Facebook API get number of posts? - facebook

Question

Given a page access token, how can get the total number of posts day by day?

Answer 1

You can query the FQL insights table: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/insights/
the insight you're looking for in in the Page Content section of that link.
However, that is an insight that is being deprecate on 2/15. So be sure to get your data quick. It's being removed from Facebook. I don't know why.

Answer 2

You can only retrieve a summary/count for published posts on a page. Something like this will work when querying the Page directly:
{PAGE}?fields=published_posts.limit(1).summary(total_count).since(1)
The response will look something like:
{
published_posts: {
summary: {
total_count: 12345
},
...
}
}
or if you want to query the published_posts directly, use:
{PAGE}/published_posts?limit=1&summary=total_count&since=1
The response will look something like:
{
summary: {
total_count: 12345
},
...
}
Setting limit to 1 ensures that your query is not unnecessarily large. If you're just needing the total post count, then set limit to 1.
The since parameter is a unix timestamp (milliseconds since January 1, 1970) and is required to retrieve the total post count. Set this to 1 as setting it to 0 will throw an error.
More details: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/page/published_posts/