RestFB: How to get page likes?

Question

I'm trying to retrieve the number of likes a facebook page has. Here's my code:

FacebookClient fb= new DefaultFacebookClient(tok, appSecret);
    Page page = fb.fetchObject("178697151159", Page.class, Parameter.with("likes", "true"));
    System.out.println("My pages likes: " + page.getLikes());

but, its giving null as output. I'm new to restFB. So please help me in getting this.

Thank you.

Answer 1

try this:

FacebookClient client = new DefaultFacebookClient(token, Version.VERSION_2_6);
Page page = client.fetchObject("178697151159", Page.class, Parameter.with("fields","fan_count"));
System.out.println("My page likes: " + page.getFanCount());

You have to tell Facebook which fields (fan_count) you need and you should use the newest API (2.6).

Then the rest is very easy :)