title: Get Facebook video views from public video
body: <p>I am trying to implement a view counter in my website for videos I created. The current challenge: Getting the public views from facebook. Since I produced the videos for other persons, thy are not posted on my facebook site.
  Therefore, the FB graph API does not work, since the <em>video_insights</em> are only visible for the pages who posted them. </p>
  
  <p>But facebook publishes the views publicly under every video. Is there any opportunity I miss with the graph API or is there a workaround for it (thought about loading the posts HTML and extracting the view div, but this would violate CORS regulations...).</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/video/video_insights/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FB Graph API <em>video_insights</em></a> syntax: </p>
  
  <pre><code>{video-id}/video_insights/total_video_views
  </code></pre>