Facebook Places API 500 result limit - facebook

Facebook OpenGrap API limit results of [id]/checkins to 500. Is there are way to retrieve more than 500. Example if I want to retirve all the place someone has checkin for year 2011. What are possible available methods. Is there a premium service provided by Facebook.
Regards,
Waruna.

As the open grpah documentation describes, there should be a "paging" object at the end of the api response if there is more content than you could load at one time. You can test this by clicking the example links inthe documentation. So, the solution is: Loop your requests until there is no "next" property in the "paging" object of the response.
Also there are possibilites to batch your requests, maybe this is also useful for you.

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Instagram/Facebook deprecating many APIs [duplicate]

I use some self developed script to get info about my posts and followers. Recently I discovered that Instagram changed rate limits for my app. I see following info in headers:
x-ratelimit-limit: 200
I learned Instagram blog and page with changes but found no mentions about any changes since Oct 1, 2017.
Is this new limit related only to my token or to entire platform? Could you check your token?
Yes It is, Although no official communication.
I also experienced that.
I found this in their documentation.
The Instagram API uses the same rate limiting as the Graph API (200 calls per user per hour) with one exception: the /media/comments edge limits writes to 60 writes per user per hour. Please refer to the Graph API's rate limiting documentation for more information.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/overview/#rate-limiting
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/02/instagram-api-limit/
Hope this will be helpful.
Update:-
Further on 4th April few more APIs deprecated by Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/developer/changelog/
Some perspective:
This 200 per hour call has been in the Graph API documentation for at least a month (according to wayback machine).
Facebook must have panicked over the weekend and pressed the "require Graph API permissions" button, thus our current situation. :\
Yes,
The limit has been reduced.
Here are some reference links for detailed documentation:
Instagram API limit reduced to 200 from 5000
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/02/instagram-api-limit/
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/overview/#rate-limiting
Hope it helps
Thanks
Here's our answer: https://www.instagram.com/developer/changelog/
The API deprecated immediately. So really the limits probably don't matter that much anymore. I really don't see myself building another app based on their API...
Here is The New Instagram's Public Api Update , unfortunately Limit rates are worthless for some Features in Instagram .
April 4, 2018
The following endpoints are deprecated immediately:
Follows and Relationships
GET /users/self/follows
GET /users/self/followed-by
GET /users/self/requested-by
GET /users/{user-id}/relationship
POST /users/{user-id}/relationship
Commenting on Public Content
GET /media/{media-id}/comments (Deprecation not relevant when fetching comments for self media)
POST /media/{media-id}/comments
DEL /media/{media-id}/comments/comment-id
Media
GET /media/{media-id}
GET /media/shortcode/{shortcode}
Likes
GET /media/{media-id}/likes
POST /media/{media-id}/likes
DEL /media/{media-id}/likes
User Search
GET /users/{user-id}
GET /users/{user-id}/media/recent
GET /users/self/media/liked
GET /users/search
Subscriptions - to receive notifications when media is posted
Some information on Public Content returned through hashtag and location search will be removed - Name, Bio, Comments, Commenters, Follower Count, Following Count, Post Count, and Profile Picture

Facebook graph api - Unsupported get request

I'm creating a custom module in Drupal, that for part of its functionality must fetch posts from a business page. So for simplicity, I'm using fbapp module as a dependency (drupal.org/project/fbapp), so that I can use it's authentication and request functions (fbapp_app_authenticate() and fbapp_graph_request()) without having to worry about the constant facebook graph updates making my own code obsolete.
I've created a facebook app, so authentication should be app token, using appid and app secret. This seems fine and I'm getting back access_token. However, when I try to read posts from a publicly available page (the clients), I get the response:
"Unsupported get request. Please read the Graph API documentation at https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/graph-api"
Here's the queries and responses my code produces:
graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=<redacted>&client_secret=<redacted>&grant_type=client_credentials
array(1) {
["access_token"]=>
string(43) "<redacted>|<redacted>"
}
graph.facebook.com/<page_id>/posts?access_token=<redacted>|<redacted>"
string(183) "{"error":{"message":"Unsupported get request. Please read the Graph API documentation at https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/graph-api","type":"GraphMethodException","code":100}}"
Can anyone verify a correct way to query a Facebook page programmatically, perhaps there's a setting in the page I'm querying that I need to set (although I can't find anything)?
If page restrictions apply, the page's feed can only be retrieved with an user access token as far as I know (because FB needs to evaluate the visibility criteria, and setting your app to the same restrictions doesn't help here):
See
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.4/page/feed#readperms
It looks like everything you have done is correct. The response you got can be (i am not sure) because you got your clients pageid wrong.

