Facebook

Facebook is a social networking service launched in 2004. As of January 2011 Facebook had more than 600 million active users.

The Omniscope Facebook feed allows you to download Facebook user, group, event, page, wall post and insight data associated with your Facebook account.

Options

Click on the "Connect" button to allow Omniscope to establish your Facebook connection details. The connection is established through your web browser. If you are already logged into Facebook then your current connection is used. In order to connect to a different account you must log out through your browser before clicking the "Connect" button.

After connecting to Facebook you need to select what data you want to download in the "Report" dropdown. Omniscope currently provides six different reports: Users, Groups, Events, Pages, Wall posts, Insights. Each of these report types is outlined below.

Users report

The "Users" report allows you to download the details of all of the users associated with your account. At the moment this includes data on the logged in user and the friends associated with that user.

Each row of data represents a single Facebook user. For each user, Omniscope provides information including the user's name, activities, interests, music TV and profile photographs.

Groups report

The "Groups" report allows you to retrieve the details of all of the Facebook groups associated with your account.

Each row of the data represents a single Facebook group. Omniscope provides information including the group name, type, website and recent news.

Events report

The "Events" report allows you to retrieve the details of all the Facebook events associated with your account.

Each row of the data represents a single Facebook event. Omniscope provides information including the event name, type, start and end time.

Pages /applications report

The "Pages/applications" report allows you to download the details of all the Facebook pages and Facebook applications associated with your account.

Each row of the data represents a Facebook page or a Facebook application. Omniscope provides data including the fan count, website and company information.

Wall posts report

The "Wall posts" report allows you to download the wall posts for selected users, groups, events and pages. If you select more than one entity the wall posts will be appended into a single table. You can determine the entity name and type (user, group event or page) by referring to the "Entity name" and "Entity type" columns.

Each row of the data represents a single wall posting. Omniscope provides data such as the posting user, number of impressions, like count, comment count and message. The "

Select the "Download comments" checkbox if you want to download the comments (where available) for the postings. 

Insights

Facebook insights provide Facebook page owners and application developers access to metrics about their content. You can use this data to analyse growth, demographics, consumption and creation of content.

The "Insights" report allows you to download Facebook insights data. 

• Pages/applications. Select the page or application that you want to download insights data for.
• Metrics. Select the metrics that you want to download. Metrics are downloaded into 11 categories.
• Date period. Select the breakdown of your data. If you select the "Day" date period your data will be split by day, with each row representing data for a specific date. If you select the "Month" date period your data will be split by month.
• Date range. Select the start and end date you want to download insights for. This should be used in combination with the "Date period" option.
• Report structure. Select the "Pivot data" option to show the data for each metric in a separate column. Select the "Raw data" option to download the information in it's raw format.