This is a method uses to get Facebook information such as total comments, comment count, total likes, like count, total shares, share count, total count, click count, comment box count of one or more links (URLs) that are shared on Facebook or integrated with Facebook.
It’s useful when you want to store those information into database in order for users be able to sort or filter your entries by most Facebook comments, shares, likes, clicks, etc.
Get Facebook Total Comments, Total Likes, Total Shares
Simple run this URL on your browser, no permission required.
http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls=_url_ |
Let’s replace _url_ with your URL. For example, if you want to get share statistic of this url: http://4rapiddev.com/facebook-graph-api/get-or-find-facebook-profile-id-number/, you will need to run this:
http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls=http%3A%2F%2F4rapiddev.com%2Ffacebook-graph-api%2Fget-or-find-facebook-profile-id-number%2F |
Or click here to view the result.
Note: you will need to Encode the URL to ensure it works properly. Run the Online URL Encode Tool to encode your URL before trying.
Example of the result:
<links_getStats_response xsi:schemaLocation="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/ http://api.facebook.com/1.0/facebook.xsd" list="true"> <link_stat> <url>http://4rapiddev.com/facebook-graph-api/get-or-find-facebook-profile-id-number/</url> <normalized_url>http://www.4rapiddev.com/facebook-graph-api/get-or-find-facebook-profile-id-number/</normalized_url> <share_count>28</share_count> <like_count>14</like_count> <comment_count>1</comment_count> <total_count>43</total_count> <click_count>0</click_count> <comments_fbid>10150600093930621</comments_fbid> <commentsbox_count>0</commentsbox_count> </link_stat> </links_getStats_response> |
Note: you can also get total comments, comment count, total likes, like count, total shares, share count, total count, click count, comment box count of the list of URL separated by comma (,).
For example:
http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls=http%3A%2F%2F4rapiddev.com%2Ffacebook-graph-api%2Fget-or-find-facebook-profile-id-number%2F,http%3A%2F%2F4rapiddev.com%2Fsql-server%2Fdelete-shrink-eliminate-transaction-log-ldf-file%2F |
Click here to get the result.
Example of the output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <links_getStats_response xmlns="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/ http://api.facebook.com/1.0/facebook.xsd" list="true"> <link_stat> <url>http://4rapiddev.com/facebook-graph-api/get-or-find-facebook-profile-id-number/</url> <normalized_url>http://www.4rapiddev.com/facebook-graph-api/get-or-find-facebook-profile-id-number/</normalized_url> <share_count>28</share_count> <like_count>14</like_count> <comment_count>1</comment_count> <total_count>43</total_count> <click_count>0</click_count> <comments_fbid>10150600093930621</comments_fbid> <commentsbox_count>0</commentsbox_count> </link_stat> <link_stat> <url>http://4rapiddev.com/sql-server/delete-shrink-eliminate-transaction-log-ldf-file/</url> <normalized_url>http://www.4rapiddev.com/sql-server/delete-shrink-eliminate-transaction-log-ldf-file/</normalized_url> <share_count>2</share_count> <like_count>2</like_count> <comment_count>0</comment_count> <total_count>4</total_count> <click_count>0</click_count> <comments_fbid>10150211909918385</comments_fbid> <commentsbox_count>0</commentsbox_count> </link_stat> </links_getStats_response> |
