Is there a way to get link statistics for multiple URLs using only one GET request?
Something along the lines of https://graph.facebook.com?links=[link1,link2,link3]
I know how to get single link stats
Facebook
https://graph.facebook.com?id=mylink
Twitter
http://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=mylink
Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/countserv/count/share?format=json&url=mylink
There is not. Furthermore, Twitter will be removing their link statistics API call in November - see https://blog.twitter.com/2015/hard-decisions-for-a-sustainable-platform
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I made a website where people can post links for other websites and then the backend generates a preview of the link (by using curl and parsing out the open graph tags available on most websites / by picking the first image, html title etc). Now, fine after some tweaking but sometimes I get some kind of rate limit.
Here is one example of a link I want to parse: https://www.facebook.com/HBR/posts/10157131816732787
I can parse it 4 ou 5 times and get a title, image etc but then if I repeat it I get sent to the login page of facebook. How can I avoid this?
I tried to parse the link at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing however it says "Facebook URLs cannot be crawled". So my question is: how am I even supposed to parse those links if they don't even allow it on their debugger?
Is there any kind of API that allows me to get this information without user login? I don't want to parse entire facebook pages, profiles etc, just get a preview for a link that my users might post on the website.
You MUST use the Facebook Graph API if you want to get data of Facebook Pages (or anything else on Facebook), scraping is not allowed.
In order to get data of Pages you do not own, you need to apply for Page Public Content Access: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/review/feature/#reference-PAGES_ACCESS
An App Access Token (without Login) is sufficient in that case.
API Reference for Pages: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/page/
I dont think show.You can crawl post on public group using python selenium and beautiful soup
How can I query facebook's graph API to retrieve all user's likes (not only pages but also photos and others)?
For instance, how could I get all the pictures a user has liked? Using facebook's search bar you can find them easily by clicking on "photos has liked".
I wrote a script that scrapes the page content and does that but it's not very efficient.
I have recently come accross a similar problem, maybe this helps you solve it.
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/{page_id}/feed?fields=likes.limit(1).summary(true)&since={start_date}&until={end_date}&access_token={access_token}
This will give you a list of all posts that received likes during the specified time period. If you manage to write a code summing up the following JSON path you got your sum for "all user's likes":
data[0].likes.summary.total_count
Not entirely sure is this is exactly what you were searching for, hope it helps you though - and if not you, someone else.
As for likes you can also use the same way to extract Shares and Comments:
Shares
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/{page_id}/feed?fields=shares&since={start_date}&until={end_date}&access_token=
Comments
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/{page_id}/feed?fields=comments.limit(1).summary(true)&since={start_date}&until={end_date}&access_token=
Best regards
There isn't to my knowledge any way to get this from the API without grabbing every type of response from the API and then sorting through for likes. Facebook search bar uses an internal API different from the Graph API.
I was successfully able to get the RSS feed of a page in FB using this URL.
https://facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=PAGE_ID_HERE&format=rss20
It returns values in RSS format. Then using regular NSXMLParser methods or some so parsing protocols, I was able to parse them.But unfortunately it returns all the details of the page, such as Events, notes and etc.
I would like to get the events only. It is stated here, we can achieve it using Graph API once we obtain the general access token. My question is, can't we simply get the RSS feed for events in facebook page like the URL above? Please advise. Thank you.
It looks like the FB API and all RESTful methods of accessing data from Facebook are being retired in favour of the Graph API and FQL, whichever you prefer.
The Graph API way is to parse the JSON returned by:
https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_ID/events?access_token=TOKEN_HERE
After skim-reading the FQL docs, I can't find a way to do it using that. So, it looks like your best hope lies with the Graph API.
I would really like to know how to do this. We have a facebook page and have a livestream from this page on our website. Now we would like to have a list of events from the facebook page in the website as well. Is it posible at all?
I am trying to achieve similar functionality to the one shown here...http://blackmilkclothing.com/collections/leggings/products/circuit-board-grey-leggings
there fan page https://www.facebook.com/blackmilkclothing allows people to hash tag a photo and then populate it on their website like the link above.
Loading a series of tagged images from my facebook fan page to my website. I am not positive how this is acheived? I am assuming some kind of api process but any help in the right direction would be appreciated.
Thanks! All help is appreciated
See the 'tagged' connection of a Page in the Graph API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/
It returns a list of objects the page is tagged in, including photos
If you need background knowledge I suggest these links in particular:
Graph API overview: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
Page login: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/pages/
After a good bit of trial and error I've found the most efficient way to query photos tagged to a particular Facebook page is to use Facebook's FQL interface to retrieve a list of stream posts.
With FQL you can limit the queried objects to only those posts containing images (unlike with the higher-level Graph API calls which will return all posts, many of which may not have associated photos), and you'll also have more granular control over composition of the result set.
Keep in mind that Facebook doesn't have true hashtag support (only Facebook pages can be tagged), so to simulate the hashtag support that Black Milk Clothing encourages, you'll need to parse and filter the photo message text yourself.
As an alternative quick and easy solution, I've rolled the results of my efforts into a free online service called TagTray -- with TagTray I've added an interface for building and curating hashtag based galleries from Facebook, Instagram, and TwitPic (including application-level Facebook hashtag filtering) that can be framelessly embedded into a site with a few lines of JavaScript.
Is it possible to get an facebook profile picture under https using the new Graph API?
We run a site under https, but the profile picture returned by the facebook Graph API is always served as http (when using https://graph.facebook.com/XXX/picture, the request is redirects to http:// ...). The result is the dreaded mixed-content message.
Anybody know of a workaround?
Here is the fix:
you need to the parameter: return_ssl_resources=true
example:
https://graph.facebook.com/FB_UID/picture?return_ssl_resources=true
Use link 1 to get a high resolution image, link 2 to get an icon sized image where 'xxxx' refer to 'facebook_user_id'.
link 1 :
https://graph.facebook.com/xxxx/picture?type=large
link 2 :
https://graph.facebook.com/xxxx/picture?type=small
The Graph API is essentially a very basic API, it's probably not the most efficient method to grab images. A better alternative is to learn how to uSe "FQL" and create a FQL that grabs all the UID's profile pictures. This way, instead of hundred and hundreds of calls, which can be very slow, you grab all the info you need in one call.