I am trying to update a client's code which pulled user's images from Facebook graph API.
I would like to pull the all the items from '/me/feed' if possible, but reading the SDK docs it looks like the feed is separate from the photos now.
The original client used v2.2 and would return a property images containing an array of images that were tied to the post.
"images": [
{
"height": 960,
"source": "https://scontent.xx...",
"width": 720
},
{
"height": 800,
"source": "https://scontent.xx...",
"width": 600
},
...
]
With v2.6 it seems the most I can get is a cover photo using full_picture as a field. '/me/feed?fields=id,message,full_picture,created_time' but this neglects the four other images on the post. There is a separate photos edge but it doesn't appear to have any way to just get the images for a specific post.
I would appreciate any suggestions on how to go about getting all feed items and their corresponding images. Thank you.
You can get the same images by doing another query on the object_id. NOTE: This is different then the actual id, which is what I was searching on before
From /me/feed?fields=id,object_id
From /{object_id}?fields=images
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I am attempting to display the latest post from a public Facebook page on a website using the graph API.
Using the following URL, I am able to get the latest posts data:
https://graph.facebook.com/MYPAGENAME/posts?access_token=MYACCESSTOKEN
Which returns:
{
"data": [
{
"story": "MYPAGENAME added a new photo.",
"created_time": "2017-08-20T19:00:00+0000",
"id": "MYID"
}
...
The post in question displays on the Facebook page with a photo included, but there is not 'photo' object (or anything similar) returned in the API data. How do I access the picture URL for this post? Thanks in advance.
This request will fetch posts and the media information for the first image for each post.
/posts?fields=attachments{media}?access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
Sometimes posts contain multiple images. If you'd like to support that you need to fetch the subattachments also:
/posts?fields=attachments{subattachments{media}}?access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
Note that this method usually only provides image URLs that are up to 720px wide. If you want higher resolution imagery, you need to access data[0].attachments.data[0].subattachments.data[0].target.id to get the actual image ID which you can then use to perform an additional query /IMAGE_ID_HERE?fields=images to obtain the higher resolution image. Increment the numbers to get additional posts and images inside each post.
Insights API works properly for link feed but it doesn't work for photo feed. For photo feed, Insights API returns 0 or empty even though Insights page shows a high reach and engagement rate.
Here is the url pattern of my photo feed:
https://www.facebook.com/[PAGE]/photos/a.xxx.xxx.[PAGE ID]/[POST ID]/
Insights API returns:
{
"id": "[PAGE ID]_[POST ID]/insights/post_story_adds_by_action_type_unique/lifetime",
"name": "post_story_adds_by_action_type_unique",
"period": "lifetime",
"values": [
{
"value": [
]
}
],
"title": "Lifetime Talking About This (Post) by action type",
"description": "Lifetime: The number of unique people who created a story about your Page post by interacting with it. (Unique Users)"
}
I've been struggeling with the same questions... one thing I can tell you is, that you most likely used a wrong id for you photo post.
Please ensure that you ONLY use ID's retrieved by a facebook api. So this is a sample process:
1. Note your page-id
2. Use GRAPH to query <url-to-graph>/<page_id>/feed?access_token=<your_token>
3. From the response, take the photo-post-id you want to analyze
4. Use GRAPH to query <url-to-graph>/<id_from_step_3>/insights/?access_token=<your_token>
5. Check the metrics returned from step 4 and enjoy!
Please keep in mind that there's an undocumented need to add your page_id to any post_id. So every replacement of {post-id} as it is written in the FB api's will be _.
Hope that helps...
When I ask for photos in certain albums I receive only part of the images, while when I use facebook.com I can see them all.
For example: /3738185490005/photos?fields=id returns 4 images:
{
"data": [
{
"id": "3805142683893",
"created_time": "2012-06-05T20:11:54+0000"
},
{
"id": "3744666692031",
"created_time": "2012-05-25T18:40:26+0000"
},
{
"id": "3738416375777",
"created_time": "2012-05-24T14:41:45+0000"
},
{
"id": "3738185530006",
"created_time": "2012-05-24T13:41:37+0000"
}
]
}
When I look at Facebook itself I see 9 images. Also when I look at the album call: /3738185490005 I see "count": 9. All images in this album are shared with Friends. I have seen this with multiple kinds of albums, but it happens most (as far as I can see) with Mobile Uploads or Instagram albums.
