Getting Facebook Like count - php

Question

I have integrated Facebook Like into my website.Now i need to get/list the count of the Facebook like in the Admin panel of my website. Is there any way to get this done?Need suggestions.Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

$url = 'http://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_OR_APP_ID';
echo '['.$url.']: '.json_decode(file_get_contents($url))->{'likes'};

Answer 2

In order to get the number of likes of any object using Facebook API, use a Facebook API of your choice and commands like this:
https://graph.facebook.com/< your object id>/
You will receive a JSON object and you can extract the number of likes from it:
{
"id": "567454",
"link": "http://www.facebook.com/pages/PHP-Developer/103146756409401",
"likes": 250,
"type": "page"
}
More info on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
The more direct / updated link for this topic on facebook is
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/

Answer 3

function fbLikeCount($appid,$appsecret){
//Construct a Facebook URL
$json_url ='https://graph.facebook.com/'.$appid.'?access_token='.$appsecret;
$json = file_get_contents($json_url);
$json_output = json_decode($json);
//Extract the likes count from the JSON object
if($json_output->likes){
return $likes = $json_output->likes;
}else{
return 0;
}
}
Facebook - <?php echo fbLikeCount('app/page id here','token here'); ?>

Answer 4

You can achieve that using the Graph API (v3)
function checkFacebookReactions($url){
$access_token = 'YOUR-FACEBOOK-TOKEN'; // Generate a Facebook Token first
$api_url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/v3.0/?id=' . urlencode( $url ) . '&fields=engagement&access_token=' . $access_token;
$fb_connect = curl_init(); // initializing
curl_setopt( $fb_connect, CURLOPT_URL, $api_url );
curl_setopt( $fb_connect, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 ); // return the result, do not print
curl_setopt( $fb_connect, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20 );
$json_return = curl_exec( $fb_connect ); // connect and get json data
curl_close( $fb_connect ); // close connection
$body = json_decode( $json_return );
// Print each key values, if needed
foreach($body->engagement as $k=>$v){
echo $k .": " .$v ."<br>";
}
$count = $body->engagement->reaction_count; // Return only reactions (likes + other reactions)
return $count;
}
$url = "REPLACE-WITH-YOUR-URL"; // The url you want to fetch details from
checkFacebookReactions($url);
First, you will need to generate a Facebook token. You can fin plenty of resources that explain how to get a token. This one will do the trick: https://elfsight.com/blog/2017/10/how-to-get-facebook-access-token