I'm aware that the Post Graph API object has a privacy attribute that can be specified when an app is allowing the user to create a post.
From that documentation, we can see that:
The description field may contain a comma-separated lists of valid country, city and language if a Page's post targeting by location/language is specified.
Fantastic. So where do we retrieve the current, valid country, cities and languages that are allowed to be used in that field? Guess work? An FQL table that isn't in the docs?
Anyone able to help?
I'm going to answer my own question:
A little un-intuitively, perhaps, you can grab this information from the Facebook ads api here
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Right now I am using Instagram API Platform with the "Public Content
- capabilities to read public media on a user's behalf" rights for my app. As it is stated on the website, it will be deprecated on December 11, 2018 and they are pointing to the new Instagram Graph API.
I went through the documentation but could not find what I need. I would like to know if it is possible with the new API to:
Get all posts info (user that posted, the number of followers, caption, likes count and the media itself). With the Mentions API from Instagram Graph API you can get all posts where your Business account is tagged #account, but they require media_id which I don't have, how do I get it?
Get all posts with a specific hashtag, of a specific user (non-business account) within a timeframe. From the comments it is clear that this is not possible for now. Still hope to get an answer to my first question.
I would like to know if the above mentioned are possible with the new API and it would be nice if you can point me to the right API. Thank you in advance
but they require media_id which I don't have, how do I get it?
You can get the list of media id's on which an account has been tagged using the tags endpoint.
v4.0/<account id>?fields=tags
Once you have the list of media items in which the account has been tagged, you can cycle through them and return the following fields each media post.
Returnable Fields: caption, comments, comments_count, like_count, media_type, media_url, owner — The ID of the user who owns the object., timestamp, username
With the owner ID of the post you might be able to look up more of the fields you are looking for, but you will likely run into some permission issues.
My required functionality is to search for users in Facebook that closely match my search criteria. As a first step, I am trying to get the general details of the users. Suppose say when I search for users whose name as "John Smith", I am getting a list of users.I am able to fetch very few details like id & name only. Say one "John Smith" id is 123456789. I could not get his details of "Relationship status","location", etc through graph api.
Through Graph API
However if I search for the person using the url "https://fb.com/123456789" I can see the general details like relationship_status, location, hometown..etc.
My general understanding is that if can see the details of a person when entering through url, I should also able to get his details when using graph-api. But it is not happening. Am I missing something? Any help or suggestions are much appreciated. Thanks.
Your general understanding is simply wrong. That you can see something publicly on facebook.com, does not mean the same information is freely available via API. The user would have to login to your app and grant it permissions to access this kind of data first, before your app can access it. – CBroe 1 hour ago
I am looking for a way to record user id's of a public post for a brand. If there are any resources available, any help would be appreciated.
Retrieving share data with FB API doesn't seem to be officialy supported by Facebook, but you can retrieve posts shares with Graph API, just do the following:
Get the ID of your post (eg. /me/posts query)
Split the ID on underscore character and get the second part (first part indentifies posts author)
Query the shares: [id_2nd_part]/sharedposts
Note that since it's not officialy supported it may stop working at some point in the future
You can test it with Graph explorer - to get shared posts you need read_stream permissions on your access token if I'm not mistaken
As the title says i want to search with Facebook Api (Graph Api or FQL, that doesnt matter, or even REST) for users.
For example: I want to search for "Britney Spears" and i want to get all users with that name (like %search%).
The result should be like http://www.facebook.com/search/results.php?q=britney%20spears&init=quick&tas=0.8058435615324403&type=users
you can use the search API from the Graph API for a particular user like this:
People: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=USER_NAME&type=user
If you want to search for a list of users, you can you this:
SELECT uid, username, name, pic_square FROM user WHERE contains("Joe Biden")
Refer official user table docs to see all the fields you can query
But the CONTAINS() function is known to be mysterious and no one from facebook has clarified it yet. It might work in some cases and others it might not.
see thread: Documentation for CONTAINS() in FQL?
I guess the final answer would be that you cannot replicate the facebook search functionality like the site does (searching all users of a given name). You can only search users related to the current logged in user who is using your app since these are the type of social apps that facebook wants developers to build. They want you building apps that provide value to their users by utilizing their social graph of their friends and relatives. Developers don't need site wise search for this I suppose, hence there is no API to do this (yet).
The old Facebook API provided the user sex/gender as part of the default user data. Apparently the new Graph API does not provide that information, even though the documentation says that it does.
I've heard people say that you need to request special permissions to get it and other pieces of data, but I have not been successful in getting it to work.
Does anyone have an example, using the Facebook Graph API, of how to get the user's gender and/or location (city/state/country/whatever)?
You need user_location permission to get the location according to the API reference.
GET https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID?fields=gender,location
The Graph API tool explorer is a really handy tool for checking the output.
Just FYI, location (City and state only, country is still missing) and gender have been added to the Graph API sometimes today.
I was testing an app tonight and noticed there was a couple more fields :)
I see this has an open bounty even though the question is really really old.
You can get the gender of any user using Open Graph even without any access_token.
GET https://graph.facebook.com/userid
json_decode the data
gender will be in the `gender` element of the returned array.
EDIT : user location, hometown, country etc are no more there in the /me. seems like Fb removed those, even if they are public.
Hope this helps
As far as I can tell some permissions like user_location simply aren't working at the moment. I can get email permissions and some others but for most of the user_... ones, nope. Yes they are wrong about gender as part of default data and there appears to be no permission for it either. So use the old api until the kinks in the new one get worked out.