Facebook Graph API - Get like count on page/group photos

Question

I\'ve been testing graph API and ran into a problem. How can I get like count from photos of a page/group?

I\'m administrator/creator of a group. When entering in ht

Answer 1

You can get the comments/likes count without having to paginate through all likes by using the fields parameter in combination with likes.limit(1).summary(true). For example, a search api query for pizza below will give you all public posts and their likes count summarized:

https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=pizza&type=post&fields=id,name,likes.limit(1).summary(true)

results (truncated):

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "47883936273_659693910762305", 
      "name": "Instagram", 
      "created_time": "2014-02-16T01:15:29+0000", 
      "likes": {
        "data": [
          {
            "id": "100002243084532", 
            "name": "Yvette Martin"
          }
        ], 
        "paging": {
          "cursors": {
            "after": "MTAwMDAyMjQzMDg0NTMy", 
            "before": "MTAwMDAyMjQzMDg0NTMy"
          }, 
          "next": "https://graph.facebook.com/47883936273_659693910762305/likes?limit=1&summary=1&after=MTAwMDAyMjQzMDg0NTMy"
        }, 
        "summary": {
          "total_count": 13682
        }
      }
    }, 
    {
      "id": "136336876521150_314001148754721", 
      "name": "Pizza Box Turns into Plates & Storage Unit!", 
      "created_time": "2014-02-15T21:20:00+0000", 
      "likes": {
        "data": [
          {
            "id": "100005373008864", 
            "name": "Liliana Campoli"
          }
        ], 
        "paging": {
          "cursors": {
            "after": "MTAwMDA1MzczMDA4ODY0", 
            "before": "MTAwMDA1MzczMDA4ODY0"
          }, 
          "next": "https://graph.facebook.com/136336876521150_314001148754721/likes?limit=1&summary=1&after=MTAwMDA1MzczMDA4ODY0"
        }, 
        "summary": {
          "total_count": 2792
        }
      }
    }