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Asked: 2026-06-08T21:03:16+00:00

I’m trying to fetch all comments for a particular Facebook post via the FB

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I’m trying to fetch all comments for a particular Facebook post via the FB Graph API.

The call for the post itself:

graph.facebook.com/129047777209815_279367092177882/?access_token=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

yields that there are 5278 comments.

Querying for the comments with offset=900, limit=100:

https://graph.facebook.com/129047777209815_279367092177882/comments?limit=100&offset=900&value=1&base_amount=1&access_token=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&__after_id=129047777209815_279367092177882_1122143

yields

"paging": {
"next": "https://graph.facebook.com/129047777209815_279367092177882/comments?limit=100&offset=1000&value=1&base_amount=1&access_token=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&__after_id=129047777209815_279367092177882_1122270"}

Yet querying

graph.facebook.com/129047777209815_279367092177882/comments?limit=100&offset=1000&value=1&base_amount=1&access_token=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX|XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&__after_id=129047777209815_279367092177882_1122270

doesn’t give me any comments at all.
It’s not just this post, I’ve noticed consistently that I can never retrieve more than 999 comments.
Can anyone tell me how to get more than 999 comments? Is this a Facebook limit? I can’t find it in the docs.

Thanks,
Paul

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  1. Editorial Team

    Why are you using the __after_id token?
    The following seems to work perfectly in the Graph API Explorer.

    129047777209815_279367092177882/comments?limit=100&offset=5277&value=1&base_amount=1

    The above retrieves the 5278th comment. Try it out in the Graph API Explorer.

    The limit of 999 might apply to the __after_id parameter. It doesn’t seem to be well-documented. (Related Bug)

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