I am using the Facebook API from Java with Facebook4j.
I have two servers, on the one that uses Facebook 2.3 API when I get the from of a post,
Post post = connection.getFeed().get(0);
post.getFrom();
I get the user, but in the server that uses Facebook 2.4 API, the from is null.
Any idea? I don't see any documented change in the fb API.
As described in the Facebook Platform Changelog, as of v2.4, you now have to manually specify fields if you want them to be retrieved:
To try to improve performance on mobile networks, Nodes and Edges in
v2.4 requires that you explicitly request the field(s) you need for
your GET requests. For example, GET /v2.4/me/feed no longer includes
likes and comments by default, but GET
/v2.4/me/feed?fields=comments,likes will return the data. For more
details see the docs on how to request specific fields.
According to the docs on Post, the relevant field is named from. To request this field in the me feed using Facebook4J, you can use a Reading object, as follows:
facebook.getFeed(new Reading().fields("from"))
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I am trying to retrieve Store Visits data from the Facebook Insights API. Based on their documentation, these should be available by specifying the following parameters:
store_visit_actions
cost_per_store_visit_actions
When I use store_visit_actions as a parameter, no data is returned. I know data exists because it is displayed through their UI reporting tool.
When I use cost_per_store_visit_actions, I receive a 100 invalid param error:
cost_per_store_visit_actions is not valid for fields param.
These params are listed as "In Development", however, I'm retrieving other development parameters without issue. Is anyone facing the same issue or know how to fix?
this is because the metrics
store_visit_actions
cost_per_store_visit_actions
are deprecated in facebook api v11.0. You can checkout this link:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/changelog/version11.0/
I am using the LinkedIn Marketing Development Platform where I am trying to provide a list of company URNs to to the Ad Analytics API. However, when I try to provide a list of company URNs, it fails with status 400.
Analytics Finder endpoint docs
My request:
GET https://api.linkedin.com/v2/adAnalyticsV2?q=analytics&pivot=CAMPAIGN&dateRange.start.day=1&dateRange.start.month=1&dateRange.start.year=2017&timeGranularity=ALL&companies=urn:li:organization:1234,urn:li:organization:5678
Response:
{"message":"Array parameter 'companies' value 'urn:li:organization:1234,urn:li:organization:5678' is invalid. Reason: Deserializing output 'urn:li:organization:1234,urn:li:organization:5678' failed","status":400}
I have also tried URL encoding the URL, and providing the list via the parameter companies[0] as is done in other examples in the docs.
What is the correct way to input arrays to the LinkedIn API?
Edit: Changed accounts to companies
So the Protocol Version actually gave me some useful insight. There are a couple of ways of providing arrays in parameters.
From the docs:
For Restli V1.0 (used by default)
GET GET https://api.linkedin.com/people?ids=1&ids=2&ids=3
For Restli V2.0, which you can use by setting the following header: X-RestLi-Protocol-Version: 2.0.0
Pass parameters in List format.
GET https://api.linkedin.com/v2/people?ids=List(1,2,3,4)
However, I have not managed to get the Analytics Finder API to work with Restli V2.0.
You'll need to provide the list of URL encoded organization URNs to the accounts param. Using your request as an example:
&accounts=List(urn%3Ali%3Aorganization%3A1234,urn%3Ali%3Aorganization%3A5678)
I'm creating a custom module in Drupal, that for part of its functionality must fetch posts from a business page. So for simplicity, I'm using fbapp module as a dependency (drupal.org/project/fbapp), so that I can use it's authentication and request functions (fbapp_app_authenticate() and fbapp_graph_request()) without having to worry about the constant facebook graph updates making my own code obsolete.
I've created a facebook app, so authentication should be app token, using appid and app secret. This seems fine and I'm getting back access_token. However, when I try to read posts from a publicly available page (the clients), I get the response:
"Unsupported get request. Please read the Graph API documentation at https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/graph-api"
Here's the queries and responses my code produces:
graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=<redacted>&client_secret=<redacted>&grant_type=client_credentials
array(1) {
["access_token"]=>
string(43) "<redacted>|<redacted>"
}
graph.facebook.com/<page_id>/posts?access_token=<redacted>|<redacted>"
string(183) "{"error":{"message":"Unsupported get request. Please read the Graph API documentation at https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/graph-api","type":"GraphMethodException","code":100}}"
Can anyone verify a correct way to query a Facebook page programmatically, perhaps there's a setting in the page I'm querying that I need to set (although I can't find anything)?
