Is there a way to see the number of Facebook shares a URL has gotten over time?
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Is there a way to see the number of Facebook shares a URL has gotten over time? You can get share_count for a given URL using the graph API, but it doesn't give you the number of shares over a specified time period (e.g. a specific day). Is there a way to get this information? I'm also interested in any way to get the number of "shares" over time on other social media platforms, including twitter (i.e. "retweets"). Time granularity must at least go down to the day, but a finer granularity (e.g. down to the hour) works too. Thanks in advance!
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Is there a way to see the number of Facebook shares a URL has gotten over time? You can get share_count for a given URL using the graph API, but it doesn't give you the number of shares over a specified time period (e.g. a specific day). Is there a way to get this information? I'm also interested in any way to get the number of "shares" over time on other social media platforms, including twitter (i.e. "retweets"). Time granularity must at least go down to the day, but a finer granularity (e.g. down to the hour) works too. Thanks in advance!
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asked Nov 11 at 22:24
Jake Burchard
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did you check out the page insights api already? i know it´s possible with insights.
– luschn
Nov 12 at 8:18
Can you be more specific? I looked into it i'm not sure how to use insights since it only seems to be available given a page-id or post-id, neither of which I have in this case. I only have a URL
– Jake Burchard
Nov 13 at 3:16
it´s not possible for an url, only for pages.
– luschn
Nov 13 at 8:16
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Is there a way to see the number of Facebook shares a URL has gotten over time? You can get share_count for a given URL using the graph API, but it doesn't give you the number of shares over a specified time period (e.g. a specific day). Is there a way to get this information? I'm also interested in any way to get the number of "shares" over time on other social media platforms, including twitter (i.e. "retweets"). Time granularity must at least go down to the day, but a finer granularity (e.g. down to the hour) works too. Thanks in advance!
facebook facebook-graph-api
asked Nov 11 at 22:24
Jake Burchard
1,62741528
Is there a way to see the number of Facebook shares a URL has gotten over time? You can get share_count for a given URL using the graph API, but it doesn't give you the number of shares over a specified time period (e.g. a specific day). Is there a way to get this information? I'm also interested in any way to get the number of "shares" over time on other social media platforms, including twitter (i.e. "retweets"). Time granularity must at least go down to the day, but a finer granularity (e.g. down to the hour) works too. Thanks in advance!
facebook facebook-graph-api
facebook facebook-graph-api
asked Nov 11 at 22:24
Jake Burchard
1,62741528
asked Nov 11 at 22:24
Jake Burchard
1,62741528
asked Nov 11 at 22:24
Jake Burchard
1,62741528
asked Nov 11 at 22:24
Jake Burchard
1,62741528
asked Nov 11 at 22:24
Jake Burchard
1,62741528
1,62741528
did you check out the page insights api already? i know it´s possible with insights.
– luschn
Nov 12 at 8:18
Can you be more specific? I looked into it i'm not sure how to use insights since it only seems to be available given a page-id or post-id, neither of which I have in this case. I only have a URL
– Jake Burchard
Nov 13 at 3:16
it´s not possible for an url, only for pages.
– luschn
Nov 13 at 8:16
add a comment |
did you check out the page insights api already? i know it´s possible with insights.
– luschn
Nov 12 at 8:18
Can you be more specific? I looked into it i'm not sure how to use insights since it only seems to be available given a page-id or post-id, neither of which I have in this case. I only have a URL
– Jake Burchard
Nov 13 at 3:16
it´s not possible for an url, only for pages.
– luschn
Nov 13 at 8:16
did you check out the page insights api already? i know it´s possible with insights.
– luschn
Nov 12 at 8:18
did you check out the page insights api already? i know it´s possible with insights.
– luschn
Nov 12 at 8:18
Can you be more specific? I looked into it i'm not sure how to use insights since it only seems to be available given a page-id or post-id, neither of which I have in this case. I only have a URL
– Jake Burchard
Nov 13 at 3:16
Can you be more specific? I looked into it i'm not sure how to use insights since it only seems to be available given a page-id or post-id, neither of which I have in this case. I only have a URL
– Jake Burchard
Nov 13 at 3:16
it´s not possible for an url, only for pages.
