Here's the problem I'm having -- I want to pull the latest 20 wall posts from a company's Facebook page using Graph API, but only those posts that were authored by that company. For instance, if I were pulling from the Grey Poupon Facebook page, I don't want any of the wall posts that their fans put up, just the ones that Grey Poupon put up.
From my vantage point, there's no way to do this, other than by pulling way too many, then cycling through each result and checking the "from" data to make sure it matches the page name till that limit hits 20. But that's awfully inefficient and still doesn't guarantee a result set of 20. Am I missing something, or is that my only option?
What exactly are you requesting from the API – /pageid/feed, or /pageid/posts …?
The latter should only contain the page’s own posts.
Also, you could use the FQL stream table to filter by actor_id.
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How can I query facebook's graph API to retrieve all user's likes (not only pages but also photos and others)?
For instance, how could I get all the pictures a user has liked? Using facebook's search bar you can find them easily by clicking on "photos has liked".
I wrote a script that scrapes the page content and does that but it's not very efficient.
I have recently come accross a similar problem, maybe this helps you solve it.
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/{page_id}/feed?fields=likes.limit(1).summary(true)&since={start_date}&until={end_date}&access_token={access_token}
This will give you a list of all posts that received likes during the specified time period. If you manage to write a code summing up the following JSON path you got your sum for "all user's likes":
data[0].likes.summary.total_count
Not entirely sure is this is exactly what you were searching for, hope it helps you though - and if not you, someone else.
As for likes you can also use the same way to extract Shares and Comments:
Shares
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/{page_id}/feed?fields=shares&since={start_date}&until={end_date}&access_token=
Comments
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/{page_id}/feed?fields=comments.limit(1).summary(true)&since={start_date}&until={end_date}&access_token=
Best regards
There isn't to my knowledge any way to get this from the API without grabbing every type of response from the API and then sorting through for likes. Facebook search bar uses an internal API different from the Graph API.
i am using this endpoint
https://api.facebook.com/method/links.getStats?urls=
to collect the number of likes of specific urls. I want to display this information on a front end but do not want to make unnecessary API calls (there are over 25,000 posts). I would like to retrieve this information and store it so it can be retrieved from our database. On some pages, there will be over 10 of these accessible view a hover effect from a mouse. I would prefer to not have to load the page up with javascript targeted elements everywhere. It would be much easier to have the information stored and updated periodically. We will not be going over the impression limit or even coming close, but I would like to just make sure I'm not doing anything that will get me in trouble.
I would like permission to utilize this data to help increase pathways between our site and Facebook to allow people to share the page. I'm pretty sure we're doing everything correct but would just like to make sure and not step on anyone's toes.
I read through the checklist here
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/submission-process/
however I don't know if what I'm doing would be considered an app....? Any advice would be appreciated.
Have a look at my answer here: How do I get the likes number from facebook for a given url?
You can also use FQL queries with IN lists to query multiple URLs at once. Please consider that a FQL statement can have a maximum length of 2048 characters.
select url, like_count from link_stat where url in ('URL1', 'URL2', ...)
The "cheklist" you linked is completely unneccessary, because you don't need to submit anything related to OpenGraph objects or actions. You can even use the functionality without using an Access Token, because the link_stat table is public (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/link_stat/)
I have an idea to create a "top posts" feature to my website, which creates the "top" list depending on how many likes and shares that a post have on facebook.
Users may see how many likes an post has received so far since they only have to ask for a single, defined url. However, the website itself has to be able to query all the links that are tied to itself (which have a predefined url template like website.com/[post-id]) to create the "top" list. Is it possible to do something similar (or achieve the same result in a different way)?
Any ideas on a real workflow about something like this will be appreciated!
this seems like a little but interesting project. I don't know if there is a feature that could get that directly in the way you want, but i did something similar.
First you have the Graph API, with that you can get the Posts of a user using feed, with that every post is telling you how many likes does it have which you can get with POST_ID/likes.
Then you'll have to check for changes in the post periodically comparing its created_time and updated_time.
This could seem very hard, because you have a lot of posts and you have to check them all for updates, but you can use batch_requests so you can check them all at once.
I have made a bookmarklet which shows top posts in the Facebook News Feed as well as Google+, Twitter and Instagram Profiles.
Just add a new bookmark in your bookmarks bar and replace its URL with the following code and save it, then go to the social network website and run it:
javascript:(function(){var s=document.createElement('script');s.src='https://niutech.github.io/topnewsfeed/topnewsfeed.min.js';document.body.appendChild(s);})()
The source code is available on GitHub.
Given a Facebook user id and a Facebook page id, is there any way to get find all interaction that user has done on the page (posting comments, liking posts etc) without first downloading the entire feed?
I have access key for the page and if necessary I can get one for the user.
For example on the page 315390295169855 (Ninja Saga page) user ID 100002190613755 has written a comment on the post 315390295169855_401357983239752. I would like to search that page so that such interactions could be found.
Things I have tried
I tried
https://graph.facebook.com/315390295169855/feed?q=100002190613755&access_token=FOO
But that doesn't seem to do the trick.
I have also considered first downloading the entire feed and then searching through it. However it turns out to be impractical, as for example the Ninja Saga page has tens of thousands of interactions and would likely cause the user to start playing farmville instead of waiting for the megabytes-long pre-search download to complete.
You have the answer there - pull the list of comments from the Posts you retrieve on the /feed connection of the page - i think the default return from a call to /feed includes a small number of the recent comments on each Post too, and you can retrieve the rest with a call to /POST_ID/comments
I want to build my own list of the most 'liked' pages on Facebook. FB itself appears to do a version of this, at least for each letter of the alphabet. Each directory page, such as http://www.facebook.com/directory/pages/A lists the top 20 most liked pages starting with that letter.
If I knew the IDs of every FB page then I could easily grab its like count using the graph API, but I don't know of a way to get that initial list. I'm sure it's huge, and honestly, I really would rather just have the top 20% or so of all pages. But if I had them all I could do the sorting myself.
I've searched the FB dev forums and looked through their docs but can't find a way. Queries using FQL don't appear to take wildcards either.
In FQL, you can search the page table by name. This doesn't allow wildcard searches though. Using the graph api, you can perform page searches using this url:
https://graph.facebook.com/search?type=page&q=test (You would want to future proof this by adding an access_token parameter to the end). A third option would by to use search engines to search for Facebook pages. Finally, you could scrape and parse the Facebook page browser by using this url.