Facebook Page likes and Group member count

[ReenigneArcher]

📋 Description

A badge to show Facebook Group member count would be nice.

🔗 Data

Without an API the data can be obtained from the webpages.
Page
Example page url: https://www.facebook.com/RetroArcherFB
The page likes can be found between the word text and likes... e.g. "text":"30 likes"

Group
Example group url: https://www.facebook.com/groups/retroracher
The member count follows this text: formatted_count_text

Facebook also has an API which would probably be better than using regex, although more complicated to get going initially.

Graph API docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api

It requires a token, which does expire; however, here is method to obtain a permanent access token. https://github.com/ReenigneArcher/facebook-post-action#-how-to-get-a-facebook-permanent-access-token

🎤 Motivation

Would extend Shields social badges.

[calebcartwright]

Thank you for reaching out and sharing your idea.

Facebook badges have actually been requested on a few prior occasions (#6711, #2120) but had to be rejected due to a combination of rate limiting and overall fit.

I think all of those prior concerns still hold which means we'll likely need to close this as a duplicate

[chris48s]

Agreed - I think the rate limit is still a blocker for us

[ReenigneArcher]

If anyone finds this looking for the same thing, I have a work around using GitHub actions to cache the response from Facebook's graph api.

I'm using python and here is the relevant code. -> https://github.com/LizardByte/uno/blob/cd723981d20bc907137b77dd1cb11dcef96fcfc2/update.py#L79-L97