Is it possible to query more than one insights metric in one API call?
For example to get the daily added likes for a page I executed the following call:
https://graph.facebook.com/_object_id_/insights/page_fan_adds_unique/day/
But I would like to have another metric, e.g., page_fan_removes_unique, included as well.
Query the insights object entirely is a possibility, but gives me too much data I don't need, thus decreases performance.
Since your question shows that you're using the Graph API, you may want to use the batch requests method: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/batch/
You can group multiple Graph API queries together so you can just query the Insights data you need in one request.
Yes, you can run a multiple FQL query in one API call and then parse the various results.
multi query: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/rest/fql.multiquery/
insights table: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/insights/
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I want download WIQL report using REST API. REST response doesn't give all fields but it gives a list of URLS as workItems.
To get field values I need to download each WorkItem separately.
Any direct REST way to accomplish this in a single REST call?
Repeated REST calls gives me rate limiting or similar error. I get error 500 types after repeated GET request.
Genesis of this need is - There are no aggerate functions available likes of SUM, MAX, MIN, AVG Etc.
REST response doesn't give all fields but it gives a list of URLS as
workItems.
To get field values I need to download each WorkItem separately. Any
direct REST way to accomplish this in a single REST call?
Sorry but as I know, there's no direct rest api available to get WIQL report. An alternative workaround should be:
1.Use Query By Wiql to return the list of WorkItem IDs and Urls (I think this is the same rest api you use).
2.Then use Get Work Items Batch to get all the details(fields) about the requested work item ids. And here's one issue which has similar needs like yours, you can use the upgraded script from konpro11 to get list of IDs and use the IDs to get your report (with the help of second rest api).
Hope it helps :)
I'm trying to fetch most recent posts of several pages using facebook FQL. Here is my query:
# https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/145634995501895/?fql=SELECT%20message%20FROM%20stream%20WHERE%20source_id%20in%20(755751084454823%2C%20616632928446954)
SELECT message FROM stream WHERE source_id in (755751084454823, 616632928446954)
And it returns 0 results. On the other hand, sending exact same query but for a single page ID returns posts for that given query properly. So, those two queries works great:
# https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/145634995501895/?fql=SELECT%20message%20FROM%20stream%20WHERE%20source_id%20in%20(616632928446954)
SELECT message FROM stream WHERE source_id in (616632928446954)
# https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/145634995501895/?fql=SELECT%20message%20FROM%20stream%20WHERE%20source_id%20in%20(755751084454823)
SELECT message FROM stream WHERE source_id in (755751084454823)
I can't quite understand why it behaves like that. Any help much appreciated.
To get posts from multiple Pages, use separate calls to the feed endpoint with the Graph API. Example code for this can be found in the docs:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.6/page/feed
You can use Batch Request to make those calls faster, it will take as long as the slowest API call in the batch: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/making-multiple-requests
FQL is deprecated and will stop working in August 2016. You can´t use it in new Apps anymore.
For the Marketing API, I know that I'm able to make one call to retrieve all of the adsets from a certain account along with their insights, but am I able to specify the date_preset for the insights edge in that same call?
For example, the following gives me lifetime insights stats:
/v2.4/{accountID}/adcampaigns?fields=insights
To be clear - I know this is possible to retrieve by making separate calls for each adset id (where I know I can specify the date_preset); instead, I'd like to do this via the call where I get a long list of the ad sets plus their insights details in one go.
Yes this is possible using query expansion, however you probably should not do it in this anyway.
Using query expansion results in multiple requests being executed in one HTTP call, in this case one to get all the adcampaigns, and then N requests where N is the number of adcampaigns returned. This will in turn affect your rate limiting.
The most efficient way to request all insights for all adcampaigns (ad sets) is instead to request them at the account level, specifying aggregation level:
/v2.4/act_{ADACCOUNT_ID}/insights?date_preset=last_7_days&level=campaign
This requires just 1 request, or the number of requests to retrieve the total number of pages.
