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i.dragutinovic
i.dragutinovic

Reputation: 15

Facebook-Graph-API get post by post id

I'm having problem fetching post by post id using Graph API. In Graph API reference (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/) it says that:

Querying without the read_stream permission will return only the public view of the data (i.e. data that can be see when the user is logged out).

I'm able to open https://www.facebook.com/franzee/posts/10151947780174121 without logging in to Facebook, but when I try to access this post using Graph API or Graph API Explorer I get the following error

{
    "error": {
        "message": "Unsupported get request.", 
        "type": "GraphMethodException", 
        "code": 100
    }
}

I am using valid token and Graph API call, and I'm getting results when fetching single posts from group or public page. Why is then error message returned when I try to fetch post by post id even though the post is visible when I'm logged out?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 10260

Answers (1)

Igy
Igy

Reputation: 43816

You can't access a user's posts without a user access token from a user who can see the posts - even if a post is marked as 'Public', that means Public to Facebook users, not completely public via the web and API - You still need to provide the access token of the Facebook user you're fetching the posts on behalf of

Upvotes: 5

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