Get facebook user checkins

Question

I need to get a list of a facebook user checkins both in photos and in status.

I tried to use graph api to query /me/locations' like:

$this->api->api('/me/locations?limit=1000');

It returns me a list of user checkins with three different types: photo, checkin or status.

My problem is that I need to get the photos that have user checkins but I can't seem to find it.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 08 '12 at 05:53

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If you look at the User documentation, under the title feeds, it lists a method of fetching only the posts which have a location (Checkin) in it.

https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed?with=location

As for getting Photos with a location (Checkin), there doesn't seem to be any documentation that suggests that the Photos can be filtered similar to the way Posts can be filtered. At best, I guess you will have to fetch all photos and then filter out the ones that do not have the place tag. Posts use the location tag while Photos use the place tag.

answered Nov 08 '12 at 05:53

Siddharth Lele

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Hi! Thanks for the answer but when I query https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos i get no place tag on any photo. – jribeiro Nov 08 '12 at 06:01
@jribeiro: Photos use the _place_ tag. Not the _location_ tag. – Siddharth Lele Nov 08 '12 at 06:04
Yes. Any reason for no place tag returned when I query me/photos?fields=created_time,height,id,source,width,picture,places&limit=2500 ? And yes I have tagged some photos – jribeiro Nov 08 '12 at 06:10
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@jribeiro: Try this: `/me/photos?fields=id,picture,place&type=uploaded&limit=2500` You can add more fields as per your requirements. – Siddharth Lele Nov 08 '12 at 06:20
@jribeiro: Glad to have been of help. :-) – Siddharth Lele Nov 08 '12 at 06:25
What if I want to get Check in data for my page? – notgiorgi Jul 30 '16 at 10:26

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