Is there a way to to access the date of a post, link or photo that has been backdated on a Page timeline?
The Graph API provides the created time and updated time, but does not reveal where it falls on the timeline.
For instance, I could post a link on 11/16/12 and set it to 10/31/12 on the timeline, and all I can access via the Graph API is the 11/16/12 date.
Is there a similar field to "start_time", provided with milestones? In this case, the created time can differ from the start time.
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I am trying to collect data about a post on facebook from its graph api. I am able to get all the other information (like comments, when the comment was created, who created it, etc etc) but i am not able to find the timestamp on the reactions. That is i want find out at what time (and date) did the user add the reaction. Does facebook have this information? If yes, then how do i get that information using graph api?
Does facebook have this information?
Most likely they do.
If yes, then how do i get that information using graph api?
You don’t, because they do not provide that information via API.
For a page you manage you could set up a webhook for the feed endpoint; that will get you updates for everything that happens on the feed - new posts, new comments, new reactions ... You’d have to filter out the reactions on your end, and then you could record them in your database with a timestamp that should be close enough. (That will only work for new reactions though, and not already existing ones.)
Yes , you can get details of comment by:
https://graph.facebook.com/{page-id}/{post-id}/reactions?access_token={page_token}
When I post something on Facebook, it is automatically seen in my friends timeline. But after some time post goes down in the timeline. So I want to know if it is possible to do that for example twice a week this post automatically
raise up to the top in the friends time line?
Can it be done using Facebook API or with the help of personal settings?
It is not possible to push a post's place in the News Feed via the API or any setting.
My question is,
if I am the user using an authorized web application, can I post something to my friends' timeline at once, and without any interactions with me?
I've read this topic and other relative posts on stackoverflow, and I understand that facebook had made some changes.
But when I read Feed Dialog document, I find out that it said:
Your application can also publish directly to a profile's timeline without interaction on the part of someone using your app. To accomplish this, use the corresponding Graph API call
while "Graph API call" is an unavailable link. And I can't figure out what the corresponding graph api call is.
You cannot Post to User's Friends timelines through the Graph API, as simple as that. You can only Post to the authorized User's wall through the Graph API.
The only way to achieve the similar functionality, as the blog post that you have checked suggests is,
If you want to allow people to post to their friend’s timeline from your app, you can invoke the feed dialog. Stories that include friends via user mentions tagging or action tagging will show up on the friend’s timeline (assuming the friend approves the tag).
I'm having a hard time getting access to most recent posts and comments for a given user using the OpenGraph API.
I have the read_stream permission, and get realtime notifications for feed field on the user object. The notification comes in, but fetching the /<user id>/feed stream doesn't include the new action.
When playing around with the Graph API Explorer, the data I see via OpenGraph and data I see by going directly to the page is different. Viewing my friend's profile, I see his latest update, yet it doesn't come back via /friend_id/feed. A comment I left a week ago shows in my /feed, but one from a few hours ago (which sent a realtime notification!) isn't showing up.
It's almost like some posts are filtered for the API. Is this how it's supposed to work?
My actual goal is to get all the comments made by my application's user.
the API to fetch newsfeed is: https://graph.facebook.com/me/home?access_token=&limit=1000&untill=
which returns paginated feed output with 'next' url to fetch previous feeds.
However it stops returning newsfeed beyond a certain time. So newsfeed of few days is only available for parsing.
Is there a way out to get more historical newsfeed using facebook apis???
If you look at the graph API documentation page, /me/home is limited to only 1-2 weeks of history, and it has fallen into the "we don't care about this" category:
/me/home retrieves an outdated view of the News Feed. This is currently a known issue and we don't have any near term plans to bring them back up into parity.
Use /me/feed instead.
You can use the since and until parameters to get historical data from a user's feed. This will get you the posts that appeared between August 15-20, 2012.
/me/feed?since=2012-08-15&until=2012-08-20
The data returned by /me/feed/ is also limited. The limits aren't explicitly stated, but I never expect to be able to access more than 30 days worth of posts from one API call.