As detailed in the my post on IT Security Stack Exchange, I am the administrator for a page with a many recent unknown (an undesired) likes.
It was suggested to me to learn the Facebook API and write an algorithm to remove likes automatically, based on thresholds (ex.: remove a like if the user has a suspicious amount recent likes).
I'm aware of the many other posts discussing issues with retrieving the like count for a Facebook page, but was unable to find any posts discussing removing likes as the page admin.
Is this possible to achieve? If so, how would this be done?
Try looking into using the block method.
PAGE_ID/blocked?uid=USER_ID_YOU_WANT_TO_BLOCK
This should do the same as removing the like. I am not sure whether unblocking the user resets the like or not (works on Twitter) so you can look into that as well with a HTTP DELETE on the same call.
As far as I know there is no way to explicitly remove a like from a page.
For more information see http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#blocked
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I follow a facebook page which has some interesting posts and they post regularly. I want to write a python script that gives me a notification whenever the page posts something. Is there a way I can accomplish this in Python?
I have searched a bit, seems like graph API is the way to go. However, all the tutorials I have seen online give a way to scrape some data or get post information. I do not seem to figure out a way to detect when a new post is made.
How should I accomplish this task?
Notifications for changes or new posts can only be made with Webhooks - which are only available if you manage the Page. Scraping is not allowed on Facebook, so there is no way to get notifications for Pages you do not manage.
You could only check with the API on a regular basis, but you would need Public Page Content Access for that, and you may have a problem with API limits if there are many Page Posts or Pages you want to check.
For a given Facebook user, is there a possibility to read all posts that he's made to any pages? On FB web, these can be found in the activity log, but so far I couldn't find a method to get them via API.
Both /user/posts and /user/feeds only contain status and profile updates, not posts to pages. I know I can read /page/feed and use paging to find this user's posts for any page the user likes, but how about those he doesn't?
No, outside of FQL, there is nothing in the API that accomplishes this. I'd imagine this to be a pretty data intensive call with minimal use cases however, so I don't think this will be introduced anytime soon.
How can i show the wall (feed) of my page to app on facebook? As i see in the page
www.facebook.com/kesha?sk=app_178091127385 and
www.facebook.com/pages/Khanduna-Yengu-Nangsu-Amuktang/187317137978077
I want show the wall(feed) of my page to my app of facebook. Please Help me.
I also try and see graph api as below
graph.facebook.com//feed
But Fail,
Please Help any one.
As I understand your question, you want to take the wall of your page and show the content of that on another page controlled by an app you have made, so that is the question I will answer.
There are a couple of things you need to do.
Facebook now requires you to have an access_token to get that information. You can get this in two different ways. Either you get your users permission to grab an access_token for them, or you create an access_token for one of the admin users with offline_access and manage_pages permissions.
There are problems with both cases:
1: Getting an access_token per user requires people to give permissions to your app which is quite annoying if they just gain access to the contents of the feed.
2: Having one access_token is also a problem seeing as Facebook puts a limit on how many requests you can make per access_token in a given time.
You need to balance these things out if you want the feed to be shown. Which case would you most likely use? If you don't have many users the second case might be the best, but if you go over the request limit no content will be shown and that could confuse your users.
Anyways.. Once you are past the access_token problem, you can access the information by getting the content from the page:
https://graph.facebook.com/YOUR_PAGE_ID/feed?access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN.
You then get a nice json output you can use. If you are using the Javascript API you can simply use the information here:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.api/
If you are ever unsure how to get the information you need there is a nice tool for that developed by Facebook called Graph API Explorer which you can find here:
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
ive been checking the facebook API for a feature where I can request all facebook likes from a certain domain. Lets say my site is www.test.com and i have many pages which all have a like button for each page. I would like to query facebook to see which pages of the domain test.com have been liked recently.
I know about this widget http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/activity/ but it doesnt show the likes individually, and also it is very limited.
Is there some API i can query?
This question seems like it's sort of similar to what you're asking for. As I pointed out in my answer to that question, it's probably not likely you'll be able to get likes per piece of content without manually keeping track and adding them up yourself (that is, knowing about each object and tracking it).
When my Facebook app posts to the users stream those posts do not get links for Like and Comment. Other Facebook publishing apps, like Instagram, get these links.
I can't find it in my Facebook application's settings. Anyone knows how to do it?
(I think this is the same question as this one: Facebook : Like and Comment Functionality against Wall Post but I'm not sure.)
See Traroth's comment to get a more to the point description of what it is I'm asking about.
It seems Nathat Totten is right about how these links are defaults and that they are controlled by Facebook. There are three things that confuses this issue.
One is that Facebook Test Users behave a bit more special than you might think. Even when they are friends, they are not fully so. Making these default links turn up only for the user that posts them (for Test Users, mind you, I'm hoping it'll work all right for real users).
Another is the documentation for actions in the Facebook Graph API documentation for publishing Post objects:
A list of available actions on the post (including commenting, liking, and an optional app-specified action). read_stream. A list of JSON objects containing the 'name' and 'link'.
Which made me start to try find out how to include the commenting and liking links myself. I can't find this info anywhere, so maybe that changed without the above quoted documentation reflecting the change.
Anyway, if, indeed this is a Test User issue, then I don't need to do anything special to fix this. I'll try to remember to come back here when my (iPhone) app is ready for the real Facebook world and I get to see if it works in that environment or not.