Sharing Spotify link to Facebook and retrieving the link from graph api? - facebook

Question

I have posted a link to a spotify track on my facebook account - something like this:
http://open.spotify.com/track/0aXxt38KBHHSmwNsHtIonU
Facebook appears to pick up the link (I get the track image and other data appearing in my feed)
But when I make a request to it via /me/feed in the graph api, there's no link or data relating to the track itself. All I get back is object that looks like this:
..{
"id": "{{some_id}}",
"from": {
"id": "{{my_id}}",
"name": "Si Davies"
},
"icon": "https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/y0/r/nAApRnfWfNW.gif",
"actions": [
{
"name": "Comment",
"link": "{{link to the post}}"
},
{
"name": "Like",
"link": "{{link to the post}}"
}
],
"privacy": {
"description": "Public",
"value": "EVERYONE",
"friends": "",
"networks": "",
"allow": "",
"deny": ""
},
"type": "link",
"status_type": "shared_story",
"created_time": "2014-06-17T02:17:06+0000",
"updated_time": "2014-06-17T02:17:06+0000"
}...
Which isn't much use to me - I've tried specifying a link field with something like me/feed?fields=link and also mucked around granting various permissions with little or no effect.. how can I see what spotify track was added to my feed from the graph api?

Answer 1

Spotify seems to use the global music.listens Facebook OpenGraph action. Have a look at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/music/
You should be able to retrieve your data by issuing
GET /me/music.listens
according to the docs at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph/action-type/music.listens#read Remember to grant the user_actions.music permission to be able to read the data (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/v2.0#reference-opengraph)