Facebook Ad Report tool allows to select from wide selection of columns for displaying. One of them is Website Clicks, which is defined like this:
The number of clicks on links appearing on your ad or Page that direct people to your sites off Facebook as a result of your ad.
How to obtain this column from Facebook API? The official documentation at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/adreportstats/v2.2 doesn't mention this type of column. Is there any workaround?
You'll find them under the action response field if you use the field 'actions_group_by' set to 'action_type'. They will appear as 'link_click'.
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Is there any way to log the referrer Id for a Facebook page like action.
Use Case:
I have a site with FB like plugin integrated in few modules, which are referencing to a FB page.
I want to log a particular Id (specific to particular module) when user Likes the page, so that I can analyze later which module generated how many likes.
I can find 'ref' option in FB API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button#faqref
But not sure whether it will fit in my scenarios and how.
When you use the ref parameter on a like button, clicks back to your website which were generated by that Like button, contain two extra parameters in the referrer: fb_ref, containing the same value you gave to ref, and fb_source which shows where on Facebook the story was clicked.
BTW, this answer has been previously answered here: Tracking like button referrals from Facebook using the 'fb_ref' parameter in our code
Here's some relevant documentation from the Like Button and the Ref Param:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/faqs/#ref
I was looking out the solutions but no luck for getting the list the users who likes your Facebook page. I found out the following solutions over internet but all have some limitations. Please suggest??
Facebook provides like table where we can provide object name to get the list of users who likes your Album,Photo etc. But I didn't find to get this work for a Facebook Page. It is working for photo,album etc.
Second options with page_fan table but i notice that only the uid field is index able so you need to know the user id to search it and not the page_id.
Finally i added the Like Box in my applications where I am showing the list of user with their profile picture but here is also limitation with face book like box that i can't see the entire list of the users who likes the Facebook Page. It is showing only 20-30 in the Like Box. If i was trying to change the iFrame div CSS to overflow:auto but their is no success because i think iFrame with other domain url doesn't allow the same.
Can someone help me out how i can get the all Facebook User's profile photos who likes my Facebook page with any 3 options or let me know if any other options.
I have a Facebook feed that takes me to a landing page when I click on it. I want to be able to add Facebook's like plugin onto that landing page in order to like the feed I came from. This would be the equivalent of clicking like from the feed post itself. I don't know what to use for the data-href property in order to connect the like button to the feed.
I know the feed id and access_token and have tried the following:
https://graph.facebook.com/1608072154_362229823788663&access_token=...
http://www.facebook.com/1608072154/posts/362229823788663
So far I've only been able to like link urls and not the actual feed post.
Is what I'm trying to do even possible? and if so, how do I get the url?
Is what I'm trying to do even possible?
Yes it is possible, but not with the like plugin. I have a production app that pulls in a person's feed from multiple social networks including Facebook. I display a gray star for unliked content and a gold star for liked items. When the user clicks the gray star for a facebook item, I send an HTTP Post to the Graph API with /post_id/likes which likes it. If they click the gold star, then I send an HTTP DELETE to the /post_id/likes which removes it. See: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/ and the "likes" create/delete section near the bottom.
I have implemented the like button on a website. People have liked the website, and I have the option to administer that open graph object. However, on the administration page I see the following notice:
Administer Your Page
This is the administration interface for your
webpage at [...]. You can see Insights and
publish to the users that have liked your webpage. Only the
administrators of the webpage can view this interface, other users are
sent to the webpage.
This is a ghost page, because, as the notice says, only the administrator(s) can see it. I don't want the behavior of users being sent to my website. I want them to be able to stay on Facebook and see this page, just like they would see and interact with another business page.
Is there a tool or a request form to do this kind of migration (i.e. from an open graph page to a normal business page)?
I have researched for about two days for this issue, but I have not found any leads.
According to this help article, you can merge two facebook pages into one. But the constraint is that you can merge to a page with higher likes only, and the page with fewer likes will be removed. I am not sure if it works for ghost pages or not.
Shef, let me try to answer:
if you have an app myapp, that is canvas url https://apps.facebook.com/myapp
then you will have an application profile page: http://www.facebook.com/myapp [*]
So if a search your app from google or facebook, then they come to first this page,
and if they click go to app, they reach to your app.
However if you have just implemented like url: myapp.com/myitem=1
then you will have this "ghost" page. You need this ghost page, because you need somewhere
to administrate your likes
So you are asking a real page instead ghost, well this is hard to implement this request by facebook guys. Because there is like link to refer some url. So there must be some pop up asking user: 'Do you want to follow link or go to business page instead'
[*] username is not available anymore for facebook apps. see How to get name of facebook application page?
You can use the ref parameter while specifying your like button. This ref parameter will be set by Facebook, for all url's/links that appear on Facebook, i.e wherever this like action is displayed with the link to the url liked by the user. So you know when a user visits your page through Facebook. Check the following from this link:
ref - a label for tracking referrals; must be less than 50 characters and can contain alphanumeric characters and some punctuation (currently +/=-.:_). The ref attribute causes two parameters to be added to the referrer URL when a user clicks a link from a stream story about a Like action:
fb_ref - the ref parameter
fb_source - the stream type ('home', 'profile', 'search', 'other') in which the click occurred and the story type ('oneline' or 'multiline'), concatenated with an underscore.
Upon calling your url you can redirect the user to the page on Facebook that you want. Business pages on Facebook have a particular url, of course, and you can easily do the redirect.
I don't think that you have an option to migrate an open graph page to a normal business page. You can however create your page, and give it the same name as your website. The draw back here would be when users like your page on Facebook, you won't be able to accumulate the likes already garnered by your website.
EDIT
Take a look at the like box plugin (Facebook doc here ). It can be used to like pages that are on Facebook itself, from external websites. This way you will be able to accumulate your likes. You can also modify the plugin to look like a like button, not fully but almost. But you still end up creating a new page. And the old likes will not be available.
I'm using the Shopp e-commerce plugin for Wordpress. I added the Open Graph Helper plugin to help automatically generate FB like buttons on each of the individual product pages that passes the product info to FB rather than generic site info (since the product page is a template).
When I click like I get an error saying that "The page failed to provide a valid list of administrators. It needs to specify the administrators using either a "fb:app_id" meta tag, or using a "fb:admins" meta tag to specify a comma-delimited list of Facebook users." even though I've added my admin ID. Page content doesn't populate the comment box, but it does post to the user's FB page correctly.
You can view an example here: http://kranedesign.com/shop/emory-in-dark-olive-with-shearling-lined-hood/
I'm not sure what the problem is but when I was creating like button generating code for this site Sunwise Sunglasses I found that the order of the the OG tags mattered, and that the Facebook Debugger page was excellent and found any problems: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
There is a free plugin you can use for Shopp and Facebook like.