How to get Facebook page total likes number with the new Graph API (v2.4)

So recently there was a update to the Facebook Graph API and now pretty much everything requires a access_token to retrieve any type of data.
Previously you could get the number of page likes by accessing the graph like so:
http://graph.facebook.com/{page-name}
But now if you try it says you need to have a access token because of a recent update to the API. Now the issue i am having is i cant access the likes even with an access token this is the response i am getting:
Request
http://graph.facebook.com/{page-name}/?access_token={access_token}
Response
array(2) {
["name"] "Page Name"
["id"] "Page Id"
}
Now at first i thought the access token wasn't being generated with the correct scopes but i am 99% sure you only need read_stream to pull that type of data.
Second thought is that they have removed the ability to acces likes of any page and you need a page token to receive that type of data or finally i am missing something incredibly small here and its still achievable?
So my question is can you still get the number of likes of any page using the Facebook Graph API and if the answer is yes how do you do it?
any help appreciated
This can help you! Just add ?fields=likes after the page name/id. You can use any access token for fetching data!
graph.facebook.com/{page_name}?fields=likes&access_token={token}
The Graph API v2.4 reduces the number of fields in default responses.
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2015/07/08/graph-api-v2.4/
Fewer default fields for faster performance: To help improve performance on mobile network connections, we've reduced the number of fields that the API returns by default. You should now use the ?fields=field1,field2 syntax to declare all the fields you want the API to return.
If you do ?fields=likes it should show up.
You can do like this:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.4/{page_id}/fields=likes

How to get facebook share, like, comment count for a url with graph api only (in a non-deprecated way)

