I'm looking for a graph API that returns me a list of previous name that were changed by the user.
One Way to do it manually is by going to Settings of your profile -> Download a copy of your Facebook data.
In the HTML files obtained it clearly mentions the previous names changed.
My question is there a graph API for the same ??
Thank you.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/real-time-updates/
There are fields for name, first name and last name. You can only subscribe to updates, but afaik there is no way to get past changes. But since you are required to use your real name on Facebook, it should not happen very often - unless you marry a lot ;)
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I've been looking through the Facebook-graph API for a way to get a kind of 'delta' of friend changes since a given date. it looks like the /<id>/friends end point will give me a total count at the current time. What I'd like is that same value but for a historic date (i.e. where the date is this time last year, so that I can see how many friends someone has made/lost since then).
(I was originally hoping Facebook would just let me see when people became friends, but it looks like a user's friends list, and all the related details, are off limits).
Unfortunately I can't just rely on the use of future dates, though that may be the solution I end up with (as in, I request the count at the current date, and then at some point in the future request it again and compare the difference).
I can see from my own Facebook account that they do track when a friend/connection was made, and I'm not looking to dig up details on the friend/connection. Ideally I'm looking for something like /<id>/friends?asat=<date>
As a follow up question assuming this feature isn't available through the facebook-graph API, how would I go about requesting this feature for a future version?
There is no way to get the history, you can only call the API endpoint on a regular basis and store the difference with date on your own.
Feature requests can be sent here: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/268228883256323
...although, i doubt that they will implement this, to be honest. Those kind of "insights" are usually only available for Pages, but not for User Profiles.
Getting other details is easy, but there doesn't seem to be any API accessible way to get a list of users (or even approximate users) for the audience. You can add them, and delete them (?!) but not enumerate all the users in the list.
Is that truly the case, or am I missing something?
According to the documentation here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ads-api/custom-audience-targeting/ you should be able to see an approximate count.
There is no way to get the users back from the custom audience list by design.
For the audiences you never upload raw contact data. You always have to hash it via SHA256 and send the feed to Facebook that way. Since you have not provided the actual contact information like email, phone number facebook won't give those back to you it would be an information breach in a way.
If what you are asking is whether you can retrieve back the hashes that you have sent, I have not been able to find a way it on the API so I assume they think that you already have that list since you uploaded it in the first place.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/audiences-api/
I'm developer for marketing company and I need some help with facebook ads. I've been trying to find method for getting data AUTOMATICALLY from facebook campaign that's created by the user.
I'm trying to create script that would get data for server.
So basically I need to get Impressions, Clicks and "Cost of clicks" from each day from facebook-ad-campaigns just by having user login data (username,password) and maybe the id-number of campaign being targeted.
Also if possible I'd like to know how you can shut down campaign(when cost of clicks is greater than budged used).
Are these operations possible? Can I use PHP/FQL for it? Can I get these via Url? If I need to use FQL, what tables I need to fetch data? Anything that can be performed without manually logging to facebook? If so, could I get some example code to do it for me? If it has something to do with Access Tokens, what kind of access rights do I need to grant for it?
Can it be possible to ask more questions in one question than you just did? Wow.
Answers are in order of them asked above. But I will not be answering any followup questions in this thread.
For most of your information can be found at: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ads-api/
In your code, set a trigger when it has reached that value in the adstatistics, then use the Ads API to shut it down using the pause feature
Yes, use the Ads API. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ads-api/
For some parts of it you can, for other parts you'll use Graph API object.
Yes, that's how the graph works.
Tables are listed in the documentation at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ads-api/
Nope.
Yep, example codes are there.
Yes, it sure does.
see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/permissions
Small problem here. I have an event created on Facebook and am using the Graph API to get the number of attendees.
I get the list of attendees with PHP from https://graph.facebook.com/EVENTID/attending?access_token=TOKENHERE and it returns a list of names.
However, the number of attendees is about 6 people lower than what is shown on the Facebook event page. Why would these numbers not match? Is there something in particular I'm supposed to do in the code to get the entire list?
As answered in the comments:
This discrepancy is probably down to a number of the attendees having opted out of Facebook Platform, which means their data isn't passed to apps via the API. Can't be 100% sure without the Event ID, but its a likely reason. – Simon Cross
From the Graph API, the people who have not joined the event will not show up under /{eventid}/attending, you need to add in the users who are returned in /{eventid}/not_replied. The not_replied set seems to be a special set in the GraphAPI.. and if you look at the docs, there is a mention of only people who have joined the event.
I am using the Facebook Graph API and Facebook Connect to make an authentication system in Wordpress. The Connect part goes all ok, the Facebook Graph goes ok as well.
But: How do I fetch the Facebook Alternate Name? I searched the docs at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/user/, but found no trace of it. Any ideas?
The main idea is that privacy is a concern, and the system goes better nickname based than just last name based. If the Alternate Name is empty I just ask the user to enter a nickname.
I think that it is not exposed yet, when i was looking for this, i made a work around...
I know that if you use the search_tokens field at user table, the array will have the alternate name... If you have luck, the array will contain the first, middle, last, and the alternative name, so, compare the arrays to the names, and exclude the know names, the other one is the alternative name....
Look this bug:
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/371978199536659/