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gabrjan
gabrjan

Reputation: 3049

Facebook can't get video likes count

I'm trying to get number of likes on videos. So I go like https://graph.facebook.com/v4.0/{video_id}/likes?access_token={token}.

However I always get back empty data even if video has at least some likes.

I've created a token with following permissions: scope="public_profile,email,user_videos,manage_pages,user_likes".

The last thing to mention is that the video is posted by user page. I've also tested the same thing on Graph API Explorer and it doesn't even work there.

I for example can get comments on the same video...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 79

Answers (1)

misorude
misorude

Reputation: 3431

The individual likes are likely not available to your app due to privacy concerns (the liking user would probably have to grant your app access to access their made likes first)

But since you are only interested in the overall number, asking for the summary should do it:

/{video_id}/likes?summary=1

or when using field expansion syntax,

/{video_id}?fields=likes.summary(1)

Upvotes: 3

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