Facebook iOS SDK : get likes of an object silently

Question

does anyone know how to get the Facebook Open Graph object (FBGraphObject) from an url without forcing user to log to his facebook account, i.e having to open a FBSession.

A little explanation: I have this url for instance: http://www.marmiton.org/recettes/recette_crepes-suzettes_12203.aspx (really good french recipe) and by calling:

[FBRequestConnection startWithGraphPath:theURL]
                             parameters:nil
                             HTTPMethod:@"GET"
                      completionHandler:^(FBRequestConnection *connection, id result, NSError *error) {}];

I have the following result:

{
  "og_object": {
    "id": "", 
    "description": "", 
    "title": "", 
    "type": "", 
    "updated_time": "2014-10-17T12:30:23+0000", 
    "url": "http://www.marmiton.org/recettes/recette_crepes-suzettes_12203.aspx"
  }, 
  "share": {
    "comment_count": 0, 
    "share_count": 64
  }, 
  "id": "http://www.marmiton.org/recettes/recette_crepes-suzettes_12203.aspx"
}

And from this I grab the share_count values. What I am looking for.

BUT if the FBSession activeSession is not open (nor any session) the SDK gives me this:

FBSDKLog: Error for request to endpoint 'http://www.marmiton.org/recettes/recette_pate-a-crepes-simple_27121.aspx': An open FBSession must be specified for calls to this endpoint.

I don't need/want to have my users logged in to get the likes (share_count).

Does anyone know how to make this request silently, i.e without having to start user session?

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Finally I found that hidden api call: @"https://api.facebook.com/method/links.getStats?urls=%@&format=json" This returns all the usefull info on a given FB object url.