We are having a lot of success pushing video onto Facebook and driving video views and engagement. But I am having trouble finding anything about how to retrieve this info either through the Insights tools or via the API.
There is this post from back in May of last year that points to video metrics, but I can't find it live anywhere.
Facebook finally launched this feature a couple weeks ago. The url for this is
https://www.facebook.com/[your-page-name]/insights?section=navVideos
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I have a service that reads Facebook Live comments once every 30 seconds and the vast majority of the time it works great. One user just had an issue where during a Live stream the comments were reading fine but then mid-way through the video Facebook was sending back an empty data set for video comments (even though people were still commenting). For 30 minutes Facebook was not sending comments back. Then all of a sudden Facebook returned back all of the comments in batch sizes of 25 each subsequent call. After the service caught up all on the comments Facebook continued returning comments for the rest of the video's life cycle.
I checked rate limiting and the page and app are both well under the rate limits. Facebook did not report being down for any time from what I could see yesterday. Has anyone else experienced this behavior before? If so, is this a Facebook issue or is there something I can do to prevent this from happening again?
I am using Facebook Live inside of a web app to live stream videos. I am wondering if it is possible to include the live commenting associated with the video on my site in real time. I know I can grab the comments from the graph API, however this is not real time. The comment embed widget is also not real time and would need to be constantly refreshed.
The documentation says :
"You can read live video comments by polling the Live Video
Comments
edge."
What is polling? How do I do this and is it possible from a front end web app.
Basically my question is how do I include the live comments along with Facebook Live video on my own website.
This is now available via SSE streams
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/server-sent-events/endpoints/live-comments
I know I can grab the comments from the graph API, however this is not real time.
This is as real time as it can get. If someone posts a comment and you immediately query the Graph API, you will see their comment.
What is polling?
As there is currently no streaming data endpoint for comments, you must query the comments on the live video repeatedly. That is, every 2 seconds or so, refresh the data.
This is done by making a Graph API GET request for /{video-id}/comments. I also suggest setting "order": "reverse_chronological" in the parameters so that you get the newest comments first.
You can see some sample code for doing this as part of the Live Comments Teleprompter: https://github.com/fbsamples/live-comments-teleprompter/blob/master/js/main.js#L89-L103
After some extensive web searching, it appears others are having my same or a similar problem. But I have been unable to find any sort of solution.
I have 3 different clients for whom I've added Facebook Likebox widgets to their sites. I haven't had any issues for over 2 years. Last week though, without any changes to site, 90% of photos stopped showing in the Likebox Stream on all sites. The only thing that is showing on their Stream is comment, day, & time of post (photo upload).
Went to Facebook Developer site to address the problem (recreate code in case of changes) and even on FB Developer Page where Likebox code is created for copy & paste to site, the preview pane of widget isn't showing pictures either.
The oddest part is that there doesn't seem to be any common element to which photos do show. For example, one site is showing 2 photos out of the 12 most recent photo uploads, all of which were uploaded to timeline from the same pc.
What was once a perfect solution allowing tech-challenged site owners some content control, saving me time, saving them money, and cross promoting their sites with their Facebook pages, has now just turned into a nightmare.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
We launched Facebook Timeline integration some days ago. Further to our users' feedbacks, we have a couple of questions.
How many actions do someone has to publish on Facebook to see them grouped together in a dedicated Scoop.it box instead of Recent activity box?
Is there a setting to showcase that box at the top of the Timeline each time a new post is published (because right now it is stuck in the middle of the Timeline at the same spot where it first appeared)?
Is there any way to manage the aggregation display on Facebook? (not just the template to be used, but the position inside the timeline)
Thanks a lot guys.
I am currently developing a new website / facebook app for an online magic competition. I am hoping most of the functionality can come from Facebook's own services, and would like your feedback on how plausible our goals are.
Essentially there will be two types of users: magicians and voters. Magicians will upload a video of them performing a trick (or select a video they have already uploaded). Voters will vote for their favourite magicians, and be able to post these videos to their wall.
Are these possible:
Video upload to Facebook - I have had a search, but the only method I found uses the depreciated REST API. Is there a newer implementation?
Video download - After a user has uploaded a video are they (or can we) able to download their video from Facebook?
Embedding magicians Facebook videos on the standalone website?
Thank you in advance
You can still upload videos and photos using the graph api. We have done this into galleries for a number of clients.
see here for a picture example (works with other media objects such as videos):
Is it possible to post a status update and adding an image file with facebook graph API?
The problems you may face though are the issues of managing and approving content in the site.
One solution we have found is to combine YouTube API and Facebook to get the best of both worlds. you can now embed a YouTube uploader in your site / app which will post videos into a channel of yours but have an approval app to control what lands. Then add any voting mechanism of your choice to the stream of videos. You can use YouTube likes, Facebook likes or your own. Take a look at this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1zgFlCw8Aw
You can embed a YouTube channel into Facebook easily too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pClpKAnddGI
Also using youtube, you can spread your net farther to reach more of an audience.
Hope this can be of some help. (No, I don't work for YouTube just find using more than one platform better)