I am using the Facebook API to pull data in JSON format.
I need to pull the new likes growth from the pages that im not an admin.
$pageContent1 = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/' . $page . '/?fields=emails,about,website,category,likes.summary(true),location,new_like_count,name,were_here_count,cover,phone,posts&access_token=' . $token . '');
$parsedJson1 = json_decode($pageContent1);
You can only get this if you do one call on day one, and then another calls for every subsequent days if you're not an admin of the page.
See
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/insights/#reading
The only publically available insight metrics are page_fans_country and page_storytellers_by_country, but they are both lifetime metrics, meaning that you only get the absolute value.
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We try to use Server-Side API to push custom events to our pixel in order to create event-based Custom Audiences in Facebook Ads (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/facebook-pixel/server-side-api/)
We use _fbp cookie value to match users (it's a first party cookie created on our website by FB pixel).
For example (Python):
from facebook_business.api import FacebookAdsApi
from facebook_business.adobjects.adspixel import AdsPixel
my_app_id = 'X'
my_app_secret = 'X'
my_access_token = 'X'
my_pixel_id = 'X'
FacebookAdsApi.init(access_token=my_access_token, app_id=my_app_id, app_secret=my_app_secret)
fields = []
params = {
'data': [{'event_name': 'icrm_test_20191113_fbp_1m', 'event_time': 1573230217, 'user_data':{'fbp': 'fb.1.1558571054389.1098115397'}}]
}
print(AdsPixel(my_pixel_id).create_event(fields=fields, params=params))
The problem is, when we create a Custom Audience in Facebook Ads, the size of the list is always < 1000, even if we push hundreds of thousands of cookie IDs, which means Facebook matched a very low % of cookies, which were sent.
Custom Audience definition based on server-side event:
List size is always <1000, no matter how many fbp cookies are sent:
It seems like there is some kind of an issue matching _fbp cookies to Facebook user profiles. Is there any known way of improving/fixing matching results? We can't use hashes of sensitive data.
External_id matching (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/facebook-pixel/server-side-api/parameters) also gave us similar results.
The event time you are using there translates to 11/08/2019 # 4:23pm (UTC).
So they're not gonna get included in your 30 day window.
Try importing time
import time
Then set
'event_time': int(time.time())
I'm pretty new to programming and I'm currently trying to use the InsightsAPI of Facebook in order to extract our performance data. The problem is that the response of the API call is limited to 25 entries.
I use the following code for the call:
String access_token = "xxx";
String ad_account_id = "yyy";
setApp_secret("zzz");
APIContext context = new APIContext(access_token).enableDebug(false);
APINodeList<AdsInsights> response = new AdAccount(ad_account_id, context).getInsights()
.setLevel(AdsInsights.EnumLevel.VALUE_CAMPAIGN)
.setBreakdowns(Arrays.asList(AdsInsights.EnumBreakdowns.VALUE_COUNTRY))
.setTimeRange("{\"since\":\"2017-09-01\",\"until\":\"2017-09-30\"}")
.requestField("account_id")
.requestField("campaign_id")
.requestField("impressions")
.requestField("clicks")
.execute();
How can I extend the limit of the response? I found some information about how to do this via curl but there were no hints on how to do this with java. Would be great if anyone of you could help me!
All the best,
Paul
All the responses of Graph API are paginated which means you will get at most 'x' number of results where 'x' is 25 by default at the moment.
You can specify a higher value using limit param but it is not recommended as it is likely to cause a timeout.
You should look into using pagination instead: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/#paging
I am manually building a login system to my application using facebook. Following this tutorial I am told to do some get requests to obtain user information. Echoing an returned token I obtain this
(using FILE_GET_CONTENTS() ):
$access_token = "graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=$client_id&redirect_uri=$redirect_uri&client_secret=$client_secret&code=$user_code") :
echoing $access_token:
access_token = CAAKlMMCiHp(...)ZByh3faLzh &expires=5125282
or this for an app_token ("graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=$client_id&client_secret=$client_secret&grant_type=client_credentials") :
echoing $app_token:
access_token = 744(...)90|vZU2(...)e0-s
The last one to obtain the user information that I have to do is this:
$last_one = "graph.facebook.com/debug_token?access_token=$access_token&app_token=$app_token";
Check above that I have to use $access_token and app_token. The problem is that when I echo $access_token what I obtain is literally access_token = xxxx..., including the "access_token" and the "=" sign instead of just the token.
