I heard there is a way to get stats for URLs from Facebook using FQL. Is there a way to do this using the Open Graph?
Yes.
You can retrieve link stats from Graph API endpoint.
For example, accessing https://graph.facebook.com/?id=http://example.com will get you a response like this:
{
"id": "http://example.com",
"shares": 47068
}
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Is anyone having trouble getting Facebook metric data from the app_insights edge? Hoping to get a sanity check about the Facebook graph API. In the past we could use story_clicks, story_publishes and story_impressions to get data about our facebook app. For example we would use the request of
https://graph.facebook.com/v5.0/APP_ID/app_insights/story_publishes
to return data about our facebook application. We know the application is making posts, and the request doesn't return an error, but all we get are data points that look like this:
{
"data": [
{
"time": "2019-12-02T08:00:00+0000",
"value": "0"
}
]
}
The app_insights endpoint is still listed in the 5.0 graph api documentation, and nothing related to this seems to be listed in the changelog
I am trying to access the live views count of a live video that is live through a Facebook Page. I am using the ID that I am obtaining from the API request {page-id}/videos/uploaded When I am using that video id and making a GET request of {video-id}?fields='live_views its showing error code of 100 with the message as:
(#100) Tried accessing nonexisting field (live_views) on node type (Video)
I have the following permissions:
'manage_pages', 'publish_pages', 'business_management', 'read_insights', 'user_videos'
I am making the GET request using user_access_token.
I am using Graph API Version 2.8.
Please let me know if I am using the wrong ID. IF yes, then how can i get the live_video_id of a live video posted in page?
To get the live views count of a video a fan page, you need:
An app created at facebook developer
A user access token (for testing, e.g. by calling https://developers.facebook.com/tools/accesstoken/)
The fan page id
With this you can call graph API in the following format:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.8/<fan_page_id>/live_videos?access_token=<access_token>?fields=live_views
Of course, you may add more elements in fields parameter if you need more information. Here Facebook's Graph API explorer helps: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer
When you add status to fields parameter, "LIVE" means, it's currently live, "VOD" means it has already finished.
If you try to implement a WebHook for it, let me now if it works. Thanks.
To get live views you need to call the api with the live video id, which you get from calling, page id can initially be either the page-id or name
"https://graph.facebook.com/v10.0/${page_id}/live_videos?access_token=${access_token}
Sample response:
{
"title": "hello world 2",
"status": "LIVE",
"embed_html": "...,
"id": "123123" // this is the live video id
},
After you have retrieved the live video id you can call this endpoint to get the live_views edge
https://graph.facebook.com/v10.0/${live_id}fields=live_views&access_token=${access_token}
sample response:
{
"live_views": 1,
"id": "123123"
}
Docs for endpoint 1: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/live-video/
Docs for endpoint 2: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/live-video/reactions#Reading
However I understand the confusion since live_views is not listed under the second endpoint as a reaction nor even is it a reaction, so either it a mistake in facebook docs or a mistake in the graph API, either the solution provided works.
Yes you do need to go through an app review to get the permission for tracking streams
I'm trying to get user's own posts on with images on his feed.
GET https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/photos/uploaded
will get me the uploaded images but without the status they were posted on.
on the other hand,
GET https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/feed?fields=message
will work just fine , but
GET https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/feed?fields=message,attachments
is returning me this
{
"error": {
"type": "http",
"message": "unknown error",
"status": 500
}
}
(FYI as for v2.1 FQL is deprecated)
help?
To my knowledge, you have to do USER_ID/feed and then filter out the posts that aren't images. In those kinds of objects, there is no attachment field. There isn't any way of filtering content in Graph API like you could do in FQL. You would have to get the post type which I'm pretty sure is the field type.
I have a facebook account I KNOW has articles posted to the open graph as read actions under the news.reads global namespace (I can see them under the News aggregation in my timeline) but when I try to get a list of them using this api address:
https://graph.facebook.com/me/news.reads?access_token=[my access token]
it returns:
{
"data": [
],
"paging": {
"next": "https://graph.facebook.com/me/news.reads?access_token=[my access token]&offset=25&limit=25"
}
}
as though there were no articles posted at all. I checked my permissions and cant find anything that might be causing this issue. Anyone know how I should be accessing this data correctly? Thanks!
You need the user_actions.news Permission in order to access the user's list of news reads, otherwise the array comes back empty
I have a user, user_2. There is a post on their wall, made by user_1.
The URL is
https://www.facebook.com/user_1/posts/10150166228506188
I try to get the content using the Graph API, with this request:
https://graph.facebook.com/10150166228506188?access_token=ACCESSTOKENUSER_2
I get this error:
{
"error": {
"type": "GraphMethodException",
"message": "Unsupported get request."
}
}
The access_token I am using is good, because requests to get things like statuses & images work fine:
https://graph.facebook.com/10150233707783933?access_token=ACCESSTOKENUSER_2
Result:
{
"id": "10150233707783933",
"from": {
"name": "American Steel",
"category": "Professional sports team",
"id": "203692078932"
},
"tags": {
"data": [
etc
The error seems to happen whenever I try to get items that have this kind of URL:
https://www.facebook.com/username/posts/item_id
The permissions my app has include these:
Why is this error occurring?
I think that, in order to access the posts directly through the graph api, you have to prepend the user id to the post id you see in the facebook url.
So in your example the facebook post url is :
https://www.facebook.com/user_1/posts/10150166228506188
And you try to get through the graph api :
https://graph.facebook.com/10150166228506188?access_token=ACCESSTOKENUSER_2
BUT you should be doing :
https://graph.facebook.com/{id of user_1}_10150166228506188?access_token=ACCESSTOKENUSER_2
I noticed that all posts ids are formed like this by visiting :
https://graph.facebook.com/me/posts?access_token=...
Does this solve your problem ?
You're accessing the end-point of the post incorrectly. Every object on Facebook has a unique ID. Right now, it just so happens that they form it by appending different IDs together (your post is an example, <user_id>_<post_id>, and for a comment on that post it'd be <user_id>_<post_id>_<comment_id>). Facebook hasn't made public acknowledgment of this (not that they really have to, it's obvious) which makes me leary to rely on that paradigm for accessing data within the graph. This is because Facebook could change it at any point, and the fact that they haven't said "yeah append these 2 ids together and you can get something meaningful from this part of the graph" means they won't have to notify anyone about the change, you could just wake up one day and your app be completely broken and you'd have to find a work around quickly and while suffering down time.
The graph api works by accessing objects on Facebook by making a request to the API for that unique ID. So, you don't need to access (and can't access) your posts by going to graph.facebook.com/<user_id>/posts/<post_id>. Instead, you go to graph.facebook.com/<post_id>. You get the post_id from the /<user_id>/home or /<user_id>/feed end-point on the graph. There is no need to modify a post_id in order to fetch information about it from the graph.
Hope that helps