Facebook API

WHO'S IT FOR?

Using such features as gender and age recognition (via face photos) and determination of post reactions can enrich your data and provide your customers with powerful analytics.

Comprehensive data

Effective search

Unique features

API customization

Get 20+ datasets about posts, users, groups, pages, and comments for your dashboards

Powerful search for posts and profiles with 10+ parameters, along with various filtering options

Gender and age recognition by user photo, recognition of reactions to posts, and much more

Human support throughout the entire usage life of the API, and customizations if necessary

Facebook search

Facebook API enables you to search for information about posts, pages, and groups using keywords or phrases. When searching for posts, you can apply the following parameters:

Top - search for the most relevant posts

Latest - search for latest posts

Hashtag - search for posts containing a target hashtag

You can also include additional search parameters in your query and search, such as:

Tagged location

Author

Date (from ... to)

Results can be filtered by parameters including tagged location, author, date, text search query, language, and owner's profile type.

By having a database of IDs or usernames of your target profiles, you can get data in bulk about Facebook public profiles. These are the most popular data we provide:

ID, username, biography (about), profile photo

User gender and age

Hometown and workplace (for users only)

Contacts: address, phone (for public pages only)

Number of friends, followers, members

Detailed lists of posts and friends

Using our Facebook API, you can download large amounts of post data based on their ID or target public pages. Below are some of the data you can get:

Post content: text, language, list of hashtags, list of tagged users, owner ID

Number of reactions by type (like, love, sad, etc.)

Number of shares, likes, comments, etc.

URLs of attachments (videos, images, previews, posts, links, etc.)

A detailed list of reactors (can be filtered by reaction type)

A detailed list of shares for a post (owner IDs, text, reactions, etc.)

You can download comments (selected or from a specific post) and replies and get owner IDs, comment text, language, and reactions.

Note: only the most requested data types are listed here. The full list of Facebook API data is available in the documentation in the relevant sections.

You can create tasks for a one-time or auto data update:

update - simple queued task for updating an item once

auto_update - tasks for monitoring items for some time

When creating an auto update task, you can apply the following parameters:

auto_update_interval - data update interval, for example, every 3600 seconds

auto_update_expire_at - parameter according to which automatic data monitoring will be canceled after the specified date, for example after 2021-04-06T21:42:12

You can additionally specify the callback_url parameter when creating the task. In that case, the updated data will be delivered to this URL every auto_update_interval seconds.
This function is available for all items (post, profile, post search, profile search).

OUR CLIENTS

POST

https://api.data365.co/facebook/post/10156726192517217/update?load_comments=1&max_comments=100&callback_url=https://YOUR CALLBACK URL&access_token=YOUR ACCESS TOKEN

RESPONSE:

{
}

If you specify the callback_url parameter when creating the task, the post and comments data will be delivered to this URL after the task receives the "finished" status (i.e., after the post is downloaded). In this case, you can skip all the subsequent steps.

If you don't specify the callback_url parameter or need to retrieve the post data you downloaded earlier, you'll also need to follow steps 2-4.

GET

https://api.data365.co/facebook/post/10156726192517217/update?access_token=YOUR ACCESS TOKEN

RESPONSE:

{
}

Step 3. When the status is "finished", make a GET request to get the post data

GET

https://api.data365.co/facebook/post/10156726192517217?access_token=YOUR ACCESS TOKEN

RESPONSE:

{
}

Step 4. When the status is "finished", make a GET request to get the comments on the post

GET

https://api.data365.co/facebook/post/10156726192517217/comments?access_token=YOUR ACCESS TOKEN

RESPONSE:

{
... ... ... ... ...
}

Today it is simply impossible to build a successful business, while ignoring the opportunities that Fb provides with many different mobile tools. That is why many companies all over the world use this network for promotion and advertising and there are agencies who help them to make a good marketing campaign. Sometimes they are researching with the help of software programs which are integrated with this service. But it's still better to use the API.

Facebook API meaning, as one of the most popular Application Programming Interfaces for social media analytics companies and social media listening product developers, is full access to social graphics, news feed and user data. Our tool proved to be well-documented and easy to use, so it is in demand even among those developers who are just getting acquainted with the social network API.

The official product from Data365 makes it possible to search any information on pages or in Facebook groups automatically. You can always quickly track news or posts, actions and data of public accounts who can become your potential customers, conduct market research and benchmarking, and all this in a few clicks.