If page restrictions apply, the page's feed can only be retrieved with an user access token as far as I know (because FB needs to evaluate the visibility criteria, and setting your app to the same restrictions doesn't help here):
See
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.4/page/feed#readperms
It looks like everything you have done is correct. The response you got can be (i am not sure) because you got your clients pageid wrong.
Given the URL of a public Facebook post, how can one find the post object in the FB Graph API? (secondarily, why are so many user feeds empty or nearly empty when accessed through the API?)
We would like to be able to comment on or like a post via the v2.x
Graph API, given the post's URL. Doing so requires the post's object
ID, which we can make some educated guesses about, but accessing
the actual object through the API has proven unreliable (works for some posts but
not others).
v2 of the API introduced app-scoped user IDs, and post IDs generally seem
to be of the form {app-scoped user id}_{unique post id}. Here are the
details of some attempts to find posts in the API with various combinations of
these IDs (global user id, app-scoped user id, and post id).
Starting with a simple example: https://www.facebook.com/evan.prodromou/posts/10153023417510505. Key characteristics are that it's public, it's not a share of another post, and most importantly it has no photo(s), which add extra ids and URLs for the individual photo(s) and photo set. Evan's profile is also public, i.e. https://www.facebook.com/evan.prodromou doesn't show the generic This content is currently unavailable
Trying the bare post id from that URL, /v1.0/10153023417510505 and /v2.2/10153023417510505 both give the Unsupported get request (code 100) error.
Evan's global user id is 525575504. Attaching that as a prefix, /v1.0/525575504_10153023417510505 and /v2.2/525575504_10153023417510505 still both give the same Unsupported get request error.
Same error using his app-scoped user id instead, /v2.2/10152350676805505_10153023417510505.
OK let's try the other direction. We'll page through the user's feed until we find the post in question. It feels like this is more the expected use case for the API...
Both the global /v2.2/525575504/posts and app-scoped /v2.2/10152350676805505/posts return nothing, but /v1.0/525575504/posts returns two recent posts, this like and this post. Not sure why only those two, even though has plenty of other recent public posts. The like is fetchable via its id field in both api versions, i.e. /v1.0/525575504_10153045879215505 and /v2.2/10152350676805505_10153045879215505, but both API versions return the Unsupported get request error when fetching the post via its id field, e.g. /v1.0/525575504_351575675029953 and /v2.2/10152350676805505_351575675029953
Trying another public post, this one with pictures: https://www.facebook.com/andigalpern/posts/678121182314631 . /v1.0/100003502653187_678121182314631, /v2.2/100003502653187_678121182314631, and /v2.2/499657186827699_678121182314631 all error.
/v1.0/100003502653187/posts only includes one post, a like, and /v2.2/100003502653187/posts is empty.
For reference, here is the GitHub issue where we have been tracking this problem.
Basically you would need read_stream for this (which your app will not get granted). And yes, even though the post is public, you still need read_stream to be able to get read access to all kinds of posts.
You can easily play around with this in Graph API Explorer. First give your app read_stream permission to get ids of items in your feed – that will give you ids of the “form app-scoped user id underscore post id”. Then remove read_stream (by clicking “Get Access Token” again and using the “Clear” button), and try several of the user_* permissions – and you will see that for most of your posts, even the public ones, you will still only get “Unsupported get request”, which just means you are not allowed to read that object.
F.e., I have a public post where shared a video post from another page on my timeline, the type is video and status_type is shared_story, but neither user_status nor user_videos allow me to read this post – only when I grant read_stream again, my app can read that post. Same with another public post of type status and status_type mobile_status_update – readable with read_stream, not with any of the user_* permissions.
