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rc225225
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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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rc225225
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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. 

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itchyeyeballs
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10 years ago

Following the tutorial here - https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-desktop-tutorial-facebook-analytics/

 

I can only figure out how to pick up likes or comments from a single specified entity (all comments made by one user for example), there doesn't seem to be a way to pick up all likes on specific pages or posts.

 

I've probably missed something but It looks like you will have to manually utilise the insights element of the graph API - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.5/insights or purchase a third party solution