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How to add likes to the top Facebook business pages?

Why doesn't the Facebook API give developers access to Like-data for pages outside of Facebook.com?

  • Is there any compelling reason facebook keeps links and likes out of their APIs? There is no way to access user->likes mappings for URLs - only for facebook pages. That is you can neither retrieve the set of Links a user has posted, nor the set of URLs a User has liked.   In fact, just look for a like in your own stream via the web, get the fbid from there (firebug or so) and then try to access that fbid via the API. You'll see that this works for (almost) every other facebook story_type, except for likes which from the looks of it are explicitly blocked. This data is also filtered from the feed and stream APIs. The only way to get to it right now is via the ajax API their own web UI uses, but that's not endorsed by facebook. I'm a big fan of their current strategy and execution, but I don't understand why they think it's good business practice to prevent developers from building applications within their ecosystem. If anything it would cement their positioning as the central store of like-information. Either they serve the complete ecosystem well enough, then third parties won't add value anyway, or it will just drive new applications to other APIs like Twitter's and Google's

  • Answer:

    So far both answers have been fooled by the API docs. There is no User->Likes mapping in the API right now.

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Requires authentication but try:- https://graph.facebook.com/me/likes Can replace the me with a user id, although user must be public or your friend I believe.

Stephen Keable

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