I am trying to create a Facebook wall using the objects from the users feed. However, what I cannot seem to do is get the picture of the friends who have posted on my wall.
I am currently using an if statement to check the feed object for the from property below. I can get the id from the from property, but that only allows me to get it if I do another api call within the loop to construct the wall. However, since it is async i cannot return the values, and I also can't concatenate it with the src attribute. Any suggestions on how to get around this problem?
{
"data": [
{
"id": "64582869534783990_343788612678878",
"from": {
"id": "32458397413435340",
"name": "User Name"
},
"message": "this is my message",
"actions": [
{
"name": "Comment",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/144375679690/posts/245786252634978"
},
{
"name": "Like",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/245786252634978/posts/245786252634978"
}
],
"privacy": {
"description": "Your friends",
"value": "ALL_FRIENDS",
"friends": "",
"networks": "",
"allow": "",
"deny": ""
},
"type": "status",
"status_type": "mobile_status_update",
"application": {
"name": "App Name",
"id": "245786252634978"
},
"created_time": "2014-11-08T22:26:06+0000",
"updated_time": "2014-11-08T22:26:06+0000"
}
]
}
Just use field expansion
me/feed?fields=from{id,name,picture}
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I posted something on a page wall in Facebook (using Graph-API). Checking the data via Graph-Explorer results with posts from me. An example:
{
"id": "640047619xxxxx_6405845194xxxxx",
"from": {
"id": "640047619xxxxx6"
},
"message": "[time]test_total_neu",
"privacy": {
"value": "EVERYONE",
"description": "Public",
"friends": "",
"allow": "",
"deny": ""
},
"type": "status",
"status_type": "mobile_status_update",
"application": {
"name": "Graph API Explorer",
"id": "145634995xxxxx"
},
"created_time": "2015-04-10T10:45:22+0000",
"updated_time": "2015-04-10T10:45:22+0000",
"is_hidden": false,
"subscribed": true
},
Facebook won't show these entries on the wall. I googled almost the entire morning, but can't find a solution for that. Any ideas?
Thanks so far!
I have a page in facebook as well as an app for it.
I have generated a never expire token for the page , and tried to post to the page using the graph api POST /me/feed
However, the messages i posted only appears if i query /me/feed in the graph api but not on the page wall. Why is this happening?
result for /me/feed
{
"id": "**********",
"from": {
"category": "Education",
"name": "**************",
"id": "**************"
},
"message": "ok",
"actions": [
{
"name": "Comment",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/**********"
},
{
"name": "Like",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/************"
}
],
"privacy": {
"description": "Public",
"value": "EVERYONE",
"friends": "",
"networks": "",
"allow": "",
"deny": ""
},
"type": "status",
"status_type": "mobile_status_update",
"application": {
"name": **********",
"id": "************"
},
"created_time": "2015-02-01T05:26:29+0000",
"updated_time": "2015-02-01T05:26:29+0000"
},
{
"id": "825588500832993_846332195425290",
"from": {
"category": "Education",
"name": "************",
"id": "825588500832993"
},
"message": "asd",
"actions": [
{
"name": "Comment",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/*************"
},
{
"name": "Like",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/**************"
}
],
"privacy": {
"description": "Public",
"value": "EVERYONE",
"friends": "",
"networks": "",
"allow": "",
"deny": ""
},
"type": "status",
"status_type": "mobile_status_update",
"application": {
"name": "**********",
"id": "**************"
},
"created_time": "2015-02-01T05:22:02+0000",
"updated_time": "2015-02-01T05:22:02+0000"
},
For anyone facing the same problem, go to developers.facebook.com-> your app -> settings-> fill up email , then go to status & review -> switch the off button to on to make it live
I queried a page with due permissions for its feed. There was a post with three photos. The response json was:
{
"id": "some_id",
"from": {
"category": "Tv show",
"name": "some_name",
"id": "some_id"
},
"message": "New post with 3 photos",
"picture": "some_link",
"link": "some_link",
"icon": "some_link",
"actions": [
{
"name": "Comment",
"link": "some_link"
},
{
"name": "Like",
"link": "some_link"
}
],
"privacy": {
"description": "Public",
"value": "EVERYONE",
"friends": "",
"networks": "",
"allow": "",
"deny": ""
},
"type": "photo",
"status_type": "mobile_status_update",
"object_id": "some_id",
"created_time": "2014-02-05T07:06:22+0000",
"updated_time": "2014-02-05T07:06:35+0000",
"likes": {
"data": [
{
"id": "some_id",
"name": "some_name"
}
],
"paging": {
"cursors": {
"after": "MTgyNDY2NjQ1MjM4MTc5",
"before": "MTgyNDY2NjQ1MjM4MTc5"
}
}
},
"comments": {
"data": [
{
"id": "some_id",
"from": {
"category": "Tv show",
"name": "some_name",
"id": "some_id"
},
"message": "With a comment and a like on it",
"can_remove": true,
"created_time": "2014-02-05T07:06:35+0000",
"like_count": 0,
"user_likes": false
}
],
"paging": {
"cursors": {
"after": "MQ==",
"before": "MQ=="
}
}
}
},
Firstly, I only got one object_id, whereas the post contained 3 photos. The object_id was of a single photo. I also queried through fql for object_id for that photo in photo table and the object_ids were not matching. Why is it so? What does object_id mean in both cases?
