How can PHP be used to extract specific information, such as user names and profile links, from Facebook likes and shares?

To extract specific information such as user names and profile links from Facebook likes and shares, you can use the Facebook Graph API in combination with PHP. By making a request to the API endpoint that corresponds to the likes or shares of a specific post or page, you can retrieve the necessary data in JSON format. You can then parse this JSON response in PHP to extract the user names and profile links. 

<?php

// Replace 'ACCESS_TOKEN' with your actual Facebook Graph API access token
$access_token = 'ACCESS_TOKEN';

// Make a request to the Facebook Graph API to retrieve likes data
$response = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/{POST_ID}/likes?access_token=' . $access_token);
$data = json_decode($response, true);

// Extract user names and profile links from the likes data
foreach ($data['data'] as $like) {
    $user_name = $like['name'];
    $profile_link = 'https://www.facebook.com/' . $like['id'];

    echo 'User Name: ' . $user_name . '<br>';
    echo 'Profile Link: ' . $profile_link . '<br><br>';
}

?>

Keywords

PHP web scraping Facebook API data extraction user profiles

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