Getting event attending_count on venue-id/events on Facebook Graph API - facebook-graph-api

Question

I'm trying to get the attending_count on facebook graph API. I know that going throug /event-id?fields=attending_count I will have this info available but when trying this inside the venue /venue-id/events?fields=attending_count this is not being displayed.
Here is what i'm trying:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.2/217733628398158/events?fields=id,cover,name,venue,description,ticket_uri,start_time,attending_count&access_token=....
Any ideas?

Answer 1

There's no attending_count field on the Event object, but there is an attending edge:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.2/event#readfields
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.2/event/attending#read
Why are you trying to get the attending_count on the Venue's Page ID? That doesn't make much sense.
You can use the summary to get the absolute count of attendees like this
/217733628398158/events?fields=id,cover,name,venue,description,ticket_uri,start_time,attending.summary(true).limit(1)
To reduce the amount of data returned by the Graph API I added the .limit(1) which is only returning one attendee per event, but producing the summary count anyway. If you need the whole list, remove the limit parameter.
So, it returns
{
"data": [
{
"id": "326299167565639",
"cover": {
"cover_id": "839491946113340",
"source": "https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/s720x720/10547740_839491946113340_540194689313513221_o.jpg",
"offset_y": 28,
"offset_x": 0
},
"name": "Feeling This • Histórias de verão",
"venue": {
"name": "Lima e Silva, 1037, Porto Alegre"
},
"description": "ARE YOU FEELING THIS?\nÉ a nostalgia da estação quente que tá batendo!\n\nFaça aqui a sua história de verão.\nThese are the best days of our lives!\n\n-\n\nIngressos:\nR$15 com Feeling Cup!*\nR$20 na lista* <http://goo.gl/1I9vV8>\nR$25 na hora\n\n* Lista encerra às 20h do dia da festa. \n* Válido para entrada até 00h\n\n\nQuer comemorar seu aniversário na FEELING THIS? Entre em contato através do e-mail cucko#cucko.com.br para saber das vantagens.",
"ticket_uri": "https://www.facebook.com/ajax/events/ticket.php?event_id=326299167565639&source=12&ext=1421830108&hash=ATX8w7CCSBVhKO6G",
"start_time": "2015-02-04T22:00:00-0200",
"attending": {
"data": [
{
"name": "Foo Pretenders",
"rsvp_status": "attending",
"id": "1395261354109384"
}
],
"paging": {
"cursors": {
"after": "TVRBd01EQTROelkxT1RnMk9UYzBPakUwTWpNd09UUTBNREE2TVRZMU1EZzBPRGsyT0RRNE5UZ3g=",
"before": "TVRBd01EQTROelkxT1RnMk9UYzBPakUwTWpNd09UUTBNREE2TVRZMU1EZzBPRGsyT0RRNE5UZ3g="
},
"next": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.2/326299167565639/attending?summary=true&limit=1&after=TVRBd01EQTROelkxT1RnMk9UYzBPakUwTWpNd09UUTBNREE2TVRZMU1EZzBPRGsyT0RRNE5UZ3g="
},
"summary": {
"count": 634
}
}
},
....
]
There are 634 people attending the specific event.