The Object ID for Posts will be different to the Object ID of the photos used in the post, as they are effectively different representations of the same thing. The id will be the ID of the page post, and the object_id will be the Album ID of the uploaded photos.
Try calling /{object_id}/photos to get the list of photos in the post.
A good way to test what each object_id represents is to go to http://www.facebook.com/{object_id} to see where it goes. It will either go to a page, post, album / media set, photo or an error page.
{
"id": "11882030_4952296803730",
"from": {
"name": "xxx",
"id": "11882030"
},
"message": "test",
"picture": "https://fbcdn-photos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/408410_4952294483672_298434229_s.jpg",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4952294483672&set=pcb.4952296803730&type=1&relevant_count=2",
"icon": "https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yx/r/og8V99JVf8G.gif",
"actions": [
{
"name": "Comment",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/11882030/posts/4952296803730"
},
{
"name": "Like",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/11882030/posts/4952296803730"
}
],
"privacy": {
"description": "Friends",
"value": "ALL_FRIENDS",
"friends": "",
"networks": "",
"allow": "",
"deny": ""
},
"place": {
"id": "471607792876974",
"name": "TTT",
"location": {
"street": "",
"zip": "",
"latitude": x,
"longitude": x
}
},
"type": "photo",
"status_type": "mobile_status_update",
"object_id": "4952294483672",
"application": {
"name": "Facebook for iPhone",
"namespace": "fbiphone",
"id": "6628568379"
},
"created_time": "2013-01-17T01:29:59+0000",
"updated_time": "2013-01-17T01:29:59+0000",
"comments": {
"count": 0
}
}
As above, I posted a status with two photos. I can get the first photo's thumb URL in picture and the relevant link & count information in link.
But how can I get each photo's specific URL?
FQL often provides more information than Graph API. You have to use the attachment parameter of the stream FQL table to get all the attached photos.
SELECT attachment FROM stream
WHERE source_id = me()
AND post_id="11882030_4952296803730"
Result:
{
"data": [
{
"attachment": {
"media": [
{
"href": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=471082296...",
"alt": "",
"type": "photo",
"src": "https://fbcdn-photos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/5826...",
"photo": {
"aid": "4391039135",
"pid": "439104482145",
"fbid": 471507,
"owner": 102832,
"index": 1,
"width": 485,
"height": 172,
"images": [
{
"src": "https://fbcdn-photos-a.akamaihd.net/hph...",
"width": 130,
"height": 46
}
]
}
}
],
"name": "",
"caption": "",
"description": "",
"properties": [
],
"icon": "https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.phpjk.gif",
"fb_object_type": "album",
"fb_object_id": "4391044992857139135"
},
{
... //Photo 2
}
}
]
}
Based on Stéphane Bruckerts answer; you're after attachments. So I'd recommend simply requesting the attachments field in your graph request.
Although this question is a few years old, it still comes up when searching for this topic.
Facebook (Meta) Graph API has changed. Current Facebook (Meta) Graph API is version 13.0.
The best endpoint I found was to use the "/feed" URI slug, with "fields=attachments". Simply cURL / GET:
https://graph.facebook.com/v13.0/$PAGEID/feed?access_token=$AUTHTOKEN&fields=attachments,full_picture,id,message,story
Reference: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v13.0/page/feed
I want to get stats (likes, comments, shares) of a Facebook post. How can I do it?
Url: https://graph.facebook.com/<userid>_<postid> - there is a plenty of information about the wall post.
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer - you can use this tool for testing.
Sample data:
{
"id": "<userid>_<postid>",
"from": {
"name": "User Name",
"id": "<userid>"
},
"message": "playing with graph api",
"actions": [
{
"name": "Comment",
"link": "http://www.facebook.com/<userid>/posts/<postid>"
},
{
"name": "Like",
"link": "http://www.facebook.com/<userid>/posts/<postid>"
}
],
"privacy": {
"description": "Public",
"value": "EVERYONE"
},
"type": "status",
"created_time": "2012-03-14T11:33:14+0000",
"updated_time": "2012-03-14T11:33:14+0000",
"comments": {
"count": 0
},
"is_published": true
}
You should just use https://graph.facebook.com/<postid> if it is a status.
You can get the postid by clicking on the date/time in your feed.
If the type is a comment then you can use
https://graph.facebook.com/<postid>_<commentid>