The Facebook API for the page is the fan_countnumber of users who like the page. For global pages, this is the number of all brand pages. ( https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/page/ ) To get a specific number of fans for a particular global page (rather than brand amounts), we used / {page- id} / insights / page_fans_country to get the number of subscribers to a particular page using this public metric.
I see that “starting on February 5, 2018, the access token on the page with read_insights permission will be required for information belonging to the page belonging to the page ” ( https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2. 10 / insights ) - including two metrics that have long been public, page_fans_country and page_storytellers_by_country.
Moving forward, is there any other publicly available way to get the number of subscribers for a particular page in the global page hierarchy, i.e. without the read_insights token for this page?
I see a field country_page_likesfor pages, but it is also not available for public access (requires a token with, I suppose, administrator access).
Thank!