This seems like a pretty obvious, basic thing to expect from the Graph API, but I'm having serious difficulty with it. All I want to do is get the ID for any particular URL. They have a method for this:
https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/
And that works great. But if I try another URL, say for my blog,
https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://dusda.vox.com
it doesn't give me back a numerical ID like all of the examples do. Instead, this:
{"http:\/\/dusda.vox.com":{"id":"http:\/\/dusda.vox.com"}}
If I try to use that "id", I get jack (probably because the query string looks impossible to parse):
Request: https://graph.facebook.com/http://dusda.vox.com/likes
Response: {"id":"http:\/\/dusda.vox.com\/likes"}
So what's up with this? Is the Graph API just selectively reliable, or am I misunderstanding something? I've tried it on URLs that I know are popular on Facebook, too, and I've gotten mixed results.
Try FQL for this;
http://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=select%20url%2C%20id%2C%20type%2C%20site%20from%20object_url%20where%20url%20%3D%20%22http%3A%2F%2Fkriek.hu%2F%22
returns:
{
"data": [
{
"url": "http://kriek.hu/",
"id": 497425470154,
"type": "link",
"site": "kriek.hu"
}
]
}
For more information, see object_url.
I hope it helps!
The ID is given by Facebook only to pages which have a fbshare/like button. Else the API returns the number of shares and the request URL.
If I use the facebook object debugger page I can scrape every url, for example:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=ddnl.de
The page give me back an url with ID and so I can get every needed parameters.
In this case https://graph.facebook.com/10150164108649475
But I don't get this ID or url with FQL or otherwise?
Very old question, but here's what I found works for me as none of the answers here really resolved my issue:
If you have a custom object tied to a url, the method suggested by Pepe only gives the id FB assigns to the url where type=link. (Which is not tied to any comments)
In my case, I need my custom object id so that I could pull associated comments from it. You can get the object id using FQL by doing a select on 'comments_fbid' from the 'link_stat' table. (This will return the object id even if no comments have been added so it should work for other cases)
api.facebook.com
At this time no of the suggested solutions work for all urls. Only the Debugger is able to get the Graph ID correctly
For example
Debugger:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.de%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F3810510793%2F
For URL:
www.amazon.de/gp/product/3442465583/
Result:
https://graph.facebook.com/10150771435736113
{
"url": "http://www.amazon.de/dp/3810510793/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk",
"type": "book",
"title": "Die unwahrscheinliche Pilgerreise des Harold Fry: Roman",
"image": [
{
"url": "http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51I4E81xrRL._SL160_.jpg"
}
],
"description": "Die unwahrscheinliche Pilgerreise des Harold Fry: Roman",
"site_name": "Amazon.de",
"updated_time": "2012-12-19T16:54:27+0000",
"id": "10150771435736113",
"application": {
"id": "164734381262",
"name": "Amazon",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=164734381262"
}
}
I had the same problem here, I was trying to get the same data IMDB gets. After almost bang my head against the wall, I decided to look at the facebook's js function. And look what I get, the explanation is on the link.
Getting limited data from a page which has a Facebook ID
Peace
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I am working on integrating GMB into some of our internal apps, and would like to set up to receive real-time notifications for reviews and questions.
I have created a topic, and a subscription with a valid URL.
The next step is to tell GMB to send the notifications to the topic, and I believe the endpoint is the one below. However, it is very vague about the parameters it wants.
This is the documentation
https://developers.google.com/my-business/reference/rest/v4/accounts/updateNotifications
It wants a "Notification Settings Resource Name" in the URL, but it's not explained anywhere what that actually is. I have tried every possible value, but always get a 404 error response with the message "Requested entity was not found."
Has anyone successfully set this up? What values does the "getNotifications" endpoint want, and where in the various dashboards can this be found or created?
Any help is much appreciated!
As mentioned in the comments, you need to send the accountId as part of the URL.
To find this, you will first need to send a GET request to
https://mybusiness.googleapis.com/v4/accounts
This will return something along the following lines:
{
"accounts": [
{
"name": "accounts/102647145453118950380",
"accountName": "Tom Spencer",
"type": "PERSONAL",
"state": {
"status": "UNVERIFIED",
"vettedStatus": "NOT_VETTED"
},
"profilePhotoUrl": "//lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14GgPkuJj03DeCa1isBAJALY4eOl09WGYVFrM4mG5=s132"
},
]
}
You can see here that accounts/102647145453118950380 is returned in the name field. Take this field, and construct the following URL:
https://mybusiness.googleapis.com/v4/accounts/102647145453118950380/notifications
Send a PUT request to this URL, with a request body resembling the following:
{
"topicName": "projects/{projectId}/topics/{topicId}",
"notificationTypes": [
"NEW_REVIEW",
"UPDATED_REVIEW"
]
}
Assuming you have pub/sub setup as per the documentation, this should send a message to your topic/subscribers whenever a new review is created or a review is updated.
I am trying to use Instagram Business Discovery API to get post statistics from a certain public page.
Take Bath and Body Works (https://www.instagram.com/bathandbodyworks) for example.
GET graph.facebook.com
17895695668004550?fields=business_discovery.username(bathandbodyworks){followers_count,media_count,media{timestamp,like_count,comments_count}}
This will give me the following response:
{
"business_discovery": {
"followers_count": 3526159,
"media_count": 3536,
"media": {
"data": [
{
"timestamp": "2018-05-16T20:00:54+0000",
"like_count": 28925,
"comments_count": 530,
"id": "17917935010179826"
},
(24 posts data omitted...)
