Question

does anyone know if it is possible to ‘like’ a not-facebook link via the Graph API?

For Example, I want to like the link

https://stackoverflow.com/

via my app.

Do I have to post this link and ‘like’ my post afterwards or is there also a direct way?

I’m thankful for any answer that helps! 🙂

Thanks!

Answer 1

The graph api does allow you to like a graph object (see Graph API Docs / Publishing) using:

https://graph.facebook.com/OBJECT_ID/likes

However the graph object must have an existing likes connection – and there’s currently no way of creating such a connection via the graph api.

But if the like connection already exists you can get the pages graph object id using FQL:

SELECT id FROM object_url WHERE url='http://youtargeturl.lnk'