So, when I try to do my last request ($last_one) I have (with variable replacement):
$last_one = "graph.facebook.com/debug_token?access_token=access_token=xxx&app_token=app_token=xxxx";
To avoid this I removed the first "access_token=" and "app_token=" and successfully eliminated the duplicate. Unfortunately I now have access_token=xxx&access_token=xxx because although one is literally for access and another is to the app both are treated as access_token and their echo also explicits "access_token =" as shown above.
My question is if this is supposed to happen and how can I get only the token? I find it kind of ridiculous to have the need of using substr() just to eliminate the first part of the token "access_token =". Am I supposed to reach the token by a getter part of file_get_contents()? And should I include &expires=xxxx of the first token in the last request? Please refer and shortly read the tutorial from "Confirming identities" to understand what is my dilema. I hope I made myself through, thank you very much!
I want to get the userNames of people in my friends list . How can i achieve that ?
I am using
https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends&access_token=...
This is returning me a json response with all the Name and IDnumber ? I want somehow to get the Username ( Not userID ) ?
There is one way that I access each ID and then get the userName but that will take so long considering I have 500 friends. Is there some shorter way / easier way to do that ?
Ask for the username in the fields parameter:
https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?fields=username&access_token=...
I can't seem to find anything in the API to get a list of user profiles. But one possible solution is to use batch requests. You can combine each individual user profile request into one large batch. It's still cumbersome, but better than making a separate HTTP request for each friend.
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2011/03/17/batch-requests-in-graph-api/
For example:
$batched_request = '[
{"method":"GET","relative_url":"friend_id_1"},'.'{"method":"GET","relative_url":"friend_id_2"}
]';
$post_url = "https://graph.facebook.com/" . "?batch=" . $batched_request
. "&access_token=" . $access_token . "&method=post";
I am creating a Facebook application that will download all the photos in an album. The application is created for my personal use and at the same time, learn the Facebook API and JSON.
I can already retrieve the URL of the photos inside an album by calling this url:
http://graph.facebook.com/[album id]/photos?fields=source
The album that I'm trying to download contains 5400+ photos so I tried increasing the limit by adding the limit parameter:
http://graph.facebook.com/[album id]/photos?fields=source&limit=1000
Here's the problem:
The results being returned are only until 2010-07-30T11:20:11+0000. When I tried to modify the query by using the until parameter like so:
http://graph.facebook.com/[album id]/photos?fields=source,link&limit=1000&until=2010-06-01
the data responded correctly. However, if I changed the date to something like 2010-08-05, the latest photo returned will have a created_date of 2010-07-30T11:20:11+0000.
The last photo returned is photo #5000 out of 5695.
Here's my question:
Is the data acquired from Facebook GRAPH Api real-time (or a Monthly update, 2010-07-30)? Or there's just a limit on the number of photos returned on album (like 5000)?
Thanks!
EDIT
There is a 5000 object limit in Facebook. If you know how to break the limit, go here:
Breaking the 5000 object limit in Facebook API
Thanks!
There is indeed 5000 limit on returned objects. You would need to run multiple FQL queries on photo table ordering and limiting the results (<5000) to get all the data (check photo table page for examples). (doesn't work)
When I look at the photos in the graph query you linked
https://graph.facebook.com/119403264763178/photos
I see paging information at the bottom. So, hacking together a quick test
$request = 'http://graph.facebook.com/119403264763178/photos?fields=source&limit=1000';
$response = json_decode( file_get_contents( $request ), true );
$totalCount = 0;
while ( count( $response['data'] ) )
{
echo 'Fetching ' . urldecode( $response['paging']['next'] ) . '<br>';
$totalCount += count( $response['data'] );
$response = json_decode( file_get_contents( $response['paging']['next'] ), true );
}
echo $totalCount;
It would seem that even following the paging data, you can still only retrieve 5000 records.
I'd suggest hitting up the FB forums or opening a bug ticket.