CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user1011332
user1011332

Reputation: 773

How to see/get all wall posts of a specific Public Figure

I am trying to get the posts of a specific public person.

I noticed that it is possible to do get the posts of a specific page through the FB API through the Graph Developer page i.e:

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer?method=GET&path=EuropeanCommission%2Fposts&version=v2.5

Those are the posts for the European Commission.

How do I do something similar for a specific person i.e: https://www.facebook.com/zuck

Upvotes: 0

Views: 121

Answers (1)

andyrandy
andyrandy

Reputation: 73984

You can only get the posts of a user profile by authorizing that specific user with the user_posts permission. Just because some posts are public does not mean you can get them with the API, the user has to authorize it specifically. I assume it´s because the user should always know what an App may do with his posts, if you could just grab public posts of any user, the user would never know.

It´s different for Pages, because they are public by definition - unless they are restricted by age or location, of course.

Upvotes: 1

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