Getting the Facebook like share count for a given URL

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I m using the Facebook API to get the like share count for given URLs  The strange thing is that it seems to be quite inconsistent in returning results  For example  this page returns results    https   api facebook com method fql query query select 20total count like count comment count share count click count 20from 20link stat 20where 20url  http   www groupon com deals seattlehelitourscom-by-classic-helicopter-corp  format json   Whereas  this one does not    https   api facebook com method fql query query select 20total count like count comment count share count click count 20from 20link stat 20where 20url  http   www livingsocial com deals 278194-sunset-kayaking-hot-chowder  format json   The second page clearly has a share count on it  and when I inspect the HTML of the page  the URL which is being used to share is the one I ve placed into the API request above  However  the API does not respond with any count information for either number of likes or shares   Any clues on why the API might be responding for some URLs but not for others

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Use the open graph API   Here is a live example querying how many likes  Coca Cola  has   https   developers facebook com tools explorer  method GET amp path cocacola 3Ffields 3Dlikes  Which boils down to   https   graph facebook com cocacola fields likes   Which you could do in an AJAX GET  The result is        likes   71717854      id    40796308305

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use below URL and replace myurl with your post url and you will get all the things  http   api facebook com restserver php method links getStats amp urls myurl  but keep in mind it will give you response in XML format only  Example     lt share count gt 1 lt  share count gt   lt like count gt 8 lt  like count gt   lt comment count gt 0 lt  comment count gt   lt total count gt 9 lt  total count gt   lt click count gt 0 lt  click count gt   lt comments fbid gt                lt  comments fbid gt   lt commentsbox count gt 0 lt  commentsbox count gt

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As of August 8th  2016  FQLs are deprecated     Update 10 2017  v2 10    Here s a non-deprecated way to get a given URL s like and share count  no access token required       https   graph facebook com  fields og object likes summary total count  limit 0   share amp id https   www stackoverflow com     Result         og object            likes               data                            summary                  total count   83                            id    10151023731873397            share            comment count   0         share count   2915           id    https   www stackoverflow com        JQuery Example     get  https   graph facebook com           fields og object likes summary total count  limit 0   share amp id         url-goes-here      function  data            if  data                var like count   data og object likes summary total count              var share count   data share share count                        Reference   https   developers facebook com docs graph-api reference url

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You Can Show Facebook Share Like Count Like This    Tested and Verified    url   http   www yourdomainname com    You can use inner pages   rest url    http   api facebook com restserver php format json amp method links getStats amp urls   urlencode  url     json   json decode file get contents  rest url  true     echo Facebook Shares      json 0  share count    echo Facebook Likes      json 0  like count    echo Facebook Comments      json 0  comment count

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I don t think Facebook s Open Graph Object i e   og object  provides anything more than comment count  amp  share count for a URL  Try this  replace  YOUR URL with the URL and  ACCESS TOKEN with your access token in the below link https   graph facebook com v2 5  YOUR URL access token  ACCESS TOKEN  For example   https   graph facebook com v2 5 http   espn go com nfl story   id 14424066 handing-holiday-gifts-all-32-nfl-teams-nfl access token  ACCESS TOKEN      og object        id   956517601094822       description   Naughty or nice  every NFL team deserves something for Christmas  So in lieu of Santa Claus  Bill Barnwell is here to distribute some gifts        title   Barnwell  Handing out holiday gifts to all 32 teams       type   article       updated time   2015-12-23T17 20 55 0000       url   http   espn go com nfl story   id 14424066         share        comment count  0      share count  354        id   http   espn go com nfl story   id 14424066 handing-holiday-gifts-all-32-nfl-teams-nfl      Also  if you try to get likes  you would get the following error https   graph facebook com http   rottentomatoes com fields likes amp summary 1 amp access token  ACCESS TOKEN      error        message     100  Tried accessing nonexisting field  likes  on node type  URL        type   OAuthException       code  100      fbtrace id   H KksDn mCf

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Your question is quite old and Facebook has depreciated FQL now but what you want can still be done using this utility  Facebook Analytics  However you will find that if you want details about who is liking or commenting it will take a long time to get  This is because Facebook only gives a very small chunk of data at a time and a lot of paging is required in order to get everything

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For latest 2 1 Graph API  an example to get likes for imdb com will be  Using this to get the id https   developers facebook com tools explorer  method GET amp path  3Fid 3Dhttp 253A 252F 252Fwww imdb com 3Ffields 3Dlikes amp version v2 1   and then get the likes  https   developers facebook com tools explorer  method GET amp path 414652589771 2Flikes amp version v2 1  Document  URL   id  url   Represents an external URL as it relates to the Facebook social graph - shares and comments from the URL on Facebook  and any Open Graph objects associated with the URL    Reference http   harshtechtalk com how-get-likes-count-posts-comments-facebook-graph-api

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UPDATE  This solution is no longer valid  FQLs are deprecated since August 7th  2016     https   api facebook com method fql query query select 20 20like count 20from 20link stat 20where 20url  22http   www techlila com 22  Also http   api facebook com restserver php method links getStats amp urls http   www techlila com will show you all the data like  Share Count    Like Count  and  Comment Count  and total of all these   Change the URL  i e  http   www techlila com  as per your need   This is the correct URL  I m getting right results   EDIT  May 2017   as of v2 9 you can make a graph API call where ID is the URL and select the  engagement  field  below is a link with the example from the graph explorer   https   developers facebook com tools explorer  method GET amp path  3Fid 3Dhttp 3A 2F 2Fcomunidade edp pt 26fields 3Dengagement amp version v2 9

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For graph API v2 1  you can get the like count using 1 call only and  therefore  no need to go through the paging    For example  to get the number of likes of http   www imdb com  https   graph facebook com 414652589771 likes summary 1  Graph API Explorer https   developers facebook com tools explorer  method GET amp path 414652589771 2Flikes 3Fsummary 3D1 amp version v2 1  It is somehow not documented  at least at the moment I submit this answer      I found the answer in https   stackoverflow com a 18198957 1822624

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You need the extended permission  read stream   then you need to call the Facebook API endpoint  and add likes shares to your fields   This call   https   developers facebook com tools explorer method GET amp path me feed fields likes shares   will return a data array like this         data                 likes              data                                            name    name of user who liked status                        id    id of user who liked status                                                  count   number of likes               shares            count   number of shares                 id    post id         created time    post creation time

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Facebook Graph is awesome  Just do something like below  I ve entereted perl org URL  you can put any URL there   https   graph facebook com fql q SELECT 20like count  20total count  20share count  20click count  20comment count 20FROM 20link stat 20WHERE 20url 20  20 27http   perl org 27

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All previous answers have since been deprecated  This method works as of Aug 2016      To get the like count of any URL   GET request  https   graph facebook com  url  access token  access token   Then grab shares- share count from the returned JSON object     Fan count for a Facebook page    GET request  https   graph facebook com  url   fields fan count amp access token  access token   Then grab the  fan count  field from the returned JSON object      You can test this out and get your access token using the Graph API Explorer

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I see this nice tutorial on how to get the like count from facebook using PHP   public static function get the fb like   url           pageURL    http   nextopics com      url     url            pageURL    url     setting a value in  url variable    params    select comment count  share count  like count from link stat where url       url        component   urlencode   params      url    http   graph facebook com fql q    component    fbLIkeAndSahre   json decode   this- gt file get content curl   url         getFbStatus    fbLIkeAndSahre- gt data  0     return  getFbStatus- gt like count      here is a sample code   I don t know how to paste the code with correct format in here  so just kindly visit this link for better view of the code    Creating a Custom Facebook like Counter

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