In Facebook Graph API, I'm trying to get the large picture of each user in a search result. The following call will give me the small picture of each user:
https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=Bob%20Grossman&fields=name,id,picture&limit=10&type=user&access_token=*
It's rather easy to get the large picture for a single user, by adding the type=large parameter. But that seems to be ignored when searching (probably since there's already a 'type' parameter used to filter the search results).
Is there any way I can do it with Graph API?
Thanks!
My approach was to pre-fetch all users with the large and square pictures so that I can choose to use either. As far as I know, you cannot do this with the Graph API because the Graph API is pre-defined to present a specific output.
Let me know if you need more information around this.
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How can I query facebook's graph API to retrieve all user's likes (not only pages but also photos and others)?
For instance, how could I get all the pictures a user has liked? Using facebook's search bar you can find them easily by clicking on "photos has liked".
I wrote a script that scrapes the page content and does that but it's not very efficient.
I have recently come accross a similar problem, maybe this helps you solve it.
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/{page_id}/feed?fields=likes.limit(1).summary(true)&since={start_date}&until={end_date}&access_token={access_token}
This will give you a list of all posts that received likes during the specified time period. If you manage to write a code summing up the following JSON path you got your sum for "all user's likes":
data[0].likes.summary.total_count
Not entirely sure is this is exactly what you were searching for, hope it helps you though - and if not you, someone else.
As for likes you can also use the same way to extract Shares and Comments:
Shares
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/{page_id}/feed?fields=shares&since={start_date}&until={end_date}&access_token=
Comments
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/{page_id}/feed?fields=comments.limit(1).summary(true)&since={start_date}&until={end_date}&access_token=
Best regards
There isn't to my knowledge any way to get this from the API without grabbing every type of response from the API and then sorting through for likes. Facebook search bar uses an internal API different from the Graph API.
I want to get the list of comments made by given user through Facebook Graph API.
I haven't found any direct way to get lists of comments. So, I tried to find them through my feed, but it's returning all feed posts. Can we filter other posts where I have not commented?
I tried various queries as below, but could not get exactly what I need.
/me/feed?fields=comments?fields=from?name="my_name",message
/me/feed?fields=comments.fields(from.name("my_name"),message)
I need either (1) list of all comments by me or else (2) lists of posts which I have commented on, filtering out all other posts.
How can we do this?
There's no way to filter via the Graph API. Basically what you want to achieve is IMHO not really possible.
What you could theoretically do is use the comment FQL table, but the field you'd need (fromid) is not indexable: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/comment/ So this could be tough.
i am using this endpoint
https://api.facebook.com/method/links.getStats?urls=
to collect the number of likes of specific urls. I want to display this information on a front end but do not want to make unnecessary API calls (there are over 25,000 posts). I would like to retrieve this information and store it so it can be retrieved from our database. On some pages, there will be over 10 of these accessible view a hover effect from a mouse. I would prefer to not have to load the page up with javascript targeted elements everywhere. It would be much easier to have the information stored and updated periodically. We will not be going over the impression limit or even coming close, but I would like to just make sure I'm not doing anything that will get me in trouble.
I would like permission to utilize this data to help increase pathways between our site and Facebook to allow people to share the page. I'm pretty sure we're doing everything correct but would just like to make sure and not step on anyone's toes.
I read through the checklist here
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/submission-process/
however I don't know if what I'm doing would be considered an app....? Any advice would be appreciated.
Have a look at my answer here: How do I get the likes number from facebook for a given url?
You can also use FQL queries with IN lists to query multiple URLs at once. Please consider that a FQL statement can have a maximum length of 2048 characters.
select url, like_count from link_stat where url in ('URL1', 'URL2', ...)
The "cheklist" you linked is completely unneccessary, because you don't need to submit anything related to OpenGraph objects or actions. You can even use the functionality without using an Access Token, because the link_stat table is public (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/link_stat/)
I want to get all the photos of the user who gave permission to the app. Currently, I tried single and batch request of Graph API but it always paginates the results. Is there a seamless way to get all the objects without following pages?
ps: I'm using PHP-SDK so answering in php is the money :)
I found out that giving limit=0 is solving the problem. It still generates paging object but they return empty data set. So, limit=0 returns the whole dataset in one shot.
I am using search function in Graph API to look for my results. However, these are usually too general. I would like to narrow results but I can't find a way to do it - Graph API offer me only narrowing results by time. On the other hand, FQL does not offer me possibility to obtain results without having IDs of objects.
I figured that the only way is to get results by Graph API and then make FQL query for each result. Do you have any other ideas?
You can search various objects in Facebook using GRAPH API.
You can search over all public objects in the social graph with
https://graph.facebook.com/search.
The format is:
https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=QUERY&type=OBJECT_TYPE
Reference
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/