using the fan.php API I can extract info about max 100 likers (e.g. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/fan.php?connections=100&id=150495894979290) , if I use connection with higher value I get "Param connections must be a number less than or equal to 100" error
how can I get this information for connection > 100 ?
Refer the following link.
Get Facebook Page Likes all at once in c#
Since facebook prevents this list to be accessed to discourage selling fans data to 3rd party companies. As far as I know you can get a maximum of only 100 persons using this..Sorry
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When trying to fetch Facebook insights API for the following action offsite_conversion.fb_pixel_purchase I always get less number than Facebook show on their ad manager, I tried to inspect their network calls and URL structure and I see they're using the same field offsite_conversion.fb_pixel_purchase to show Results I am not sure why the numbers are mis-matching. I tried to query from the Graph API and from my shell with the same results.
You may check use_account_attribution_setting and use_unified_attribution_setting in here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/reference/ad-campaign-group/insights
Setting use_unified_attribution_setting to true worked for me.
I did some testing and found out that if you use an additional breakdown, FB will return less conversions. There might be a bug in their API when you use breakdowns.
I tried getting offsite_conversion.fb_pixel_purchase with
'breakdowns' => 'hourly_stats_aggregated_by_advertiser_time_zone',
and facebook retuned 5 conversions.
if I remove the breakdown and get the data grouped daily I get 11 conversions which is what Facebook Ads Manager shows
I'm using Facebook Ad Library API but I can't figure out how rate limit works.
On the application dashboard under "Application-Level Rate Limiting" the chart is always showing zero calls and when I make a new API call the header just shows this (the 'call_count' field is missing):
{
'total_time' : 0,
'total_cputime' : 0
}
I've read on a report by Mozilla developers that there is a rate limit (they were blocked a few times), someone can help?
Thanks
I was running into a similar issue and worked out the following solution:
You can see the current usage of your rate limit for the Ad Library API by looking at the "object_count_pct" in the header. API calls are blocked once it reaches a value of 100 (%).
Avoiding the limit is then possible by pausing calls at a certain percentage until the object_count_pct goes down again. You can also build your API calls so that they use the "estimated_time_to_regain_access" value to restart the calls after Facebook unblocks your app.
Unfortunately I could not find any documentation regarding the actual rate limit or at what speed the object_count_pct goes down once calls to the API are halted. The 200 calls per hour as stated in the official docs is definitively not accurate as I have managed to make over 5.000 calls in ca. 8 hours.
So recently there was a update to the Facebook Graph API and now pretty much everything requires a access_token to retrieve any type of data.
Previously you could get the number of page likes by accessing the graph like so:
http://graph.facebook.com/{page-name}
But now if you try it says you need to have a access token because of a recent update to the API. Now the issue i am having is i cant access the likes even with an access token this is the response i am getting:
Request
http://graph.facebook.com/{page-name}/?access_token={access_token}
Response
array(2) {
["name"] "Page Name"
["id"] "Page Id"
}
Now at first i thought the access token wasn't being generated with the correct scopes but i am 99% sure you only need read_stream to pull that type of data.
Second thought is that they have removed the ability to acces likes of any page and you need a page token to receive that type of data or finally i am missing something incredibly small here and its still achievable?
So my question is can you still get the number of likes of any page using the Facebook Graph API and if the answer is yes how do you do it?
any help appreciated
This can help you! Just add ?fields=likes after the page name/id. You can use any access token for fetching data!
graph.facebook.com/{page_name}?fields=likes&access_token={token}
The Graph API v2.4 reduces the number of fields in default responses.
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2015/07/08/graph-api-v2.4/
Fewer default fields for faster performance: To help improve performance on mobile network connections, we've reduced the number of fields that the API returns by default. You should now use the ?fields=field1,field2 syntax to declare all the fields you want the API to return.
If you do ?fields=likes it should show up.
You can do like this:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.4/{page_id}/fields=likes
I'm trying to collect all the posts of my company page with this kind of query
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.2//feed?limit=250&fields=id,type,status_type,comments{id},likes{id},shares
Problem is that I'm not collecting all posts.
I will have a better result with limit=20 and some time with limit=100
Most of the pages (from the pagination mechanism point of view) will not have 100 items.
I know some posts may not be exposed because of privacy settings.
My issue is that a call with limit=20 is not returning once going through pagination the same amount of data as limit=250.
How could it be?
How providers of Facebook Analytics can garanty the quality of data they collect ?
The Facebook graph api only allow the max of 100 items per request, despite you specify more than that.
Afaik the limit parameter is indeed buggy. But 250 would be a very high value, there is a max value for the parameter too - i assume it depends on the API call how high it is, could be fixed too.
Better don´t use limit at all and use paging to get more results: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v2.2#paging
Currently i am using following FQL query :-
https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=select post_id,likes FROM stream WHERE source_id=XXXXXXXX LIMIT 0,10000&access_token=XXXXXXXXXXXXX&format=json
I have two Facebook Accounts / pages & able to download data using above API. Able to retrieve posts & post likes count.
But, from last three days, for one Facebook account above FQL query is not working. it is returning message :- "error": "Request failed" . For other account it is working fine.
For each facebook Account / pages i have generated separate Access Tokens.
But, if i update limit from : -
Limit 0,50
Limit 50,100
then it is working & returning posts from page but not returning all post which i have previously getting from Limit 0,10000
Please help me, if any one have idea about this issue ?
Thanks
Facebook will cancel queries which take too long or too many resources to execute. In general, I would never use LIMITs which are that high. There's a high probability that they will fail, and you can't really incfuence the query execution "load" other than setting the LIMIT to a reasonable number (which means implementing a paging mechanism).