– luschn
Nov 13 at 8:16
it´s not possible for an url, only for pages.
– luschn
Nov 13 at 8:16
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Even I had a similar requirement at one point of time, but I only required the number of shares made each day. If you also require only the same may be you can try this approach.
Run a cron job to fetch the number of shares and store it in database. The next day when the cron job runs, get the total shares made so far from the database and subtract it from the share_count, like this you can get shares made each day.
Maybe there is a better way, but this was enough for my scenarios. And you can use the same logic for Twitter and other social media's as well.
answered Nov 12 at 4:31
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Unfortunately I need this information retroactively
– Jake Burchard
Nov 13 at 3:17
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Even I had a similar requirement at one point of time, but I only required the number of shares made each day. If you also require only the same may be you can try this approach.
Run a cron job to fetch the number of shares and store it in database. The next day when the cron job runs, get the total shares made so far from the database and subtract it from the share_count, like this you can get shares made each day.
Maybe there is a better way, but this was enough for my scenarios. And you can use the same logic for Twitter and other social media's as well.
answered Nov 12 at 4:31
Thanthu
26512
Unfortunately I need this information retroactively
– Jake Burchard
Nov 13 at 3:17
add a comment |
up vote
0
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Even I had a similar requirement at one point of time, but I only required the number of shares made each day. If you also require only the same may be you can try this approach.
Run a cron job to fetch the number of shares and store it in database. The next day when the cron job runs, get the total shares made so far from the database and subtract it from the share_count, like this you can get shares made each day.
Maybe there is a better way, but this was enough for my scenarios. And you can use the same logic for Twitter and other social media's as well.
answered Nov 12 at 4:31
Thanthu
26512
Unfortunately I need this information retroactively
– Jake Burchard
Nov 13 at 3:17
add a comment |
up vote
0
down vote
up vote
0
down vote
Even I had a similar requirement at one point of time, but I only required the number of shares made each day. If you also require only the same may be you can try this approach.
Run a cron job to fetch the number of shares and store it in database. The next day when the cron job runs, get the total shares made so far from the database and subtract it from the share_count, like this you can get shares made each day.
Maybe there is a better way, but this was enough for my scenarios. And you can use the same logic for Twitter and other social media's as well.
answered Nov 12 at 4:31
Thanthu
26512
Even I had a similar requirement at one point of time, but I only required the number of shares made each day. If you also require only the same may be you can try this approach.
Run a cron job to fetch the number of shares and store it in database. The next day when the cron job runs, get the total shares made so far from the database and subtract it from the share_count, like this you can get shares made each day.
Maybe there is a better way, but this was enough for my scenarios. And you can use the same logic for Twitter and other social media's as well.
answered Nov 12 at 4:31
Thanthu
26512
edited Nov 12 at 5:04
answered Nov 12 at 4:31
Thanthu
26512
answered Nov 12 at 4:31
Thanthu
26512
answered Nov 12 at 4:31
Thanthu
26512
26512
Unfortunately I need this information retroactively
– Jake Burchard
Nov 13 at 3:17
add a comment |
Unfortunately I need this information retroactively
– Jake Burchard
Nov 13 at 3:17
Unfortunately I need this information retroactively
– Jake Burchard
Nov 13 at 3:17
Unfortunately I need this information retroactively
– Jake Burchard
Nov 13 at 3:17
add a comment |
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did you check out the page insights api already? i know it´s possible with insights.
– luschn
Nov 12 at 8:18
Can you be more specific? I looked into it i'm not sure how to use insights since it only seems to be available given a page-id or post-id, neither of which I have in this case. I only have a URL
– Jake Burchard
Nov 13 at 3:16
it´s not possible for an url, only for pages.
– luschn
Nov 13 at 8:16