Question

Facebook supports getting the number of comments on each url by using the following:

<fb:comments-count data-href="http://example-url.com"/></fb:comments-count>

The problem with this method is that it’s working on the user-side and thus the result cannot be stored into SQL.

I’m looking for a method which can run server-side, able to be executed by CRON.

Answer 1

This can be easily achieved with simple FQL query:

SELECT commentsbox_count FROM link_stat WHERE url = "http://example-url.com"

To get this with Graph API use:

http://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=YOUR_QUERY