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David Lemarier
David Lemarier

Reputation: 11

How to get view count for Facebook post

I use FB Graph API (PHP)

I submit a new post with:

$check = $facebook->api('/me/feed/','post',$val);

I got the post ID with $check['id']

I can get the like count with: http://graph.facebook.com/THE_ID

But if i want to grab the VIEW count of this post ...

How I can dot this ?

THANKS !

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9500

Answers (4)

Max Sheng
Max Sheng

Reputation: 11

according to fb insights api (v2.8) you can get post impressions

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.9/insights#availmetrics

the metric you want is "post_impressions" or "post_impressions_unique"

this is how you make the call

GET v2.8/{post_id}/insights/post_impressions HTTP/1.1 Host: graph.facebook.com

Upvotes: 0

Paulo Henrique
Paulo Henrique

Reputation: 499

I guess this is a bit old :) but I hope someome finds this answer as I found elsewhere (not here).

You can retrieve page posts data, using this syntax:

{post-id}/insights/post_impressions_viral?fields=id,name,values&period=day

I don't think Facebook can measure 'real views' of a specific page (since it is shown in users' feed and they can sweep up on his phone quickly not really 'seeing' it, for example). I think post impressions are anyway a good measure to analyze.

Best regards,

Upvotes: 1

Dan
Dan

Reputation: 5637

I don't think you can get the number of views of a status update. They only offer view count data for apps and pages via the Insight API: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/insights/#Metrics

Upvotes: 2

Ken Wheeler
Ken Wheeler

Reputation: 1958

You can't. To the best of my knowledge, the FB Graph API doesn't publicly expose post view counts.

Upvotes: 3

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