Facebook graph api comment count

Question

seems Facebook changed the result of posts, few weeks ago it was possible to read the comment count from the post directly

https://graph.facebook.com/125909647492772_502

Answer 1

If you'd like to count everything on Facebook. (That number is visible for Facebook's User)

You should use FQL (Facebook Query Language) instead of Graph API.

Facebook Query Language Reference

This situation you should to query

SELECT comment_info FROM stream WHERE post_id = ...

Answer 2

I was having same problem, just adding likes.summary(true),comments.summary(true) in parameter in against "fields" worked for me.

e.g. I used https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN&fields=story,from,story_tags,likes.summary(true),comments.summary(true)

instead of https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

Also you can add other parameters if you want; separated by a ,

Answer 3

summary=true is what you are looking for

Get likes count :

114916098537132_1265715836790480/likes?summary=true

Get comments count

114916098537132_1265715836790480/comments?summary=true

Get shares count :

114916098537132_1265715836790480?fields=shares

And last [ combining all 3 ]

114916098537132_1265715836790480?fields=shares,likes.summary(true),comments.summary(true)

Improved version ( add limit(0) to removes list of likes and get only summary ):

114916098537132_1265715836790480?fields=shares,likes.limit(0).summary(true),comments.limit(0).summary(true)

Answer 4

Or to make less changes to you excisting code, use:

    $.each(json.data,function(i,fb){
    ...
       var commentsCount = 0
       if(fb.comments!=undefined){
          commentsCount=fb.comments.data.length
       }
    ...
    }

commentsCount holds number of comments for active child

Answer 5

Try the following:

{
    "data": [
        {
            "id": "447235535389660_1226199",
            "from": {
                "name": "Harjeet Walia",
                "id": "100004980601083"
            },
            "message": "Price",
            "can_remove": false,
            "created_time": "2013-09-06T10:39:01+0000",
            "like_count": 0,
            "user_likes": false
        },
        {
            "id": "447235535389660_1226152",
            "from": {
                "name": "Shoba Dhyani Jakhmola",
                "id": "100000906896060"
            },
            "message": "baap re kitna mehnga !",
            "can_remove": false,
            "created_time": "2013-09-06T10:05:09+0000",
            "like_count": 0,
            "user_likes": false
        }
    ],
    "paging": {
        "cursors": {
            "after": "MQ==",
            "before": "NA=="
        }
    }
}

then

int commentCount = <JsonNode Var with above data>.path("comments").path("data").size();

Here commentCount will give the number of comments.

Answer 6

To get the count, add ?summary=1 at the end: https://graph.facebook.com/125909647492772_502974003098530/comments?summary=1