facebook connector questions

[AntoineCh]

Hi all,

I'm currently working on a facebook dashboard. I'm pulling the following data using the page_id, and my questions regarding them:

1. "Insights" from the page
   • Lifetime likes from which you can derive likes from each day
   • Number of unique users "talking about the page" => what does that mean ? Shares ?
1. Apparently you can't pull a page's insights with facebook graph API in v2.8. Therefore, i'm using v2.6. Any drawback I should be aware of ?
2. Is it as I understand ; there are only 2 kpis with no page view count ?

     2. Shares, comments and likes from the page, but also peoples' data when their profile are public

1. I can't find the shares accross the tables in the data I pulled
2. I'm having trouble with that last item. I'm pretty sure it's possible, but i get all tables (books, feed, etc.) are empty and permissions throws an error (see attached):

"DataSource.Error: Facebook: (#100) Cannot request permissions of other users

Details:

    DataSourceKind=Facebook

    DataSourcePath=https://graph.facebook.com/

    Detail=https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/XXXXXXXXXXXX/permissions?limit=1000"

When i enter it in the browser, it looks like I need an access token (from google graph API ?). But I wouldn't know where to fit that token, there is no such parameter anywhere in my code.

     3. Any other useful data I'm missing and that I can get legally on fb ?

Thanks for your help !

Antoine

Here's the mother query I use to pull data for 2.:

let

    page_id = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXX",

    get_from_facebook = get_from_facebook(page_id),

    SampleOrNot = if SampleOrNot = false then get_from_facebook else Table.FirstN(get_from_facebook, SampleOrNot as number),

    #"Expanded object_link" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(SampleOrNot, "object_link", {"created_time", "message", "connections"}, {"post.timestamp", "post.message", "post.connections"}),

    #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Expanded object_link", "post.id", 1, 1),

    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added Index",{{"story", type text}, {"post.message", type text}, {"post.timestamp", type datetime}}),

    #"Inserted Date" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "post.date", each DateTime.Date([post.timestamp]), type date),

    #"Inserted Time" = Table.AddColumn(#"Inserted Date", "post.time", each DateTime.Time([post.timestamp]), type time),

    #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Inserted Time",{"story", "post.id", "post.timestamp", "post.date", "post.time", "post.message", "post.connections"})

in

    #"Removed Other Columns"

Where SampleOrNot is a parameter = 3 and get_from_facebook is:

// to be added: type parameter, date parameter

let

    from_facebook = (page_id as text) => Facebook.Graph("https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/"

                                                        & page_id

                                                        & "/feed?limit=100")

in

    from_facebook

[v-ljerr-msft]

Hi @AntoineCh,

As the Facebook connector in Power BI Desktop relies on the Facebook Graph API, and it seems that most of your questions are related to the Facebook Graph API itself, I would suggest that you also post the questions on the Facebook forums for better assistance. 

Regards

[AntoineCh]

Hi @v-ljerr-msft,

Not really, no. My questions are mostly on what you can do through the connector, and whether or not it's enough to do what I want to do. I've read some documentation on the api, but I'm wondering if I can reproduce the output through the connector.

Antoine