Question

I developed a custom app to upload videos that will be used in a contest, the video with the most likes wins. Is there a way to keep track of these likes without further user intervention? I mean, the user uploads the video now, with a “like counter” thing, and the day the contest ends, I just query the most liked (o three most liked) video(s). Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

You can get the likes for all the videos with FQL, then get the counts in your app code:

SELECT object_id FROM like WHERE object_id IN (YOUR, VIDEO, IDS)

Or if you have the post_ids instead of the video object_ids:

SELECT post_id FROM like WHERE post_id IN (YOUR, POST, IDS)