"paging": {
"cursors": {
"after": "QVFIUlBNak5fNTc3eThl..." (a very long string)
}
}
}
Now, this only gives me the most recent 25 posts, which I believe is the limit per request set by Facebook.
What should I do if I want to load the next 25 posts?
In YouTube Data API there is also a limit per request of 50, but a "nextPageToken" is provided to load the next 50 post. I assume this is the same case here?
I also found in this Facebook API document that maybe I can add a cursor string like: &after=QVFIUlBNak5fNTc3eThl...,
but this doesn't work.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, thank you!
The pagination with business_discovery is a bit different from Facebook
pagination.
There's no next and previous url's.
You need to add, after cursor as this example:
https://graph.facebook.com/v2.12/xxxx?fields=business_discovery.username(jacqehoward){id,name,username,website,profile_picture_url,biography,followers_count,media_count,media.after(QVFIUlZA5aTR5NTE4Y24tNW90VGZAPTVBtb0NpOEFPTlNLeklmVTEtUDZAfVnE0YnBhUVNOQ3BDaktzNHJBTENhTmVYLUV2SGJPZAVAxZA09hQ2NhUGdnUGFjMTNn){id,caption,comments_count,like_count,media_type,media_url,owner,timestamp}}
Note:
media.after(after_cursor){media_fields}
And if you want to paginate through business_discovery to the end you must add after cursors until there's only response with previous cursor. This is the mark that you reached the first post.
I'm completely new to Facebook Graph API.
I'm trying to use the Graph API Explorer: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
I got the token, I'm using GET method and version 2.5 of FQL, and following is the query itself:
me?fields=id,name,picture,feed
The result from that query unfortunately only includes the id, name and picture but does not include the posts. I also tried to write "posts" instead of "feed", but the result was the same.
This is what I get:
{
"id": "123456789",
"name": "John Smith",
"picture": {
"data": {
"is_silhouette": false,
"url": "https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/very-long-url"
}
}
}
As you can see, nothing about the posts.
I also tried to open a new Chrome tab and go directly to this URL:
https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed?access_token=very-long-token
And this is what I get for that:
{
"data": [
]
}
What am I doing wrong?
Any help will be profoundly appreciated!
Did you try with user_posts permission?
Maybe you forgot this...
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.6/user/feed
Your app needs user_posts permission from the person who created the
post or the person tagged in the post. Then your app can read:
Timeline posts from the person who gave you the permission. The posts
that other people made on that person Timeline. The posts that other
people have tagged that person in.
Cheers
i have set of articles on my website where people can comment using facebook.
The fix is I have to find the most commented article and show, say 5 of them, on webpage.
I have tried looking into facebook api, and googled it out for 2-3 days without having any luck.please help
You can query this info from the Facebook API - I'll explain the process to do it, but I'm not a django expert, so you'll need to turn this into Python.
Basically, you need to grab the URLs for each of your articles and hit the Graph API requesting the comments and a summary of them for that URL like this: https://graph.facebook.com/comments/?ids=YOUR-URL&summary=1
Change the YOUR-URL part of the above to the link you want to check. You can even specify more than one link at at time if you like: https://graph.facebook.com/comments/?ids=YOUR-URL1,YOUR-URL2&summary=1
So if you query the example.com comments:
Hit this URL https://graph.facebook.com/comments/?ids=http://example.com/comments&summary=1
You should get back some JSON data which looks like this (I trimmed the middle bit):
{
"http://example.com/comments": {
"comments": {
"data": [
...
],
"paging": {
"cursors": {
"after": "NDc4OQ==",
"before": "NDgyMg=="
},
"next": "https://graph.facebook.com/10150107083136229/comments?summary=1&limit=25&after=NDc4OQ\u00253D\u00253D"
},
"summary": {
"order": "ranked",
"total_count": 4822
}
}
}
}
In the "summary" section you can see there is a total_count which is the number of comments made on that URL.
So your process will be:
Loop through all the links you want to check
Hit the Facebook Graph API for that URL Extract the total_count response in the JSON and
store it (perhaps in a table)
Order the results on the number of comments descending, limiting to
only the first 5 results (if you're using MySQL then something like
SELECT * FROM whatever ORDER BY total_count DESC LIMIT 5)
Goal:
I want to specify privacy for posts, that are done through my application, when I post to a Page's wall, using Pagetoken.
Problem:
Using page token, I do post to URL "https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed"
with the following body —
{
"message": "from app with security after requesting a username",
"privacy": {
"description": "Amsterdam, Netherlands, Netherlands",
"value": "CUSTOM"
}
}
An receive such a terrible answer —
{
"error": {
"message": "(#100) Posts where the actor is a page cannot also include privacy.",
"type": "OAuthException"
}
}
Even through it is said in documentation, here - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#posts,
that Pages#post.privacy is supported.
And explicitly:
"The description field may contain a comma-separated lists of valid country, city and language if a Page's post targeting by location/language is specified."
Please help me out, what am I doing wrong?
I posted the bug in Facebook Developers Bug reporter tool
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/238365492903384
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This looks like a documentation bug. I have attached a screenshot of the old version of the docs. Try using "targeting" with the same location format as:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/adsapi/targeting_specs/
I've also requested a fix for the docs.