Question

Looking at the bottom of this page it would appear that it is possible to get facebook data on where likes are coming from for a particular page. Unfortunately I can’t figure out how to do this.

Ideally I would like a method that doesn’t use fql something like:

https://graph.facebook.com/PAGE_ID/insights/SOURCE_NAME?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

But if that’s not possible I would at least think it is possible to do through fql using something like:

https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=SELECT metric, value FROM insights WHERE object_id=PAGE_ID AND metric='SOURCE_NAME' AND period = period('month')&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

but this just returns the xml with the error message Invalid metric name: SOURCE_NAME for whatever source name I’m trying to use.

What is the proper way to access this data? Or is facebook just trying to tease me?

Answer 1

The query I was looking for was something like

https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=SELECT metric, value FROM insights WHERE object_id=OBJECT_ID AND metric='page_fans_by_like_source' AND end_time=end_time_date('YYYY-MM-DD') AND period=period('month')&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN