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JavaScript

Posted by Alcibiades Montas
Alcibiades Montas
5,974 Points

How to use the facebook API to calculate an individual's number of messages/wall posts/etc?

Hi I am trying to build an app that uses the facebook API, to quantify an individual's usage of facebook (how many wall posts, messages, pics, etc). I am starting to read the SDK but feel lost as it doesn't seem like it uses JSON for its objects.

Anybody familiar on whether I could query these sort of objects and then bring them on to my app? Any tutorials would be helpful?

1 Answer

Austin Knight
Austin Knight
2,251 Points

You can find the calls here under the JavaScriptSDK tab https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0/user/feed

In order to use the javascript SDK for those types of queries, you have to make sure you have valid login first with the right permissions accepted by the user.

I'm not sure how much access you get to everything with the JS SDK though, but you can definitely pull posts and count them.

I would also take a look at the reference for all the JS SDK API endpoints. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.0

Your calls will looks something like:

/* make the API call */
FB.api(
    "/me/feed",
    function (response) {
      if (response && !response.error) {
        /* handle the result */
      }
    }
);

Hope that helps a little