What can cause this?
try /3738185490005/photos?fields=id&limit=100
Even with a valid access_token with right set of permissions, FacebookClient does not get ALL of the photos for given album id
To ADD "user_checkins" to the scope collection to get all of the photos that are in a given album. Please follow the link above.
Strange. I made an app, and nothing like that happened.. For the album that is not hidden to the user, all pics of that album are shown.
To be in the safe side, try using the access token along with the api call.
I have an issue with Facebook OpenGraph API. Whenever I request data using either '/home' or '/feed', none of the posts from Instagram showed up.
I've been googling around and apparently some people raised the same issue with no solution yet. And I read some that the issue not only affecting posts from Instagram, but also other third-party app/device/platform.
Even the ticket posted on Facebook's dev page seems somewhat dead (no continuation). Link: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/110563582419837/
If any of you guys also stumbled on this issue and has some ideas/pointers/links, please do share and let's discuss it.
Much appreciated. Cheers!
There are two bug reports in Facebook's bug tracker about this:
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/110563582419837 and https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/202119973248747
The core reason is that the photos are attached to Open Graph actions as User Generated Photos and not via the regular Photo upload API.
As such, the regular photos permissions don't grant access to them and you need the user to specifically allow you the access their Open Graph activity for the app that posted the actions. The bug reports above are accepted on the basis that this appears to be an oversight in the case of actions with user generated photos, but it could also be by design in which case what i've outlined below as a workaround would be the only supported way to do this:
If you specifically need to request Instagram (or another Open Graph photos app) photos for a user, you can ask for Permission to access the actions posted by that app.
For Instagram photos you can do this by requesting the user_actions:instapp permission and once you've done that the Instagram Photos album will no longer appear to be empty, and the Instagram activity will appear in the feed connection.
To find out the namespace for an arbitrary app, access https://graph.facebook.com/<APP ID> and look for the namespace field,
e.g. for instagram, a call to https://graph.facebook.com/124024574287414/?fields=id,namespace returns:
{
"id": "124024574287414",
"namespace": "instapp"
}
A sample photo from my own /feed connection, retrieved with the read_stream, user_photos, user_actions:instapp permissions, is:
{
"data": [
{
"id": "[SNIPPED]",
"from": {
"name": "[SNIPPED]",
"id": "[SNIPPED]"
},
"picture": "[SNIPPED]",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=[SNIPPED]",
"icon": "https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yb/x/StEh3RhPvjk.gif",
"privacy": {
"value": ""
},
"type": "photo",
"object_id": "[SNIPPED]",
"application": {
"name": "Instagram",
"namespace": "instapp",
"id": "124024574287414"
},
"created_time": "2013-01-07T17:33:04+0000",
"updated_time": "2013-01-07T17:33:04+0000",
"comments": {
"count": 0
}
},
I can also access the /photos connection of my 'Instagram Photos' album with the same permissions, and can access all Instagram 'take' actions (i.e the photos) at /me/instapp:take
Facebook employee here. Looking at the internal task that is tracking this issue, all I can say at this time is that this is an issue that we are currently aware and investigating into. If you would like to be notified of any updates, be sure to click "subscribe" on the bug report.
For the time being, I recommend finding the album ID of the user named "Instagram Photos", then calling a GET request to /INSTAGRAM_ALBUM_ID/photos to get their Instagram photos. On the Graph API Explorer tool, I confirm that I am able to fetch all of my instagram pictures. Since my album is public, you should be able to view them as well.
We're working on developing a program that will (hopefully) automatically swap out creative with new creative once a certain like threshold is met (i.e. if 100 people like the page, something new appears). Can we add coding so our system is able to tell how many "likes" are generated? I know that the number of likes are displayed, I'm just not sure if there is a way for a program to actually read how many likes there are.
I don't see if in any of the Facebook attributes in the developer's platform.
What you'll have to do is acquire an access token for your page and then query the facebook platform for the number of likes periodically (possibly with a cron job of sorts).
You can read more about how to get the page access token at this URL
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/
Facebook has given us a great took to help us mine all the data it holds - its called the Graph API Explorer and with it you can see what data will be returned when you query the API. When you query the API with only the page_id you'll get a response similar to this :
{
"id": "XXXXXXXXX",
"name": "My Awesome Page",
"picture": "foo.jpg",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/pages/XXXXXXXX",
"likes": 345,
"category": "Product/service",
"website": "XXXXXXX",
"founded": "2011",
"description": "...",
}
For more information about how to use the Graph API you can see this link :
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
Facebook does provide good documentation:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/
As you can see there, there is a field "likes" containing the number (count) of likes for a page.