If you really want to achieve this with query expansion, you can do the following for example:
/v2.4/act_{ADACCOUNT_ID}/adcampaigns?fields=insights.date_preset(last_30_days).time_increment(all_days)
You can see the parameters to insights that would normally be query parameters of the form param_name=param_value are now in the form of param_name(param_value).
To specify the date_preset , here is the correct format . Its important to use insights as edge to get the date_preset filtering .
/v2.10/act_{ADACCOUNT_ID}/insights?fields=impressions,clicks,ctr,unique_clicks,unique_ctr,spend,cpc&date_preset=last_3d
The above one is tested with latest Graph Api version(2.10) as of now . FOr more info related to the date_preset values refer to there api docs .
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/insights/parameters
I'm trying to get events in Facebook that have a certain phrase or description in them. I'd like to not have the results filtered or limited, as the phrase is fairly specific.
As an example, the phrase I'm looking for is "UMvC3" (short for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3).
That said, I could run an FQL query (and subsequently enrich with a call to the Graph API, like so):
select eid from event where contains("umvc3") and start_time >= now()
order by update_time desc
This will give me upcoming events with "umvc3" in them as well as only ones occurring in the future (I'm not concerned with past events).
However, the selection is severely limited. For example, the following isn't returned in the search results:
https://www.facebook.com/events/595137740538545/
It clearly has "umvc3" in the description text.
I can perform a search using the Graph API, but that doesn't return the above result either. Additionally, I can't filter using the Graph API on the start_time or order the results in a manner where I can stop processing the result set once I get to a certain point.
Finally, there is the Public Feed API, which will give me the entire firehose (which isn't filterable, like Twitter's, unfortunately), so I'll have to filter in real-time, which could be near impossible.
That said, am I approaching this the wrong way, or is there no way to really get a comprehensive, exact set of results from the Facebook API for events?
Note: I'm using the access_token provided by the Graph Explorer in the tools section.
The description column of Event FQL table isn't indexable, thus the freestyle search on not indexable columns won't give any result.
The results you see by running the query you suggested gives only events where the 'umvc3' is in the name column, which is indexable.
The only option is to ask facebook for fulltext indexing this column which apparently won't happen. They surely won't open any column for using clause like 'LIKE' since the query execution will take a lot of time.
And the answer from Facebook developer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5824449/334522
I am performing a rest call to facebooks search API using type=event
e.x.
search?fields=id,name,picture,owner,description,start_time,end_time,location,venue,updated_time,ticket_uri&q=concert&type=event
I have looked through the documentation and still have a few questions about specific pagination behavior of the event search API.
If I used a broad search term like "ma" and keep querying the pagination ['next'] URL would I cycle through all facebook events starting with "ma"? Does the pagination array give any indication when there are no more results to return?.
Do these searches include past events? If so is it possible to eliminate past events using the "since" parameter?
What is the maximum for the limit parameter?
Update:
As far as I can tell the number of pages you can get from a facebook search is limited to 500. This includes pages that can be accessed via pagination. In other words a query with limit >=500 will not return a pagination url, likewise a query with limit 250 will only return one pages worth of pagination.
You will "next page" until the count of results comes less then the limit
I'm not sure if that is possible using a simple Graph Request. Maybe using FQL
I don't know exactly. But i used a 2000 limit one day. And it worked.
Other doubts you can get answers testing your resquests with this tool
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
I am also doing the same thing like you. I am collecting public post using graph search api.
When there are no results available or you reach max limit pagination section will not be there in response. So you can always check for paging is there in json response or not something like this.
NextResult = DeserJsonFBResponce.paging != null ? DeserJsonFBResponce.paging.next : string.Empty;
I am not so sure about this with events but for public post i am able to eliminate post using science and until parameters.
Maximum for the limit parameter is 2000 per get request.