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Emil Borconi
Emil Borconi

Reputation: 3467

Facebook Graph API insights

I'm new on working with Facebook and honestly I found it very confusing, terminology and documentation seems to be very ambiguous in many cases. Can somebody please help me out with a plain english explanation on how I can achive the following?

Till now I have managed to:

1) Create an app

2) Post the image on the user page with the desired message

I'm not able to understand how I can retrieve information about the particular image which was uploaded through my app. I want to know how many people have viewed that image, how many likes did it get, how many times it was re-shared.

Is it possible at all?

I'm posting to /photo not too /feed and I will like to keep it this way if it is possible.

Sorry if this was answered already but I spent a few hours trying to find an appropriate answer but wasn't able to get the right documentation.

UPDATE 1

After having a couple of days off from this topic and receiving the first 2 answers, I took another dive into this. Now I have tried the Graph API Explorer as suggested, and using the ID of a POST I can get some details about the POST, but the insights aren't showing anything, just next and previous.

My goal is to be able to gatther some stats about the pictures uploaded through the app. If this is not possible directly what should be the approach I need to take?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 2370

Answers (2)

nthall
nthall

Reputation: 2915

I don't believe a personal /photo has /insights attached to it - the Insights Object documentation page suggests that they do not - but you should be able to get likes, shares, and comments via the API.

It would appear FB has launched a redesign/reorganization of its documentation in the last couple of weeks, but the documentation for the /photo graph object is here -- you will need the user's Access Token, and the API endpoints you're looking for each have links to their own documentation pages there, including example code for each type of request.

Edit (summarizing discussion in comments):

There is no method via the Facebook API to gather insights for all photos posted to individual user timelines via an app. The app can gather likes, shares, and comments for each of those objects individually via API requests, and can make API requests for insights for photos posted to its own timeline. Neither of those options solves the intended use case here.

I'd recommend a solution that uses Sharing rather than an app integration, as this allows for better access to insights on the photos being shared. This is also a much simpler integration, and less brittle wrt future Platform changes. The main tradeoff is that the original photos being shared are expected to expire after a couple of months -- if this is unavoidable, I'd suggest implementing a redirect for requests for expired objects on the site.

Upvotes: 5

pRaNaY
pRaNaY

Reputation: 25320

We are able to get different kind of photos or picture Using Graph API like as below:

1.Page Photos

Photos for a Facebook Page.A Page Access Token is required for all methods.Find here

2.Page Picture

Picture belonging to a Facebook Page. Find here

3.Photo

Represents an individual photo on Facebook. Find here

4.User Photos

Photos for a person.Find here

I hope it's helps you.

Upvotes: 2

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