FACEBOOK API: Get likes of particular post on page - facebook

Question

I want to get likes on post on the page: "The Jungle Book"
I am able to get the likes of the page using url:
https://graph.facebook.com/" + pageId + "?fields=likes&access_token=" + ACCESS_TOKEN
I have read the documentation
and find that i will get the likes(total count) of the post only returned when the flag summary=true is set
The response should look like this
{
"likes": <somecount>,
"id": "151505938209071_1507814655911519"
}
I am able to get the likes on page but not able to get total number of likes on the particular post on that page.
Can anyone help me regarding how I should set the URL or is there any other way to do it.

Answer 1

From what you described it sounds like it should be like this:
https://graph.facebook.com/" + pageId + "?fields=likes&summary=true&access_token=" + ACCESS_TOKEN
The above is your existing URL with summary=true in between the fields=likes and access_token parameters
However you may be interested in this answer
Quote:
Couldn't find this in the documentation but multiple calls to the API are not necessary. You can use summary when querying a feed or multiple posts. Specify this in the fields parameter.
https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_ID/feed?fields=comments.limit(1).summary(true),likes.limit(1).summary(true)
This will return a response like this.
{
"data": [
{
....
"summary": {
"total_count": 56
}
...
},
{
....
"summary": {
"total_count": 88
}
...
}
]
}
This will be much faster than making individual requests for each object just to get the number of comments or likes.