I want to display a Top 10 page in my Facebook App. Basically it's an App where you can vote for DJ Mixes. I select the top 10 urls form the link_stat table over fql and there is the problem: the values of the total_count column in the link_stat table are not equal to the values which are displayed besides the like button.
Check for example:
Like Button: http://www.beatpatrol.at/mix/1020
FQL Request: http://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=SELECT%20share_count,%20like_count,%20comment_count,%20total_count%20FROM%20link_stat%20WHERE%20url%20=%20%22www.beatpatrol.at/mix/1020%22
At the time i wrote this, the like button shows 779likes and the total_count is 752.
Is there a way to get exactly the value from the like button, so that I can order on this value?
Note that:
What makes up the number shown on my Like button?
The number shown is the sum of:
The number of likes of this URL
The number of shares of this URL (this includes copy/pasting a link back to Facebook)
The number of likes and comments on stories on Facebook about this URL
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
To answer your question, neither the formula of likes nor the Like Button look like being configurable. In my opinion, there is definitely no way to get the exact value from the like button.
A user can turn off all platform apps and hide himself from all applications. It looks like 5 of your friends chose to turn that off.
The setting is under:
Privacy Settings > Apps and Websites > Apps you use > "Turn off all apps"
May be this can be the reason why the exact no of likes are not coming.
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(This is perhaps a simplified version of a previous, unresolved post: How do I get my OpenGraph objects to be "liked" properly?), but, anyway:
I set up a page on my site with OG metatags to identity the page as type video.movie. The page lints properly.
A TEST USER clicks on the like button.
The button behaves properly: it dims, shows "like" with a checkbox, and increments the like counter (in this case from 0 to 1).
The user's FB profile page shows a "Joe likes this link" entry.
But:
None of the user's friends get an entry for this like in their feeds.
If I refresh the page containing the like button, the button goes back to its original state: "like" with a small Facebook logo, and with a like count of 0.
Running https://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=SELECT share_count, like_count, comment_count, total_count FROM link_stat WHERE url="http://the-page" returns zero for everything.
Running the page through the linter shows no likes in the Graph API representation (during any of these steps).
So this is definitely not working the way it seems like it should. Any advice? Is any of this due to my doing this with test users? Is there any reason that test users' likes should not persist across time? Or, will all this magically start to work when the site goes live with real people?
I did add fb's like button on my site , after around 70 likes I got fb page for my link in ready made state.
But likes on page & my link differ that to by whole lot margin.
Can anyone explain me how to match both's like count or atleast sync them.
I'm assuming a lot here because your question isn't completely clear, but it sounds like you're saying the count on the Like button, and the count of likes on the Admin page for that URL are not matching?
That's expected. The like button count for a URL includes things not included on the virtual 'admin' page for that URL:
See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ :
What makes up the number shown on my Like button?
The number shown is the sum of:
The number of likes of this URL
The number of shares of this URL (this includes copy/pasting a link back to Facebook)
The number of likes and comments on stories on Facebook about this URL
The number of inbox messages containing this URL as an attachment.
I want to integrate the number of likes that I have in my website with the number of likes that I have in my facebook application, so for example if user clicks on my site like button and another user click on my facebook page like, the total likes that I will see on both the applications(site and facebook) will be 2.
My question is is this possible at all or thous are 2 separate objects and it is not possible to sum there likes
Thanks
You can find the like count of your website by running the following FQL query:
SELECT like_count FROM link_stat WHERE url="yourwebsiteurl"
Then, you can get the like count of your app in one of two ways. If the like button for your app points to its apps.facebook.com address, use the same query as above, with its app URL instead of your website URL.
If the likes for your app are from a Page associated with the app then you should make a Graph API call to:
https://graph.facebook.com/YOURPAGEID?fields=likes
This will give you the like count for each object, now you just need to sum them.
I just embedded like button on my business page the wax cabana, but it is not showing the real amount that I see on my page. Why? How can that be fixed?
From: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
What makes up the number shown on my Like button?
The number shown is the sum of:
The number of likes of this URL
The number of shares of this URL (this includes copy/pasting a link back to Facebook).
The number of likes and comments on stories on Facebook about this URL
The number of likes and comments on stories on Facebook about this URL
So the Like button does not include only likes, but other things too.
there is a huge discrepancy between the number of likes our page has received and the number of likes displayed when using the like button, and giving it the facebook page's URL (like button is much higher). Does anyone know why this happens?
As described in the doc :
What makes up the number shown on my Like button?
The number shown is the sum of:
The number of likes of this URL
The number of shares of this URL (this includes copy/pasting a link back to Facebook)
The number of likes and comments on stories on Facebook about this URL
The number of inbox messages containing this URL as an attachment.
I am a Facebook Partner Engineer working on platform. To bring your Facebook page Likes to your web page you should use the Like Box rather than the like button. This will allow you to gain Facebook page likes from your website while also giving you the option to show your page's stream stories right in your web site.
You can find out more about the like box here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/
I hope this helps!
Jonathan
My understanding is the like button aggregates likes, comments and other interactions.
Basically the counter next to the button isn't the like count but an activity or interaction count.
You can get the actual like count through the graph api if you need it.