In short: What you want to achieve is not possible any more with API v2 and the restriction that read_stream will only be granted to apps on platforms where no official FB client exists.
A one proposition is to make api calls to write facebook posts since those return valid post_id that you could use
Second,
When you try https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/256884317673197/?method=GET&path=525575504%2Fposts&version=v2.0&
You can see that his posts ID's are not starting with his public id as you wrote 525575504_*
but they still put unsupported get request
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/256884317673197/?method=GET&path=10152853212485505_351575675029953&version=v2.0
Third since above doesnt work are those posts public for sure?
The problem is that after v2.1 of graph api fql will be deprecated.
Can someone tell me how to get separate likes, share count for given url using only graph api? I was looking for some documentation, but there isn't any, i can get only total "shares" which is likes + shares + comments.
Yes i know there is immortal http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls, but what if facebook shuts it down at last?
The REST API (with calls like http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls) was announced as deprecated with the introduction of the Graph API v2.1: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog#v2_1_deprecations but also already in 2011: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/616/
So, from my understanding, this will yield in the inoperability of this feature at two years after the introduction of v2.1 on 7th August 2016:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/versions#howlong
The closest you can get to the "old" REST of FQL API call results with the Graph API is this afaik:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.3/url/
but it omits the like_count metric (don't ask me why...).
My personal opinion is that you should continue to use the FQL calls to the link_stat (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/link_stat/) table, because this will be available for nearly the next 2 years. This is only possible if you have a v2.0 app. Maybe there'll be some additional endpoints for the Graph API until then.
I suggest using a tool like SharedCount, it offers a lot more platforms too. Here is how they get the data: http://www.sharedcount.com/documentation.php (Scroll down to "Sources")
So for Facebook it would be like this:
https://api.facebook.com/method/links.getStats?urls=%%URL%%&format=json
You get a JSON object like this one:
..."share_count":66,"like_count":15,"comment_count":1,"total_count":82...
Edit: This is deprecated now, but there is another possibility, explained in this thread: Get FB likes, shares and comments for a URL using PHP - with no limit
You can use facebook graph api like https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://mycodingtricks.com and it will return a json code like
{
"http://mycodingtricks.com":{
"id":"http://mycodingtricks.com",
"shares":1
}
}
I have developed my own php script on which you can all social count using that api.
http://mycodingtricks.com/share/social.php?url=YOUR-URL-HERE and it will return data like:
{
"facebook":[
{
"share_count":1,
"like_count":0,
"comment_count":0,
"total_count":1,
"click_count":0,
"comments_fbid":567687199998199,
"commentsbox_count":0
}
],
"googleplus":10,
"twitter":3,
"buffer":0,
"pinterest":0,
"stumblupon":1,
"reddit":"<html><body><h1>403 Forbidden<\/h1>\nRequest forbidden by administrative rules.\n<\/body><\/html>\n",
"linkedin":0
}
But if you wants to use on your own Here is a complete article about how to count facebook share,like and all.
http://mycodingtricks.com/php/2-ways-to-count-facebook-likes-shares-and-comments-using-php/
actually the correct way for getting the like number is this:
http://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/?id=YOUR_URL&fields=og_object{engagement}
the brackets after the og_object is the second level of og_object.
see documentation here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/url
you might need to encode the url and brackets so it will look something like:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/?id=ENCODED_URL&fields=og_object%7Bengagement%7D&id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com
see a working example in
graph explorer (hit the submit button)
All answers are wrong or incomplete since latest shut down of API 2.1!
I am the author of the social media plugin MashShare and i recently had to do exact observations for this issue as it seriously affected the share count of our plugin.
Verified data by observations:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.7/?id=https://www.mashshare.net contains shares and likes.
As far as i found out the only way to get a number near the real share count of a post is to get first the likes of a url. Than take this number and subtract it from the total number of shares and likes.
To get the like count you need to take the object id of the url and create another API request:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.7/14206851986099/likes?summary=true
If you know how to merge both requests into one please let me know.
As of August 19th 2016 facebook completely shutdown their rest API.
The only alternative is to use the graph API as suggested above.