Graph API Version

Place Topic

Reading

The category of a place Page

New Page Experience

This endpoint is supported for New Page Experience.

Feature Permissions

NameDescription
Page Public Content AccessThis feature permission may be required.

Example

Graph API Explorer
GET /v21.0/{place-topic-id} HTTP/1.1
Host: graph.facebook.com
/* PHP SDK v5.0.0 */
/* make the API call */
try {
  // Returns a `Facebook\FacebookResponse` object
  $response = $fb->get(
    '/{place-topic-id}',
    '{access-token}'
  );
} catch(Facebook\Exceptions\FacebookResponseException $e) {
  echo 'Graph returned an error: ' . $e->getMessage();
  exit;
} catch(Facebook\Exceptions\FacebookSDKException $e) {
  echo 'Facebook SDK returned an error: ' . $e->getMessage();
  exit;
}
$graphNode = $response->getGraphNode();
/* handle the result */
/* make the API call */
FB.api(
    "/{place-topic-id}",
    function (response) {
      if (response && !response.error) {
        /* handle the result */
      }
    }
);
/* make the API call */
new GraphRequest(
    AccessToken.getCurrentAccessToken(),
    "/{place-topic-id}",
    null,
    HttpMethod.GET,
    new GraphRequest.Callback() {
        public void onCompleted(GraphResponse response) {
            /* handle the result */
        }
    }
).executeAsync();
/* make the API call */
FBSDKGraphRequest *request = [[FBSDKGraphRequest alloc]
                               initWithGraphPath:@"/{place-topic-id}"
                                      parameters:params
                                      HTTPMethod:@"GET"];
[request startWithCompletionHandler:^(FBSDKGraphRequestConnection *connection,
                                      id result,
                                      NSError *error) {
    // Handle the result
}];
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Parameters

ParameterDescription
icon_size
enum{24, 36, 48, 72}

The size of the icon to get, one of 36, 48, or 72

Fields

FieldDescription
id
numeric string

The topic ID

count
unsigned int32

How many Pages have this category

has_children
bool

Whether there are subcategories of this category

icon_url
string

The URL for the icon representing this category

name
string

Localized name of the category

parent_ids
list<id>

IDs of any parent categories that this is a subcategory of

plural_name
string

Localized plural name of the category

top_subtopic_names
list<string>

Names of the subtopics associated with the most pages

Error Codes

ErrorDescription
100Invalid parameter
2500Error parsing graph query

Creating

You can't perform this operation on this endpoint.

Updating

You can't perform this operation on this endpoint.

Deleting

You can't perform this operation on this endpoint.