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I want to read how many people have seen my post in my facebook page using restfb in java


Using the code below I was able to read how many reactions (in detailed) my posts in my Facebook page have received. https://restfb.com/cookbook/ Now I need to read how many people have seen the posts specially I need to limit the date. For example: how many people have seen my post with the id x, yesterday? I do not need list of people, just how many people have seen and also how many people have clicked to open in case there was a picture. Based on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/post/seen/ I wrote the code below: My code :

int postNumber=0
 Connection<Post> results = fbclient.fetchConnection(pageID + "/feed", Post.class);
           for(List<Post> mypage: results) {
            for(Post posted: mypage) {
              postNumber++;
              String postID=posted.getId();
              Post hasSeen=fbclient.fetchObject(postID+"/seen",Post.class, Parameter.with("fields", 
               "seen_time, total_count"));
                System.out.println("post number "+ postNumber+ "has been seen by "+ hasSeen);
        }}

The error is :

Received Facebook error response of type OAuthException: (#100) Tried accessing nonexisting field (seen) on node type (PagePost) (code 100, subcode null) 'null - null'
    at com.restfb.exception.generator.DefaultFacebookExceptionGenerator$DefaultGraphFacebookExceptionMapper.exceptionForTypeAndMessage(DefaultFacebookExceptionGenerator.java:174)
    at com.restfb.exception.generator.DefaultFacebookExceptionGenerator.throwFacebookResponseStatusExceptionIfNecessary(DefaultFacebookExceptionGenerator.java:61)
    at com.restfb.DefaultFacebookClient.makeRequestAndProcessResponse(DefaultFacebookClient.java:794)
    at com.restfb.DefaultFacebookClient.makeRequest(DefaultFacebookClient.java:721)
    at com.restfb.DefaultFacebookClient.makeRequest(DefaultFacebookClient.java:683)
    at com.restfb.DefaultFacebookClient.fetchObject(DefaultFacebookClient.java:276)

Thanks a million in advance


Solution

  •     String accessTokenFB= "write your access token";
             //System.out.println("accessTokenFB is "+ accessTokenFB);
            FacebookClient fbclient=new DefaultFacebookClient(accessTokenFB, Version.VERSION_7_0);
            String postID="write your facebook post id";
            JsonObject jObj=fbclient.fetchObject(postID + "/insights", JsonObject.class,Parameter.with("metric", "post_clicks, post_impressions"));
            //System.out.println(jObj);
            JsonValue data=jObj.get("data");
    //      System.out.println(data);
            JsonValue post_clicks=((JsonObject) ( (JsonArray) data).get(0)).get("name");
            System.out.println(post_clicks.asString()); 
            JsonValue valueClick= ((JsonObject) ((JsonArray) ((JsonObject) ((JsonArray) data).get(0)).get("values")).get(0)).get("value");
            System.out.println(valueClick.asInt()); 
            
            JsonValue post_impressions=((JsonObject) ( (JsonArray) data).get(1)).get("name");
            System.out.println(post_impressions.asString());
            JsonValue valueImpressions= ((JsonObject) ((JsonArray) ((JsonObject) ((JsonArray) data).get(1)).get("values")).get(0)).get("value");
            System.out.println(valueImpressions.asInt());