How to check the number of like reactions on Facebook after the Like counter is hidden

Update: May 2026 — API v11.0 → v21.0

Guide to displaying the detailed number of likes and interactions after Facebook hides the Like counter (Reaction). Currently, each Facebook post that exceeds 1000 likes will only display a rounded and simplified number, such as 1k, 2k1, 3k7, … and will not display the specific number 1033 or 3739, making it difficult for people or administrators to organize mini-games that measure reactions.

Checking the number of Likes and Reactions on a post?

We will use the Graph API, you will need to get the ID of the post, photo, or video you want to count Likes/Reactions to replace in the following link. Of course, to be able to query Facebook’s API, you will also need an access_token of your own. Syntax:

https://graph.facebook.com/v11.0/<PAGE_ID>_<POST_ID>/reactions?limit=0&summary=total_count&access_token=<ACCESS_TOKEN>

The result will be like this In which:

• <PAGE_ID> : You go to the introduction part of the page, for example https://www.facebook.com/**your\_page\_link**/about/?ref=page\_internal, the Page ID part, and just copy and replace it into the structure above
• <POST_ID> : You go to the post part, for example https://www.facebook.com/_**link\_trang\_cua\_ban**_/posts/_**link\_post\_cua\_ban**_
• access_token : You see the section on getting Facebook Access Token below

Getting Facebook Access Token

access_token is a type of full-access token represented by a string of characters starting with “EAA…”, the purpose of this type of token is to represent your Facebook account to perform actions that you can perform on Facebook like sending messages, liking pages, posting to groups through API. Compared to app tokens, this type of token has a longer lifespan and more permissions. To understand better, what App tokens can do, Personal tokens can also do, but not vice versa. An example of using this Facebook token is when you want to post articles in bulk to many groups and fanpages, to do this, you can’t sit and log in to Facebook on each page or each group to post, which is very time-consuming, but just need to enter a list of group and fanpage IDs, and then call an API to post all to this list. Or like you often see on the market, there are tools to increase fake likes, increase fake comments, which also use this trick. Note that using Facebook tokens can help you save time, but you should not reveal this token to others because they can abuse it for bad purposes, by:

1. Absolutely not uploading utilities to get tokens or logging in with phone numbers and passwords to websites that support getting tokens because your information will be exposed.

2. And if you suspect that your token has been exposed, then immediately change your Facebook password and delete the installed utilities in the browser (For example, chrome is chrome://extensions/ )

To ensure safety when using Facebook tokens for personal purposes and to save time as mentioned above, you should use the method of taking tokens directly on Facebook according to the steps below. Step 1: Log in to your Facebook account on the browser Step 2: Click on this link (also from Facebook, so rest assured that only you will know): https://m.facebook.com/composer/ocelot/async_loader/?publisher=feed Step 3: Copy the character string starting with “EAA…” (you can press Ctrl + F to find it quickly) - This character string is located within the two quotation marks ” ” Step 4: Go to this Facebook link to check https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/1162592687542047/?method=GET That’s it, you have completed the task of taking a Facebook token safely (only you know), just replace the access_token array in the syntax to check how many likes, reactions the post has above I wish you success!