I use this link:
https://www.facebookmarketingdevelopers.com/samples/adsreporting
to get results from insights api.
We have continuously running ads but I keep getting no data in this timerange no matter what date I select.
What could be the issue?
There could be many causes, such as:
You are querying a wrong ad account;
You happened to pick dates without data;
The date parameter format was not correct if you used certain dates;
Your ads got no delivery;
None of these have a high chance. But without further information, all I can do it to guess based on nothing.
Related
For example,
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.11/insights
For the aggregation period 'day', Does anyone know at what time does Facebook refresh that value?
I remember reading it to be around 8am, but I can't remember if it was accurate or where I read it.
When you check out the endtime you get inside the values (Graph API Explorer request for me?fields=insights.metric(page_stories); supply your own page access token), for all three periods (day/wekk/days_28) it is of the form
2018-02-19T08:00:00+0000
Same time portion in each case.
I am looking for a way to extract significant (number of attendees > threshold) near future (within the next week) local events exact location and time using Facebook Graph Search api.
If local cannot be done, i could just specify a city (Athens, GR for example) instead.
It would be absolutely great if the info could be extracted with one query, but i think this is too much to hope for.
What i have tried so far is:
search?fields=location,events,name&limit=300&q=athens&type=place
This produces a set of events with name relative to "athens" as well as exact location, but not the time or number of attendees or event name.
{event_ID}?fields=attending.limit(1).summary(true)
This produces the number of attendees for a specific event_ID.
The total number of significant (let's assume more than 300 attendees) event for a week's span in Athens, GR should not be very high, therefore i could manually query the API as a last resort solution.
Does anyone have any idea if/how what i am asking can be achieved?
Thank you very much in advance.
You can't do this just in one query although you can probably batch some requests (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/making-multiple-requests).
What I would do is:
Geo query to place: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v2.3#search
GET graph.facebook.com
/search?
q=coffee&
type=place&
center=37.76,-122.427&
distance=1000
Get the page_id and query for public events (batch): https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/page/events
Get attendants for those events (batch): https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.3/event/attending
I hope it helps.
is there any way to explore the Facebook Graph API by date range? Ex. to find all events on February?
I use following code, but I’m not sure, that’s correct request:
since=2015-01-28T00:00:00%2B0000&until=2015-01-30T00:00:00%2B00000
In this way, I get records for defined date range - ok, but there is missing events – a set is incomplete (despite it doesn’t exceed a limit of API). Why I can’t get all of results for given query?
Maybe do you know another method of filtering results by date?
thanks
There's no way to restrict the search results by since and until as far as I know.
For searching events, you can use the /search endpoint as described at
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v2.2#search
but I guess there's no further way to filter the results other than specifying the q parameter.
I'm trying to get events in Facebook that have a certain phrase or description in them. I'd like to not have the results filtered or limited, as the phrase is fairly specific.
As an example, the phrase I'm looking for is "UMvC3" (short for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3).
That said, I could run an FQL query (and subsequently enrich with a call to the Graph API, like so):
select eid from event where contains("umvc3") and start_time >= now()
order by update_time desc
This will give me upcoming events with "umvc3" in them as well as only ones occurring in the future (I'm not concerned with past events).
However, the selection is severely limited. For example, the following isn't returned in the search results:
https://www.facebook.com/events/595137740538545/
It clearly has "umvc3" in the description text.
I can perform a search using the Graph API, but that doesn't return the above result either. Additionally, I can't filter using the Graph API on the start_time or order the results in a manner where I can stop processing the result set once I get to a certain point.
Finally, there is the Public Feed API, which will give me the entire firehose (which isn't filterable, like Twitter's, unfortunately), so I'll have to filter in real-time, which could be near impossible.
That said, am I approaching this the wrong way, or is there no way to really get a comprehensive, exact set of results from the Facebook API for events?
Note: I'm using the access_token provided by the Graph Explorer in the tools section.
The description column of Event FQL table isn't indexable, thus the freestyle search on not indexable columns won't give any result.
The results you see by running the query you suggested gives only events where the 'umvc3' is in the name column, which is indexable.
The only option is to ask facebook for fulltext indexing this column which apparently won't happen. They surely won't open any column for using clause like 'LIKE' since the query execution will take a lot of time.
And the answer from Facebook developer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5824449/334522
Explanation:
I am able to query the Google Core reporting APIv3 using the client library to get data on pageviews for specific URLs of a website I am working on. I want to get data(pageviews) for each day within a specified range. So far I am simply looping through the range, sending individual request to the API. in each request I am setting the same value for the start date and the end date.
Problem:
Obviously this gets the job done, BUT it is certainly not the best way to go about it. Because, assumming I want to get data for the past 3 months for each of about 2000 URIs. Then I will need 360000 number of requests and that value is well over the limit quota defined by Google.
Potential solution: So one way I thought of solving this issue is probably to send a request setting start-date and end-date to be a week apart but the API will return a sum of the values rather than the individual values.
main question: So is there a way to insist that these values should not be added up and returned as a sum but rather returned (as associative array or something like that) separately for each.
I hope the question is clear and that there is a solution! Thank you!
Very straightforward:
Metric: ga:pageview, Dimension: ga:date, Set a filter for your pagepath, and set a start-date and end-date.
Example:
https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?ids=ga%3Axxyyzz&dimensions=ga%3Adate&metrics=ga%3Apageviews&filters=ga%3Apagepath%3D%3D%2Ffaq.html&start-date=2013-06-27&end-date=2013-07-11&max-results=50
This will return the pageviews for that the faq.html& page for each day in the time-frame.
You should check out the QueryExplorer. Great tool to find out how to structure queries.