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rc225225
New Member
10 years ago

Getting Facebook likes, comments and shares count

Hi all,    I work in media and was wondering how I would be able to import Facebook data and be able to get the likes, comments and shares count for individual page posts.    Have also tried this...
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djnww
Impactful Individual
10 years ago

Hi rc225225,

 

I was actually analysing facebook data from our company site when I read your post :)

 

1. Within PowerBI Desktop, click on Get Data

2. Scroll down and select 'Facebook'

3. A message will pop up warning you that you will access a 3rd party site. Just click on 'continue'

4. For the username, enter the name of the Facebook Page. For instance, Microsoft's Facebook page is 'www.facebook.com/Microsoft'. The name in this instance is 'Microsoft'

5. Under connection, select 'Posts'.

6. You will be asked to enter your credentials, which is your actual Facebook login details.

 

I was analysing comments and posts. I'm not sure if Likes are available.

 

Cheers,

Daniel

 

 

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rc225225
New Member
10 years ago

Thanks for your help - what I was looking for is not necessarily the posts, but just the data. 

 

eg. Post 1 may have 100 likes, 25 shares and 56 comments. 

 

I would then take the total of these and divide it by a certain percentage of the fanbase to get an overall feel for how competitor content performs.