Likes comments etc. count for facebook

[plotti]

It would be awesome if you could extract the number of likes and comments counts. They are public after all so that might work well.

[logmanoriginal]

Unfortunately this doesn't seem possible, as the data is not available in the HTML source. Here is what RSS-Bridge receives (using FacebookBridge):

<div>
	<form rel="async" class="commentable_item" method="post" data-ft="&#123;&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;]&quot;&#125;" action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php"
		onsubmit="return window.Event &amp;&amp; Event.__inlineSubmit &amp;&amp; Event.__inlineSubmit(this,event)" id="u_0_3q">
		<input type="hidden" name="lsd" value="AVrFFg2x" autocomplete="off" />
		<input type="hidden" autocomplete="off" name="ft_ent_identifier" value="1018733731627793" />
		<input type="hidden" autocomplete="off" name="data_only_response" value="1" />
		<div class="_sa_ _gsd _fgm _5vsi _192z">
			<div class="_37uu"></div>
		</div>
		<div class="uiUfi UFIContainer _3-a6 _4eno _1blz _5pc9 _5vsj _5v9k" id="u_0_3p"></div>
	</form>
</div>

As you can see the .UFIContainer is empty, where in my browser it contains the data you requested:

Click to see contents

<div class="UFIRow UFILikeSentence _4204">
	<div direction="right" class="clearfix">
		<div class="_ohf rfloat">
			<div class="_3scp">
				<div class="_6a">
					<div class="_3scs uiPopover _6a _6b">
						<a class="_p" href="#" role="button" aria-controls="js_1rs" id="js_1rt">Oldest
							<div class="_3sct"></div>
						</a>
					</div>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div>
		<div class="">
			<div class="UFILikeSentenceText">
				<span>
					<a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=120663997947278&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22source_feedback_owner_id%22%3A%22120663997947278%22%2C%22source_feedback_identifier%22%3A%222096228870390771%22%2C%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D"
					 class="profileLink" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/mashody/?hc_location=ufi" id="js_1or" aria-describedby="js_1q7"
					 aria-owns="">Mashody</a>, De Schmid, Vani Çekrezi and 251 others like this.</span>
			</div>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>
<div class="UFIRow UFIShareRow">
	<a class="UFIShareLink" rel="dialog" data-hover="tooltip" ajaxify="/ajax/timeline/sign_up_dialog/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages_reaction_units%2Fmore%2F%3Fpage_id%3D120663997947278%26cursor%3D%257B%2522timeline_cursor%2522%253A%2522timeline_unit%253A1%253A00000000001525858685%253A04611686018427387904%253A09223372036854775801%253A04611686018427387904%2522%252C%2522timeline_section_cursor%2522%253A%257B%257D%252C%2522has_next_page%2522%253Atrue%257D%26surface%3Dwww_pages_home%26unit_count%3D8&amp;entity_id=120663997947278&amp;context=share"
	 href="https://www.facebook.com/shares/view?id=2096228870390771" id="js_1mp">7 Shares</a>
</div>
<h6 class="accessible_elem">Comments</h6>
<div class="_3b-9 _j6a">
	<div>
		<div id="comment_js_kw" class="UFIRow _48ph UFILastComment _48pi UFILastCommentComponent _2o9m UFIComment _4oep" role="article"
		 aria-label="Comment" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;R&quot;}">
			<div class="_3b-9">
				<div>
					<div direction="left" class="clearfix">
						<div class="_ohe lfloat">
							<img alt="Jan Hofmann" class="img UFIActorImage _54ru img _8o _8s UFIImageBlockImage img" src="https://scontent.fhaj1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/p32x32/15032916_1498578026838253_9103257853030442786_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&amp;oh=5959d7f507d52f4217a2c2687d87397c&amp;oe=5BB89A89">
						</div>
						<div class="">
							<div class="UFIImageBlockContent _42ef">
								<div class="UFICommentContentBlock">
									<div class="UFICommentContent">
										<div class="_26f8">
											<div class="_10la">
												<span class=" UFICommentActorAndBody">
													<span class="">
														<span class=" UFICommentActorName" dir="ltr">Jan Hofmann</span>
													</span>
													<span>
														<span>
															<span data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}">
																<span class="UFICommentBody">
																	<span>Janet Free</span>
																</span>
															</span>
														</span>
													</span>
												</span>
												<div class="_10lo"></div>
											</div>
											<span class="_36rj">
												<a class="UFICommentCloseButton hdn _1-be _xw0 _xw9 _5upp _42ft" data-testid="ufi_comment_close_button" menutype="DOTS"
												 title="Manage" href="#">Manage</a>
											</span>
										</div>
										<span></span>
										<div></div>
									</div>
									<div class="fsm fwn fcg UFICommentActions">
										<span>
											<a class="uiLinkSubtle" href="/mashody/posts/2096228870390771?comment_id=2111452285535096&amp;comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D"
											 data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;N&quot;}" data-testid="ufi_comment_timestamp">
												<abbr class="UFISutroCommentTimestamp livetimestamp" title="Sunday, May 6, 2018 at 11:02 AM" data-utime="1525629733"
												 data-minimize="true" data-shorten="true">6w</abbr>
											</a>
										</span>
									</div>
								</div>
							</div>
						</div>
					</div>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>

Looks like Facebook does some lazy loading for the statistics and comments, which is very unfortunate. On the other hand, the FB2Bridge might have access to the contents, but it seems to be broken right now. At least on my machine.

[dvikan]

#2047