No Reliable Way to Track Daily View Counts for Bulk Facebook Video URLs Without Graph API
Teams needing daily view-count tracking for hundreds to thousands of their own public Facebook video and reel URLs cannot use the Graph API due to app approval and token restrictions. Workarounds like metadata scraping and headless browsers return stale or inaccurate counts and break down at scale due to bot detection and fragile page structures.
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