getReactions function

Extract total count of reactions to one or more Facebook posts

getReactions retrieves information from a single or multiple posts, returning the total count of reactions of each type (like, love, haha, wow, sad, angry).

getReactions(post, token, verbose = TRUE, api = NULL)

Arguments

• post: A post ID, or a vector of post IDs
• token: Either a temporary access token created at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer or the OAuth token created with fbOAuth.
• verbose: logical, default is TRUE, which will print additional information on the console.
• api: API version. e.g. "v2.8". NULL is the default.

Details

The solution implemented here is based on this Stack Overflow response: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36930414/how-can-i-get-facebook-graph-api-reaction-summary-count-separately

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 reactions for most recent post
post <- getReactions(post=fb_page$id[1], token=fb_oauth)
## End(Not run)

Author(s)

Pablo Barbera pablo.barbera@nyu.edu

See Also

getPage, getPost