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FQL query for comments_fbid suddenly returns null

I've been using the following code for quite a while now to retrieve my comment + comment reply count total via Facebook FQL. However, today it just stopped working and is now returning an empty array. I think I've traced to to the fact that FB is not returning a comments_fbid for the given URL.

select time, is_private from comment where is_private = 0 and object_id in 
(select comments_fbid from link_stat where url ='MY_URL') or 
is_private = 0 and object_id in (select post_fbid from comment where object_id 
in (select comments_fbid from link_stat where url ='MY_URL'))

This request usually would return an object with a length equal to that of the total comment count.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Solution

  • its a bug. comments_fbid returns NULL even though there are comments on this particular URL.

    Track it here: http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/317008698404331