REST API is gone, facebook share count is not working now

[Coyoter]

Aug 18, the FB REST API is gone.

There are any solution to fix my share count?

[neotropic2023]

Can confirm also, Facebook numbers are all zero now. Even in their demos.

[tarqd]

Could be solved by using graph.facebook.com/{url} instead of FQL

[sphism]

Same for us, I'll try the graph api mentioned above

[sphism]

Got the fb share counts working again... two bits of code need altering: Weirdly you have to switch back to a previous version of the facebook api (no idea why)

/* Json URL to get count number
  ================================================== */
  urlJson = {
    googlePlus: "",

    //new FQL method by Sire
    //facebook: "https://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=SELECT%20url,%20normalized_url,%20share_count,%20like_count,%20comment_count,%20total_count,commentsbox_count,%20comments_fbid,%20click_count%20FROM%20link_stat%20WHERE%20url=%27{url}%27&callback=?",
    //old method
    facebook: "http://graph.facebook.com/?id={url}&callback=?",
    //facebook : "http://api.ak.facebook.com/restserver.php?v=1.0&method=links.getStats&urls={url}&format=json"

Then the returned format is different so you have to change that too:

//get the FB total count (shares, likes and more)
        //else if(json.data && json.data.length > 0 && typeof json.data[0].total_count !== "undefined"){ //Facebook total count
        //  count += parseInt(json.data[0].total_count, 10);
        //}

        // Hacked: matt: FB api no longer returns share count, switching api's
        // returns data in this format now.
        else if(json.share && json.share && typeof json.share.share_count !== "undefined"){ //Facebook total count
          count += parseInt(json.share.share_count, 10);
        }
        // End hacked: matt

[ablunier]

Same problem here and your hack worked for me @sphism. Thank you!

[njt1982]

See Pull Request #296 - I've implemented @sphism 's changes... with a minor tweak - should be on HTTPS.

[martinfritch]

I implemented the hack from @sphism and my counts are still not working. GitHub is saying the code was last updated March 3. I seem to be missing something.

I found this article published last week: http://www.inc.com/james-parsons/the-era-of-the-share-count-is-coming-to-an-end.html that says FB Shared counts are no longer available...

[sphism]

@martinfritch Have a play with the facebook graph explorer, that's how i figured out how to get ours working yesterday. https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/145634995501895/?method=GET&path=%3Fid%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.imdb.com%252Ftitle%252Ftt2015381%252F&version=v2.7

Also try the code from the pull request @njt1982 made: #296

[njt1982]

@martinfritch did you use http or https for the graph facebook URL? http did not work on our project as the project is hosted on https. Chrome blocked the request.

That graph URL does (currently) work, but I have no idea if/when it'll be retired. It might just be that the person that wrote the blog didn't look around for new URLs..

This definitely works:
https://graph.facebook.com/?id=https://github.com/&callback=test

[Ewster]

Glad to find this fix. Thanks @sphism this worked for me.

[aandrewjoyce]

@sphism 's fix didn't work for me -- we're still getting 0s everywhere. Anyone know of any alternatives to sharrre that can accomplish the same thing?

[martinfritch]

Just an update: I got @sphism 's fix to work. Not sure what exactly I did, or what changed, but after working on it for several hours and trying different variations, I got a valid response back and now the counts are working fine!

[njt1982]

@martinfritch do you use any kind of version control so you can get a diff to see what you changed?

@aandrewjoyce did you change it from http to https? Do you get any errors in the console or network tab?

This patch does work, so if it doesn't work for you it would be good to know why.