API for getting total number of likes of a facebook page

Question

I am looking for a way to keep track of my facebook page's number of likes every day. Is there an API for it? or any other way?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can do it in an even easier way with the Facebook Graph API - it just returns JSON data, like so : http://graph.facebook.com/225397695229/

Where 225397695229 is the page or user ID you're referring to on FB. Just scroll to the bottom of the array and look for "likes".

Edit - 9/4/2015 -
Looks like an access token is required now in Facebook Graph 2.4 - so, appended to the URL would be &access_token={token_id}. Details on obtaining a Page token are here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens#pagetokens

Answer 2

If you are the admin of the page, you should already have access to the Facebook Insights which would provide you that information and even more!

If you want to programmatically access these data, you need to create an application, grant a read_insights and maybe offline_access permissions and then it's an easy api call:

$facebook->api("/$page_id/insights");