Trying to get Insights with FQL-query but getting no data - facebook-fql

I'm trying to get some statistical data from my page using FQL like so:
SELECT metric, value FROM insights WHERE object_id=278942378807967 AND metric='page_fan_adds' AND end_time=1327903200 AND period = 2592000
However all that is returned is:
{
"data": [
]
}
I also tried different dates and periods, most of which I'm pretty sure there should be data presented...

You're probably missing a valid access token on your query to get the stats.

period can only be 86400 or period("day")

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You're not getting the specific Page you mentioned because your're using the biggest radius possible (50000m), which yields in probably tens of thousands results (which FB is not returning completely). You can use LIMIT start, number in your query, but still FB won't return a high five-digit amount of results at once.

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{
"data": [
]
}
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{
"data": [
{
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]
}
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And I know that I can retrieve page_fans using other ways as well !!
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If you request any other period, you will either get an error or no data (which means someone other than you can request that metric for a different period).
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{
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...
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}
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{
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More details: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/page/published_posts/