Facebook API getting summary of likes in `/links` without deprecated FQL - facebook

Question

I'm trying to get the total likes count for posts by a specific user. I'm calling /photos /links and /statuses. When adding ?fields=likes.summary(true) I'm getting back the total sum of likes in /photos and /statuses, but this doesn't work.
How can I get summary of likes (total count) for links posted by a specific user?
I am aware of the option to use FQL, but that is deprecated. (fql?q=SELECT like_info, link_id,comment_info FROM link WHERE link_id IN() )

Answer 1

Use the links edge
me/links?fields=link,likes.summary(true)
The total_count field is the value you want. Although from the documentation
total_count represents the approximate number of nodes on the likes
edge. The actual number of results returned might be different
depending on privacy settings.
Sample data from my feed
{
"link": "http://www.quora.com/permalink/cyGokoKWB",
"id": "XXXXXXXXX",
"created_time": "2015-04-26T02:08:48+0000",
"likes": {
"data": [
{
"id": "XXXXXXXXX",
"name": "XXXXXXXXX"
}
],
"paging": {
"cursors": {
"before": "MTAxNTQ2NTI3OTIxOTA0Mzg=",
"after": "MTAxNTQ2NTI3OTIxOTA0Mzg="
}
},
"summary": {
"total_count": 1
}
}
}
EDIT
#CBroe in the comments has sound advice, for just like's count do a limit(0) so you don't unnecessarily fetch a lot of the likes data and just retrieve the count.
me/links?fields=link,likes.summary(true).limit(0)
Sample data
{
"link": "http://jdh.hamkins.org/transfinite-epistemic-logic-puzzle-challenge/",
"id": "XxXXXXXXXXX",
"created_time": "2015-04-19T04:00:18+0000",
"likes": {
"data": [
],
"summary": {
"total_count": 1
}
}
}