facebook graph API endpoint for getting “likes, shares, comments” for post(s)

Question

Facebook is planning to drop support for FQL after V2.0 https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog/#v2_0_fql

The below task could be done easily with FQL

Answer 1

The field shares does not need the .summary(true) at the end. It will bring always the total. But the likes and comments does need .summary(true)

Example:

[POST_ID]?fields=shares,likes.summary(true),comments.summary(true)

Improved version works with Graph Api v2.11 (add limit(0) to removes lists of likes and comments and get only summary data):

[POST_ID]?fields=shares,likes.summary(true).limit(0),comments.summary(true).limit(0)

This will bring the total count of shares, comments and likes.

You may have a access_token with an read_stream permission to get the shares count.