Question

So my goal was seemingly simple get the number of wall posts for the day. I was using the graph API insights/page_wall_posts until I realized the counts were not correct. Is there a better stat to use? I did see in the FQL documentation that page_wall_post is depreciated but it failed to say if it was replaced with something else.

My questions are:

1. How can I get the count of all wall posts for a day?
2. Similarly how can I get total comments on the wall for the day?

I have code that parses the results, but when I was testing yesterday using the graph explorer I saw that the data coming back was no where close to the actually activity on Facebook.

Answer 1

So the answer to my question is the next best way to get this data is by using:

insights/page_stories_by_story_type . It will return something like:

"data": [
{
  "id": "<THE ID>/insights/page_stories_by_story_type/day", 
  "name": "page_stories_by_story_type", 
  "period": "day", 
  "values": [
    {
      "value": {
        "fan": 10, 
        "page post": 8, 
        "user post": 3, 
        "checkin": 1
      }, 
      "end_time": "2012-02-05T08:00:00+0000"
    }, 

The page_post value will include post+comments. Which is the best I could find using insight data.