How to get the number of facebook followers of a personal page?

Question

PHP

Facebook has disabled the ability to get the number of followers through the API,
but they exist)))
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/follo...
can anyone tell me how to get this number using php ?

Answer 1

Get number of page likes:

$pageName = 'facebook';
$query = 'SELECT fan_count FROM page WHERE username="' . $pageName . '"';
$response = file_get_contents( 'http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=facebook.fql.query&query=' . rawurlencode( $query ) );
$xml = simplexml_load_string( $response );
echo $xml->page->fan_count;

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