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The OG social network. It’s robust, but it carries a lot of legacy baggage. And rate limits. So many rate limits.

Supported Content Types

  • Page Posts: Text, Link, Image, Video. 0-10 files.
  • Reels: Vertical video for Pages. 1 video.
  • Stories: Image or video. 1 file.

Quirks & Gotchas

Page Tokens Expire (Important!)

Facebook Page Access Tokens typically expire after 60 days.
This is not a bug, it’s a feature. If a user changes their password or security settings, the token dies immediately. You need to build your app to handle re-connection flows gracefully. We handle automatic refreshing where possible, but we can’t perform miracles. If the token dies, the user needs to reconnect.

Reels Limitations

Facebook Reels via API are stricter than mobile uploads:
  • No “Remix” functionality available via API.
  • Duration: 3 seconds to 8 minutes (480s). Not 60s - that’s Stories.
  • Minimum resolution: 540x960.

Media Limits

See Platform Limits for the full breakdown of file sizes, resolutions, aspect ratios, and bitrates.

Analytics

For general analytics concepts (refresh rates, data retention, what “Returns 0” means), see the Analytics Overview.

Profile Analytics

Period: Rolling window (30 days).
Why so many zeros? To avoid hitting Facebook’s aggressive rate limits, we’ve disabled fetching profile-level likes, comments, and post counts. We’d have to scan every single post on your page to get these, and Facebook would block us (and you). It’s not worth it.
MetricDescriptionNote
impressionsTotal impressions
impressionsUniqueUnique users reachedUses 28-day period to avoid overcounting
viewsPage views
viewsUnique-Returns 0 (not provided by API)
likes-Returns 0 (disabled to save rate limits)
comments-Returns 0 (disabled to save rate limits)
postCount-Returns 0 (disabled to save rate limits)
followersPage followers
following-Returns 0 (not applicable to Pages)

Post Analytics

Period: Lifetime (Snapshot).
MetricDescriptionNote
impressionsTotal impressions
impressionsUniqueUnique impressions
viewsVideo viewsVideo posts only
viewsUniqueUnique video viewsVideo posts only
likesTotal reactionsAggregates Like, Love, Wow, Haha, Anger
commentsTotal comments
sharesTotal shares
savesTotal saves

Reaction Aggregation

When we say “Likes” for Facebook, we mean all reactions combined. Whether someone Loved it, Hated it (Anger), or Laughed at it (Haha) - it all counts as one likes number. We don’t break down reaction types in the standard schema. If you need that granularity, check the raw analytics data.