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6 years ago Hi Alexandre,
just very recently I ran into a similar problem: the api returns only a fraction of posts made by a page I didn't notice this problem until a couple of weeks ago. I crosschecked with CrowdTangle data, it still shows the posts over at CrowdTangle.
I did some testing, this is what I found out so far:
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Apparently there is a cut around 16th October. For around the last ten days it seems to work properly again. The date correlates with changes in the Graph API: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2017/07/18/graph-api-v2.10/
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Before that date it appears that mostly link posts have gone missing, most of the posts I could still grab via the API were photo or video posts. See picture below:
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I don't know what to make of the complete weeks of missing posts.
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Oddly enough it still works in CrowdTangle:
Did you, @AlexandreMillette, make any progress finding out what's going wrong?
Many thanks
Marvin
andreamamprin
Hi Pablo,
A colleague and I have been using your package to retrieve some "old" (may 2017) publications on news pages for a few months. Everything worked fine until two weeks ago. At this moment, we can only extract a fraction of the posts that were made.
Since we had some backup files, we tried to extract something we already had, with the same code, to see if the numbers were a match. We dropped from around 900ish posts to 100ish posts.
The coding never changed except for the timeframe (since, until). Any idea on what might be the problem? We are puzzled!
Best regards