How to specify location targeting of FB post via Graph API

Question

Some time ago there was a field called targeting in the Post API Reference but now it's gone and I don't know how to add a specific location and language targeting to the post via API. I've search a lot: some results refer to the targeting parameter. I've tried it, but it seems don't working.

I've tried 2 ways to achieve this, but without any success:

$post_details = array('message' => $msg, 'privary' => array('value' => 'CUSTOM', 'description' => array('country' => 'Germany')));
$fb->api('/PAGE_ID/feed', 'POST', $post_details);

and

$post_details = array('message' => $msg, 'targeting' => array('country' => 'Germany'));
$fb->api('/PAGE_ID/feed', 'POST', $post_details);

Please help me understand how can I achieve this?

Answer 1

for targeting, see the privacy property of the post object: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/

The description field may contain a comma-separated lists of valid country, city and language if a Page's post targeting by location/language is specified.

Note: This privacy setting only applies to posts to the current or specified user's own Wall. Facebook ignores this setting for targeted Wall posts (when the user is writing on the Wall of a friend, Page, event, group connected to the user). Consistent with behavior on Facebook, all targeted posts are viewable by anyone who can see the target's Wall.

Answer 2

instead of privacy you also can use feed_targeting

All parameters which you can target like languages,cities,counties are facebook specific. You can resolve them via autocomplete data :

"{'locales':[1001],'countries':[GE],'cities':[825886]}"

Nice feature for automatic posting with targeting but so bad documented in the Facebook documentation...

Answer 3

To make this easier this is the bit you need http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#targeting

this will give the info on how to target cities too. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ads-api/get-autocomplete-data/

a more complete solution from me on this question Geotargeting Page Posts with the Facebook API