?limit=100
Checkout the API Documentation under the heading "Paging".
That said, there's never a guarantee that you'll get all the likes at once, even if you set the limit parameter to be greater than or equal to the number of likes on an object.
On top of that, you'll often find that the number of likes reported on the Facebook website or by the Graph API is higher than what you can get by fetching the /likes connection in the Graph API. I'm trying (and failing) to find the SO question that talked about why that is, but if I remember right that number sometimes includes shares and other actions, not just likes.
You should use the pagination to page thru all the data that the Graph API can return.
I would like to retrieve the full newsfeed including historical data of a given user. In principal, this is straight forward using either an authenticated call to the Graph API or to the FQL API.
With the Graph API, I access the me/home endpoint. This results in 25 entries. I can iterate over the pages and retrieve around 8 pages back into history giving me around 200 entries. I write around 200 entries, because with each run through this I get a different number of total entries. Sometimes more, sometimes less.
With the FQL API, I call SELECT post_id, created_time, actor_id, message FROM stream WHERE filter_key = 'nf' AND is_hidden=0 AND created_time > 1262304000 LIMIT 500 where the created time reflects 1 Jan 2010. This gives me around 150 entries.
Both methods don't seem to allow to work your way backwards into history. In the FQL query, I also tried to play around with the created_time field and LIMIT to go backwards in small chunks but it didn't work.
The documentation of the stream table http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/stream/ says somehow cryptically:
The profile view, unlike the homepage view, returns older data from our databases.
Homepage view - as far as I understand - is another word for Newsfeed, so that might mean that what I want is not even possible at all?
To make things worse (but that's not the main topic of this question) the returned datasets from the two methods differ. Both contain entries that the other does not show but they also have many entries in common. Even worse, the same is true in comparison to the real newsfeed on the Facebook website.
Does anyone have any experience or deeper insights on this?
Maybe I am mis-understanding your question, but can't you simply call the graph api with /me/home?limit=5000 and then ?limit=5000&offset=5000 or whatever the max limit value Facebook allows is?