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Number of likes for a photo or album thru the API

Is it possible to get the number of likes for a photo or album using facebook's API?

This is a link to the open graph for an album

http://graph.facebook.com/99394368305

but it doesn't have the number of likes.

on facebook, you can see it has 2475+ likes

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.99394368305.88399.40796308305

thanks

Solution

  • To get the likes for a photo is easy, as you can see in the API Reference:
    http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&path=20531316728

    For an album you can use the likes connection to get all members who liked that album. So, in your case: 

    http://graph.facebook.com/99394368305/likes

    Notice that that won't return the count. You have to manually go through the results and count the likes. So you should definitely cache the results!