getPost function

Extract information about a public Facebook post

getPost retrieves information about a public Facebook post, including list of comments and likes.

getPost(post, token, n = 500, comments = TRUE, likes = (!reactions),
  reactions = FALSE, n.likes = n, n.comments = n, n.reactions = n,
  api = NULL)

Arguments

• post: A post ID
• token: Either a temporary access token created at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer or the OAuth token created with fbOAuth.
• n: numeric, maximum number of comments and likes to return.
• comments: logical, default is TRUE, which will return data frame with comments to the post.
• likes: logical, default is TRUE unless reactions is true, which will return data frame with likes for the post.
• reactions: logical, default is FALSE, which will return data frame with reactions (like, love, etc) for the post
• n.likes: numeric, maximum number of likes to return. Default is n.
• n.comments: numeric, maximum number of comments to return. Default is n.
• n.reactions: numeric, maximum number of reactions to return. Default is n.
• api: API version. e.g. "v2.8". NULL is the default.

Details

getPost returns a list with up to four components: post, likes, comments, and reactions. post contains information about the post: author, creation date, id, counts of likes, comments, and shares, etc. likes is a data frame that contains names and Facebook IDs of all the users that liked the post. comments is a data frame with information about the comments to the post (author, message, creation time, id). To download also the replies to specific comments, see getCommentReplies. Note that the total number of comments may be different from the number report in comments_count

if some comments have been deleted.

Examples

## Not run:

## See examples for fbOAuth to know how token was created.
## Getting information about Facebook's Facebook Page
load("fb_oauth")
fb_page <- getPage(page="facebook", token=fb_oauth)
## Getting information and likes/comments about most recent post
post <- getPost(post=fb_page$id[1], n=2000, token=fb_oauth)
## End(Not run)

Author(s)

Pablo Barbera pablo.barbera@nyu.edu

See Also

getUsers, getPage, fbOAuth