The problem is that after v2.1 of graph api fql will be deprecated.
Can someone tell me how to get separate likes, share count for given url using only graph api? I was looking for some documentation, but there isn't any, i can get only total "shares" which is likes + shares + comments.
Yes i know there is immortal http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls, but what if facebook shuts it down at last?
The REST API (with calls like http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls) was announced as deprecated with the introduction of the Graph API v2.1: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog#v2_1_deprecations but also already in 2011: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/616/
So, from my understanding, this will yield in the inoperability of this feature at two years after the introduction of v2.1 on 7th August 2016:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/versions#howlong
The closest you can get to the "old" REST of FQL API call results with the Graph API is this afaik:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.3/url/
but it omits the like_count metric (don't ask me why...).
My personal opinion is that you should continue to use the FQL calls to the link_stat (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/link_stat/) table, because this will be available for nearly the next 2 years. This is only possible if you have a v2.0 app. Maybe there'll be some additional endpoints for the Graph API until then.
I suggest using a tool like SharedCount, it offers a lot more platforms too. Here is how they get the data: http://www.sharedcount.com/documentation.php (Scroll down to "Sources")
So for Facebook it would be like this:
https://api.facebook.com/method/links.getStats?urls=%%URL%%&format=json
You get a JSON object like this one:
..."share_count":66,"like_count":15,"comment_count":1,"total_count":82...
Edit: This is deprecated now, but there is another possibility, explained in this thread: Get FB likes, shares and comments for a URL using PHP - with no limit
You can use facebook graph api like https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://mycodingtricks.com and it will return a json code like
{
"http://mycodingtricks.com":{
"id":"http://mycodingtricks.com",
"shares":1
}
}
I have developed my own php script on which you can all social count using that api.
http://mycodingtricks.com/share/social.php?url=YOUR-URL-HERE and it will return data like:
{
"facebook":[
{
"share_count":1,
"like_count":0,
"comment_count":0,
"total_count":1,
"click_count":0,
"comments_fbid":567687199998199,
"commentsbox_count":0
}
],
"googleplus":10,
"twitter":3,
"buffer":0,
"pinterest":0,
"stumblupon":1,
"reddit":"<html><body><h1>403 Forbidden<\/h1>\nRequest forbidden by administrative rules.\n<\/body><\/html>\n",
"linkedin":0
}
But if you wants to use on your own Here is a complete article about how to count facebook share,like and all.
http://mycodingtricks.com/php/2-ways-to-count-facebook-likes-shares-and-comments-using-php/
actually the correct way for getting the like number is this:
http://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/?id=YOUR_URL&fields=og_object{engagement}
the brackets after the og_object is the second level of og_object.
see documentation here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/url
you might need to encode the url and brackets so it will look something like:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/?id=ENCODED_URL&fields=og_object%7Bengagement%7D&id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com
see a working example in
graph explorer (hit the submit button)
All answers are wrong or incomplete since latest shut down of API 2.1!
I am the author of the social media plugin MashShare and i recently had to do exact observations for this issue as it seriously affected the share count of our plugin.
Verified data by observations:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.7/?id=https://www.mashshare.net contains shares and likes.
As far as i found out the only way to get a number near the real share count of a post is to get first the likes of a url. Than take this number and subtract it from the total number of shares and likes.
To get the like count you need to take the object id of the url and create another API request:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.7/14206851986099/likes?summary=true
If you know how to merge both requests into one please let me know.
As of August 19th 2016 facebook completely shutdown their rest API.
The only alternative is to use the graph API as suggested above.

iPhone facebook integration

I am using Graph API in my application. I am fetching user's facebook wall feeds using graph API also getting details of particular post i.e (Like count,Comments etc).
but i want to allow user to Like and Comment any post from the application itself.
what is the request format for that?
Please help me or give any pointers.
Regards,
Sanket
You would be well served to check out the Publishing section of the documentation. It provides information such as this.
One example is liking, which is defined as:
Method: /OBJECT_ID/likes
Description: Like the given object (if it has a /likes connection)
Arguments: none
Basically, just initiate a Graph API call to something like:
[facebookObject requestWithGraphPath:#"98423808305/likes" andDelegate:self];
That will "like" a picture from Coca-Cola (ID taken from the documentation).
Edit 1
According to the documentation:
Most write operations require extended permissions for the active user. See the authentication guide for details on how you can request extended permissions from the user during the authentication step.
Are you sure you have enough privileges? Unfortunately the documentation is very unclear as to whether it serves the dual purpose of liking the object and returning the likes already on that object.
Edit 2
I did some more research into what could be causing this and came across this question and answer that indicated that the code I posted above using requestWithGraphPath:: should work. However, it does not due to a bug on Facebook's Bug Tracker.
Unfortunately, it looks like there is no way to "like" an object via the Graph API, which seems very strange to me. Perhaps it is possible with the legacy REST API instead of the Graph API?
Edit 3
Well, it looks like your best bet is the stream.addLike method of the legacy REST API which you can still call using the Facebook iOS SDK. You should be able to use the stream.addLike method to "like" something in the "stream". Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to support photos, videos, etc. Only posts and comments.
Finally i found the solution for LIKE option
We should use following method for like option.
-(void) requestWithGraphPath:(NSString *)graphPath
andParams:(NSMutableDictionary *)params
andHttpMethod:(NSString *)httpMethod
andDelegate:(id <FBRequestDelegate>)delegate
graphPath = /OBJECT_ID/likes
Paramas = dictionary with comment ,for like option use empty dictionary
HttpMethod should be POST
you should get response = true if the LIKE request is successful.