Facebook graph api - delete like

Question

Hi there, I'm developing an app for Facebook in PHP, part of which lists the user's "likes". I would like to add a link next to each like so that the user can manage their likes by deleting them where they see fit.

Facebook mentions this in their graph api docs: "You can delete a like by issuing a DELETE request to /POST_ID/likes (since likes don't have an ID)." But each like must have an id - how else would you delete it?

Has anyone done this before, any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Likes do have an ID.

If you look at https://graph.facebook.com/me/likes, you will see that the resulting data does contain an ID value for each.

{
   "data": [
      {
         "name": "Audi",
         "category": "Consumer_products",
         "id": "96585976469",
         "created_time": "2010-09-27T15:30:15+0000"
      }
    ]
}

You might want to try the ID's there, I've noticed that the FB API doc sometimes has errors.

Edit: I think this also may be a terminology issue, as what the doc says doesn't have ID's is probably likes to a user post, and these probably don't really have an ID and can be removed by issuing a delete to the POST_ID/likes. Then there's the likes generated by liking pages and/or external websites via the like-button, and these DO have an ID. Confusing, it is.

Answer 2

You cannot delete or add likes using any API. The ONLY way a user can like or unlike something is by clicking on the like button. I am 100% sure about this, so don't spend too much time trying to figure this out. Sorry for the bad news.