Facebook total number of posts in Google Data Studio

Wonderlab Media

started a topic about 1 year ago

Hi there,

I would like to add the total number of posts by page admins for a given (monthly) period. Unfortunately I don't find a matching metric in the tool.

Can you help me there? This would be great as Interactions and Engagement Rate are bound to the number of posts so that would be a valid metric to add to my report.

Thanks,

Alice

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Heidi Virta
said about 1 year ago

Hi,

thanks for your question.

A metric for total amount of posts for a date range does unfortunately not exist directly in Facebook API. I have anyway added this as a feature request, but it will likely not be implemented very soon.

Please use a table graph to get your posts, and look at the row amount to see the amount of posts.

Best,
Supermetrics team
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Martin Frönmark
said 3 months ago

Hi there,

But there is. There's the URL https://graph.facebook.com/v3.2/{page_id}/published_posts/
And it's possible to ask for the total count for a time period by specifying: summary=total_count

Could you maybe have another go at this?

Best Regards,
Martin
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Heidi Virta
said 3 months ago

Hi Martin,

thanks for your message.
I'll forward this tip to our developers to see if they would be willing to add the field for Post Count.
Meanwhile, I hope you noticed our workaround: https://support.supermetrics.com/support/solutions/articles/19000090790-how-do-i-get-the-count-of-posts-in-data-studio-

Best,
Heidi / Supermetrics

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Martin Frönmark
said 3 months ago

Thank you for that! However, it does not seem possible to use this in a Scorecard because it's not really a metric. Am I right?
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Heidi Virta
said 3 months ago

Hi Martin,

That is true, you are right. You'll need to add it to a graph that contains some metrics.

Best,
Heidi / Supermetrics
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Martin Frönmark
said 3 months ago

I think I figured it out by doing this (introducing a metric into the calculated field): Comments on post - Comments on post + (SUM(CASE WHEN Post ID IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE 1 END))

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David Steinmayr
said 3 months ago

this is genius thanks!
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Delaina McCormack
said 2 months ago

I'm confused. Could someone share the instructions step by step to show number of posts per page in a given date range?
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Heidi Virta
said 2 months ago

Hi Delaina,

The instructions can be found here:
https://support.supermetrics.com/support/solutions/articles/19000090790-how-do-i-get-the-count-of-posts-in-data-studio-

If there seems to be errors or issues in getting the post count, you can always contact us through a private support ticket, and we'll be happy to help.

Best,
Heidi / Supermetrics team

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