Do you want to know in detail how to do it? Just check out the helpful articles and Facebook API documentation on our website. There is also a Useful tips section in the documentation with recommendations for additional configuration of processes that improve interaction with the API. And of course, you can always contact us in any convenient way and we will explain everything or send additional docs!

The process of obtaining access to the API is simple and will not take you much time (maybe you even will have some of it for the rest):

Leave a request for connection and generation of a token – a key, without which you will not have access to the API.

Make standard settings and start writing requests, including through the collection of ready-made ones, which we call Postman.

Start searching, selecting and analyzing information that is stored in a specialized data warehouse from now on.

If you have some technical background or experience with other APIs, you will definitely understand the integration and query process. Otherwise, you can always hire a specialist, whom we will help organize the data collection process and set up a web tool. After all, we have made a Facebook API developer guide especially for you, which contains the detailed information on how to use the product, how to form requests, what are the required and optional request parameters, sample responses, expert advice and other useful information. And if after studying you still have questions – contact our support team in any convenient way.

Our web service always provides verified and carefully selected data, regardless of search location and language. It will be especially important to master this tool and carefully study the Facebook API docs for those who are engaged in monitoring and listening in social networks.

Get information about FB users, their location, comments, posts and other data according to preset settings in a matter of seconds, in whatever language the request is. The data will also be received in any case, no matter what key you are looking for – even if the result includes posts in foreign languages, you can always exclude them using a filter.

Fb has millions of users who post, comment and share something every day. Therefore, manually, without a specialized application, it can be difficult to search and filter data by location or key phrase, regardless of its language. To facilitate the work of programmers and social media monitoring specialists, we have developed the Facebook API, which allows you to work with a large amount of information, search even for complex keywords and keys, and analyze the received data taking into account predefined filters and sorting options.

Facebook API data is not only a search in a social network. This is an opportunity to get full data about the user only by his nickname or ID, download an unlimited number of messages and comments and analyze others. And this is not a complete list – try the trial version or other type of package and see the versatility of this tool.

The Facebook API is a service that allows developers to connect with the Facebook platform programmatically. With the API of Facebook, it is available to grab data, post information, manage Facebook ads and business pages, build applications and games.

Facebook offers a number of APIs to the developer community. The Facebook Marketing API lets to run automated marketing campaigns and get info about user responses to the ads. Access to ad statistics available with Facebook Insights API. Facebook Pages API allows running Facebook brands pages programmatically, scheduling content, and adding publications. Facebook Graph API provides to retrieve data and to manage it too.

Facebook Graph API or Facebook public data API is the most commonly used API and the main way to get data from Facebook.

Data365 API Facebook is more like a Facebook Graph API and mainly focuses on getting data. Our API for Facebook provides a powerful search for posts and profiles with more than ten parameters with various filtering options. If necessary, our API, as compared with official API in Facebook, enables developers to create monitoring tasks for a one-time or auto data update. Moreover, Data365 Facebook API provides such unique features as gender and age recognition (via face photos) as well as identification of post reactions that give a competitive advantage in obtained analytics.

By choosing the Data365 API of Facebook, you will get significant benefits compared with a Facebook public API in receiving comprehensive data.

Yes, our API is Facebook RESTful API. REST is a software architectural style that describes how to get access to resources and define high-level design guidelines or constraints for creating web services. We use this generally accepted architectural approach to provide our clients with Facebook RESTful API.

The typical process of REST APIs functioning is to make requests for a resource and return all appropriated info about the resource, transformed into a format that is determined by the receiving requests API. Most REST APIs use the HTTP protocol. Our REST API Facebook is completely HTTP-based and uses HTTP requests to interact with Facebook data.

In our Facebook API, we used such HTTP request methods:
POST request to create a new resource, i.e. to add new Facebook data to the Data365 database, or to update existing data.
GET request to retrieve a resource, i.e. a query to Data365 databases, to get the data that was collected after the POST query was completed.
After completing the request, the user receives a response in JSON format.

An example of a POST request to update Facebook post data:

https://api.data365.co/v1.1/facebook/post/{post_id}/update

An example of a GET request to get Facebook post data:

https://api.data365.co/v1.1/facebook/post/{post_id}

So Data365 Facebook API is REST API and has all the key benefits to this type of API: flexibility, scalability and including the most existing web technologies. Try our Facebook API, and make sure it is a reliable tool to obtain all information you need.