I am currently collecting all page posts via the api using the since parameter i.e.
12345678910/feed?since=[LastCheckTimeUnix]
However I need to know if any earlier posts have been updated, using the updated_time field.
The only way I can see is to collect every post ever posted and then check the updated_time. However this is obviously inefficient. Is there a way to obtain all posts with an updated_time > LastCheckTime?
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With FQL being deprecated, is there an alternative graph-y way of fetching the post-comments from a specific user without resorting to downloading all comments first and enumerating them?
Before I could just trigger an FQL statement like
SELECT text FROM comment
WHERE post_id = '<postid>' AND fromid = '<uid>'
But since that is no longer supported without using the older API, I'm wondering if there's an alternative for v2.1 and up?
Why? I organise a fair amount of give-away-contests on Facebook and have a script that retrieves the amount of likes from the announcement post, picks a number of random ones and then retrieves the comments of those users on that same post.
As a side remark: I hate it that I as a page owner cannot retrieve a list of people that liked my own page via the API. I still have to check that manually each time.
Unfortunately there's no way to filter the comments by user directly with the current Graph API version.
If you're using a v2.0 app, you can still use FQL until August 7th 2016. I'd wait and see if FB amends the Graph API with similar functionality as FQL had in the future.
I am getting Facebook posts and their comments from the facebook graph API (I cannot use FQL). I am able to save the posts and their comments successfully into my database. However, I am not able to get the new comments where are there on the post which I dont have in my tables. I tried
postid/comments?time=2014-04-13T00:00:00+0000
postid/comments?since=2014-04-13T00:00:00+0000
postid/comments?since_id=001122334455
but it is still not giving me records after that date. I also referred this post but it does not has a solution.
If you convert your time to a unix time stamp, then it should work.
For instance, the Unix timestamp for the time above is 1428935421
postid/comments?since=1428935421
http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm
Is there a way to get the "People Talking About This" statistic for a specific post on a Facebook Page ? The Insights API doesn't say it's possible. ( post_storytellers doesn't exist )
'People Talking About This' aggregates various interactions into a single metric including:
liking a Page
posting to a Page’s Wall
liking, commenting on or sharing a Page post (or other content on a page, like photos, videos or albums)
answering a Question posted
RSVPing to an event
mentioning a Page in a post
phototagging a Page
liking or sharing a check-in deal
or checking in at a Place.
As far as i'm aware there's no way to retrieve this value using the graph api without scraping the page directly.
You can however retrieve the total_count for a url which is an aggregation of shares, likes, comments via FQL, for example: https://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=SELECT%20total_count%20FROM%20link_stat%20WHERE%20url='https://www.stackoverflow.com'
more info: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/link_stat
Was wondering if anyone knows how to get the historical data for any Facebook Page.
For example, number of fans for RedBull fan page on a given day in the past or for a given period that ends today so that I can show fan development of any page over a given period.
I tried it with the graph API and FQL (insights) but no luck.
https://graph.facebook.com/{USERNAME}/insights?fields=likes&period('week')&end_time_date('2011-06-26') --> empty result
Pulling the data via FQL also returns no results, plus it seems without a read_insights permission nothing is possible for page data
I'd need this to be available with only a generic user access token. This data is publicly available anyway. Result should be somewhat like this: http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-pages/australia/
https://graph.facebook.com/{{pagename}}/insights/page_views?access_token={{access_token_key}}&since=1420070400&until=1421625600
Since & until parameter in the above code takes in unix time.
add necessary information in the {{ }} and this code should work.
Without insight permission I recommend that you write something to perform a nightly query on the page graph and record the stats you need. If the page is public most of the information shown on that site is available.
You could also scrape info from http://pagedata.appdata.com if the page has already been listed...
I'm trying to get some insights on a list of Posts by a Page on Facebook.
To be specific, I want to get the information highlighted in this blog post via the API.
But I can't figure out how, anyone knows how?
As far as I know it's only possible using the "stream" table. So you've got to use FQL to query this data. Using this technique you'll only get the impressions directly. Feedback rate can be calculated by adding #comments and #likes and dividing the result by #impressions. Hope they'll add this to the insights graph api as well.
MartinHN
Refer to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/#analytics
If you are trying to aggregate multiple pages or a page other than the requesting app then you may need grant read_insights permissions to your application.
Refer to http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/insights/