Number of likes for a photo or album thru the API

Question

Is it possible to get the number of likes for a photo or album using facebook's API?

This is a link to the open graph for an album

but it doesn't have the number of likes.

on facebook, you can see it has 2475+ likes

thanks

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 14 '11 at 09:44

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For an album you can use the likes connection to get all members who liked that album. So, in your case:

http://graph.facebook.com/99394368305/likes

Notice that that won't return the count. You have to manually go through the results and count the likes. So you should definitely cache the results!

answered Jul 14 '11 at 09:44

Sascha Galley

The first link points to a `page`'s data, not a photo, you might want to update your answer. You need to access `/likes` for a photo too. – Ricardo Tomasi Sep 21 '11 at 21:51

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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Try to use something like this as the URL to fetch what you need:

https://graph.facebook.com/albumID/photos?fields=id,likes.summary(true),comments.summary(true)&access_token=XXXXXX

Here is a post that explains how in detail.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

Community

answered Aug 20 '15 at 01:18

Loïc Joachim

Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, [it would be preferable](//meta.stackoverflow.com/q/8259) to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – Rohit Gupta Aug 20 '15 at 01:38

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