I'm looking to find old facebook posts using FQL. I tried this:
SELECT actor_id, message, created_time FROM stream
WHERE source_id = me() and (created_time>date1 and created_time<date2)
but even if the interval between date1 and date2 is only one day, it only returns a fraction of the posts. So, I tried chunking them, but even at 1 hour intervals it still doesn't quite get everything, and I quickly approach the 600 query limit for stream requests.
Is there a better way?
Have you tried using Graph API? Something like this should help you out with pages:
https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_ID/feed?value=1&base_amount=1&limit=25&until=1332873234
To query your own posts the url is a bit different:
https://graph.facebook.com/USER_ID/home?value=1&base_amount=1&limit=25&since=1344348794",
You can test Graph API queries here:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=40796308305%2Ffeed
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I am trying to get the summary from multiple campaigns from the facebook graph api. I already managed to get a filtered view, so i just get the Campaigns i need:
I am able to get the reach and impression data by platform for every Campaign, but if i sum it up, its not the same result as marked in the screenshot.
https://graph.facebook.com/v14.0/act_BUSINESS_ID/campaigns?fields=name,id,status,objective,insights{impressions}&filtering=[{field: "id",operator:"IN", value: ['CAMPAIGN_ID1"','CAMPAIGN_ID2"']}]
Is it possible to get the reach and impression Data as a summary and breakdowned by platform like in the Screenshot?
So, finally i got the right way!
The call should look like this:
act_Accunt_id/insights?breakdowns=publisher_platform&fields=ad_id,clicks,unique_clicks,cpm,impressions,reach,spend&default_summary=true&date_preset=maximum&filtering=[{field: "campaign.id",operator:"IN", value: ['ID1','ID2']},{"field":"publisher_platform","operator":"CONTAIN","value":"facebook"}]
I just came up with also filtering by publisher_platform and thats it!
You can filter any campaign field and as long, as you set the default_summary and the date_preset values correctly, the numbers are exact.
I am using Python to query the Reevoo API. As far as I can tell, the options for filtering are somewhat limited and the docs are an exhaustive list of what query parameters you can use. I was wondering if anybody had found a way to filter customer experience reviews with a date range?
Currently my hack solution is to use a generator which calls the API page by page and yields the review if its publish_date is after a certain date, which is obviously really inefficient. It doesn't help that the API returns the results slightly out of order, so I can't break/return as soon as I find one review that's out of range.
for i in range(number_of_pages, 0, -1):
# API call wrapper
page_of_reviews = self.reevoo.get_customer_experience_review_list(self.trkref, older_reviews=True,
page=i, per_page=30)
page_of_reviews = json.loads(page_of_reviews.text.replace('\r\n', ''))
customer_experience_reviews = page_of_reviews.get('customer_experience_reviews')
processed_reviews = self.process_customer_experience_reviews(customer_experience_reviews)
for item in processed_reviews['review_list']:
if from_dt:
if datetime.strptime(item['publish_date'], '%Y-%m-%d') >= datetime.strptime(from_dt, '%Y-%m-%d'):
yield item
else:
yield item
I've scoured the docs and Reevoo's GitHub page and haven't found anything, but in the hopes that some random person on the Internet has found a workaround... Does anyone have any ideas?
I emailed Reevoo to ask about date filtering and the short answer is that there is no way to filter or sort by date.
Explanation from the email:
Unfortunately, we cannot filter reviews by date as when we display the reviews, they are not necessarily in date order. For example, reviews with written content come before those which don't have written content as they have more value to the consumer. We would also prefer that you refreshed everything at least once a day, because older reviews sometimes have to be renewed or customers may sometimes request that there reviews be amended.
I understand why you would lie to do date filtering but at the moment, if you are caching reviews on your server, this is the way we prefer you to do it.
I would like to query earliest posts of a Facebook user using FQL or Graph API. The big issue is by default, Facebook limit return items, which are ordered by descending time.
I know I can limit my query by until, but I don't know what date to put in, because I have no idea when my user become Facebook member. I have to do search like:
find post until Jan 2006
if null, then find post until Jan 2007
if null, then find post until Jan 2008
....
which I hate so much.
Is there a smarter way to find out earliest posts by user?
First off, it's near impossible to have an all encompassing program that determines when a user joined Facebook, to put it quite bluntly. I know from your past questions, you have been trying but many have tried before you, it's not possible.
For example what happens if no one decides to write anything on my wall from the date I joined to 1 year after? That indicator becomes pretty inaccurate now does it?
Anything smarter is based on assumptions that may or may not hold true.
e.g.
Assumption 1: Every Facebook user would publish a post on or near when they joined
this give an initial guess based on A1
Assumptions 2: Given A1, any post by a friend on a user's wall that is posted before the unix time returned by A1 will be earlier in date
this will always be true as long as A1 holds.
All of this falls when there is a year between actual activity and join date.
You can minimize the set returned by calling less data per item and more items overall
/me/feed?fields=created_time&limit=200
Then you page until there is no next paging parameter left.
If you are indeed trying to find when did a user join Facebook, I agree with phwd's answer.
The best way I have been able to find out (which is also cheaper than having to reiterate through tons of posts) is accessing the earliest "profile pictures" of the user. This is making the assumption that a user would post a profile picture soon after creating their account.
Once you can get access to "Profile Pictures" album, you might be able to use created_time field for the album (or sort Profile Pictures by created_time for individual photos).
Even if the earliest photo was deleted, what are the chances that the user stays without any profile picture for a long time?
Reference:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/album
Using the Graph API or FQL, is there a way to efficiently find a user's first post or status? As in, the first one they ever made?
The slow way, I assume, would be to paginate through the feed, but for users like me who joined in 2005 or earlier, that would take a very long time with a huge amount of API calls.
From what I have found, we cannot obtain the date the user registered with Facebook for a good starting point, and we cannot sort by date ascending (not outside of the single page of data returned) to get the oldest post on top.
Is there any reasonable way to do this?
you can use facebook query language (FQL) to get first post information.
Please refer below query for more details :-
SELECT message, time FROM status WHERE uid= me() ORDER BY time ASC LIMIT 1
Please check and let me know in case of any issue.
Thanks and Regards
Durgaprasad
I think the Public API is limited to the depth of information it is allowed to query. Facebook probably put in these constraints for performance and cost concerns. Maybe they've changed it. When I tried to go backwards thru a person's stream about 4 months ago, there seemed to be a limit as to how far back I could go. Maybe it's a time limit or a # posts back limit. If you know when your user first posted, then getting to it should be fairly quick using the since/until time stamps in your queries.
How can I retrieve all my wall feed posts with paging ?
this code $user_profile2 = $facebook->api('/me/feed'); does not retrieve all posts, how can I display posts since specific date ??
use paging
see http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
until, since (a unix timestamp or any date accepted by strtotime): https://graph.facebook.com/search?since=yesterday&q=orange