Getting Likes count of each posts on a fan page in Facebook - facebook

Question

How do I get the 'like' count of a post on Facebook?
I got a link graph.facebook.com/userid_postid that says says I can do this. But How do I find the user or page ID and the ID of the post?
For example, if take any post on the fan page:
http://www.facebook.com/TipsLearnings of site http://adityabajaj.com
If I make a post on the fan page above, and people like the post, how would I get the number of likes of that post? I want to have that number available to show on a separate website.

Answer 1

You can use FQL
SELECT like_info.like_count, share_info.share_count, comment_info.comment_count FROM stream WHERE post_id = 'your_post_id'

Answer 2

You can get a list of most recent posts a fan page made by using /<PAGE_ID>/posts (which you can find for your page by navigating to http://graph.facebook.com/myown.easytipsandtricks, or just use the username) with a valid access token. From that, you get an object that looks like this:
"data": [
{
"id": "22092443056_115909438544849",
"from": {
"name": "Starbucks",
"category": "Food/beverages",
"id": "22092443056"
},
// ...
"shares": {
"count": 708
},
"likes": {
"data": [
{
"name": "Shanna Gonzales",
"id": "100000244536406"
}
],
"count": 17129
},
"comments": {
"count": 759
}
}
// ... and more posts
Accessing the count subfield of each of those fields should tell you shares, likes and comments, respectively.

Answer 3

You can get the comments/likes count without having to paginate by using the fields parameter in combination with likes.limit(1).summary(true). For example, a search api query for pizza below will give you all public posts and their likes count summarized:
https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=pizza&type=post&fields=id,name,likes.limit(1).summary(true)
results (truncated):
{
"data": [
{
"id": "47883936273_659693910762305",
"name": "Instagram",
"created_time": "2014-02-16T01:15:29+0000",
"likes": {
"data": [
{
"id": "100002243084532",
"name": "Yvette Martin"
}
],
"paging": {
"cursors": {
"after": "MTAwMDAyMjQzMDg0NTMy",
"before": "MTAwMDAyMjQzMDg0NTMy"
},
"next": "https://graph.facebook.com/47883936273_659693910762305/likes?limit=1&summary=1&after=MTAwMDAyMjQzMDg0NTMy"
},
"summary": {
"total_count": 13682
}
}
},
{
"id": "136336876521150_314001148754721",
"name": "Pizza Box Turns into Plates & Storage Unit!",
"created_time": "2014-02-15T21:20:00+0000",
"likes": {
"data": [
{
"id": "100005373008864",
"name": "Liliana Campoli"
}
],
"paging": {
"cursors": {
"after": "MTAwMDA1MzczMDA4ODY0",
"before": "MTAwMDA1MzczMDA4ODY0"
},
"next": "https://graph.facebook.com/136336876521150_314001148754721/likes?limit=1&summary=1&after=MTAwMDA1MzczMDA4ODY0"
},
"summary": {
"total_count": 2792
}
}
}