This has been asked before but I haven't seen a definitive answer. Hopefully someone has an answer. Basically, it seems impossible to pull any post that is geo-tageted via the API becasue it has privacy settings, that is, a country set to who can see it.
I am using https://graph.facebook.com/".$pagetoprocess."/posts?&access_token=".$att and this will pull the posts but not any posts that are geotargeted to the UK for example.
If I create an accesstoken from a user who is an admin of the page then I see all posts including geotargeted posts.
Why would this be? how can I see all posts for any page whether I am an admin or not or whether it is geo-targeted?
I would have thought that if you creaded an app in the UK and therefore had an app and secret id code from which you then generated a user access token, why would you not be able to see a post from a page geo-targeting the UK? Seems strange.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Jonathan
I would think that all posts would appear, or at least that is what it says on the api. You could try using feed instead of posts, since posts is a derivative. You might also try using:
&include_hidden=TRUE
But I'm not sure that will help.
If you have the page url, I'd be willing to see if I can play around with it in the graph explorer.
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I'm using Graph API to fetch my page feeds. I call
$pageID/feed?fields=created_time,object_id,story_tags,story,full_picture,picture,message_tags,message,caption,child_attachments,attachments,description,admin_creator,from
It gives me the feeds in my page which is fine. But, I also want the list of posts where anyone has mentioned my page in their posts in their own walls. I have gone through https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.9 but could not find a way to do that. Does anyone has any idea if that is possible?
If yes, then how?
There is the /{page-id}/tagged endpoint; but that will only return posts by other pages that have tagged yours, and only if those pages are “authentic” (which likely means verified.)
And user posts are not available at all to your app, not even if they are public - unless the user explicitly granted your app permission to read their posts.
I have written a PHP based blog for the company i work for. Not using any frameworks. I am having trouble tracking users who come from my facebook page's posts to my blog (not wordpress).
I have created a shortlink url. Let's say it is sample.co and it redirects traffic to sample.com. Everything seems fine until here. The problem starts here.
I am adding all user's ip's, user agents. But if even i get 500 visits, my code adds somethig like 3.000 visits. Facebook stats and Analytics shows similar stats (~500 visits). I see that ip's added to MySQL are all different. It usually happens with Android users. I have read somewhere that Facebook sometimes renders to their users the actual URL when FB shows the post. I mean instead of the widget, Facebook shows the whole page. I am not quite sure about that to be honest.
To solve this problem, I have created and added an jquery script to my page and listened users' scroll event. It worked great. Not seeing too much traffic. But this time the problem is i am counting less users. Even I get 500 users from facebook and Analytics shows similar results, my script adds only 200-300 to MySQL.
Does anyone know a better way to track real traffic? Or do you aware of such problem?
Thanks
It should be filtered on the basis of user agent.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler
how to detect search engine bots with php?
Identifying users through IP is a good idea, but if your IP keeps changing, it's a good idea to use cookies.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.uniqid.php
If the cookie does not exist, you should see it as a new user.
I have found the answer. The problem is called preview (prefetch). Here is the link:
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1514372351922333
Simply, facebook preloads everything when FB shows the thumbnail to the visitor to speed up your page's load speed. They send X-Purpose: preview header. So you can simply check if HTTP_X_PURPOSE header's value is preview or not. If so, do not count it as a visitor.!
Here are more detailed descriptions:
http://inchoo.net/dev-talk/mitigating-facebook-x-fb-http-engine-liger/
http://inchoo.net/dev-talk/magento-website-hammering-facebook-liger/
My client has a Facebook page which has his latest posts and shows the reviews people have added.
I want to grab these from Facebook, and output them on his website all styled up nicely with my own markup and styles.
I have had this running in JavaScript with the access token pasted in the JS which is obviously not the way to go, and the token will expire. Now im trying to do the same with PHP. I've read & watched more clips than I care to mention, and I cant get my head around one particular part. Every demonstration i've read or watched requires the website user to login to facebook before this data is returned.
I cant expect ever user who goes on the site to do that. Am I missing something? I just want get the data and display it. No Adding, No Deleting, No Updating. Just display the same information on his website.
Sorry if am asking something stupid here, i'm a novice and for all my efforts I am struggling to understand. I kind of need it in laymans terms so to speak.
Thanks in advance.
So here is the story, my girl wrote me on my wall and I got the notification but even 3 days later there is no sign of actually reading that wall post. I am obsessed about this because she wrote it from the hospital and it wont be soon that she writes again so I must read what she wrote. The notification has some ids associated with them to see if that helps. Please help me figure it out. Figured out using context id in this form but shows blank. Looks like the post still lives since deleted posts show a clear cut error. https://www.facebook.com/ali.gajani/posts/content_id
Edit: looks like the context id turned out to be my profile id. This is driving me crazy! I want to see that wall post at any cost and I am sure it's an Fb issue because the wall post has not been deleted!
since you are not looking to make a whole application it is likely you can obtain the information you are looking for using the Graph Explorer if you have the ID of the post, it could be relatively simple. if not it could be more difficult. The problem lies in why you can not see it on your wall.
If she changed the permissions on the post, or deleted it you will not be able to see it. Even if she did not delete it, you will not be able to read it if it the applicable permissions are not there. To be brief, if you cant see it now, you likely will not be able to programatically.
Good luck.
Get the read_stream permission in the graph explorer, and you should be able to submit this fql query:
SELECT post_id, message FROM stream WHERE source_id = '<user id>'
This should show the stream stories that have showed up in your stream from the specified source (you could use page/group/user id there). Once you get the post_id, you could just copy-paste it to the graph api part, and see what facebook can tell about that object.
For the user id, you might need to look into the /me/friends relation with the [graph api] part of the explorer.
I am trying to show the comments from my facebook page post on my PHP website. I like the comments to be synced, so where the user enters comments on the facebook post of my page, it will automatically show up on my website. I know how to create the comment box, but it's doesn't pull the comments from the page.
for the comment box I have:
<div class='fb-comments' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.182291248558753.39531.182290545225490&type=1&l=d607ba4dcc' data-num-posts='3' data-width='470'></div>
I am trying to show the comments that were left on my post, but it's not pulling it. I have looked at the graph API but can't figure out which on get the comments and how to get the so called "primary key" for the comments.
I have looked at the following fql:
Stream: but I don't know what the "post_id" is supposed to be. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/stream/
Comment: but I don't know what the "post_id","object_id", or "xid" would be for a post in a page of the an album. I even tried to replace the URL in the example post they had, but it seems like FB FQL can't parse that kinda url. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/comment/
Even when we get a list of comments, I am not sure how the fb:comments plugin can use the stream to populate my page, don't know if it's possible!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You could use Facebook PHP SDK for this which you can get from github. You can then use it to retrieve the comments from the post and store them in a database, updating every now and then to stay current. This will mean less requests to Facebook. When a user posts on your site using your form you can then send the post to Facebook using the SDK.
The problem with this method is that you will need to create an app and users will have to authorise the app for it to be able to post as them. So maybe it's not such a good idea, but I've typed all this in now so I'm not going to delete it.