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title: "Good to know about Facebook Public Data"
slug: "good-to-know-about-facebook-public-data"
description: "Learn more about request limits, historical range, and things to consider when using the Supermetrics Facebook Public Data connector."
updated: 2026-09-10T07:22:52Z
published: 2026-09-10T07:22:52Z
canonical: "docs.supermetrics.com/good-to-know-about-facebook-public-data"
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# Good to know about Facebook Public Data

This article outlines recommendations and notes certain limitations imposed by the data source API, which you may need to consider when building your queries.

If you’re connecting to Facebook Public Data, follow the instructions in our [connection guide](/v1/docs/facebook-public-data-connection-guide). See [Facebook Public Data metrics and dimensions](/v1/docs/facebook-public-data-fields) for the fields available in this data source.

## Request limits and recommended refresh rate

**Request limit**: For shared URLs, 10 GET requests per URL, per app, per hour.

## Historical range

With the Facebook Public Data data source connector, the data is available for approximately 600 ranked, published posts per year. This is due to the [page feed limitation](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v9.0/page/feed) from the data source API

## Accounts in Facebook Public Data

The Facebook Public Data data source connector supports fetching data from an unlimited number of accounts.

## Things to consider

### Post comment count

The data source API only returns top-level comments, not sub-level comments. What is reported in the data source UI is a total of all comments, and may not match if the post includes many sub-level comments.

### Time zone

By default, queries are run in Helsinki time. You will need to [set the time zone of your query to match the time zone of the account](/v1/docs/about-timezone-settings-and-timezone-discrepancies) you are fetching data from in Google Sheets or Excel. Data Studio does not support manual time zone settings.

## More resources

- [Facebook Public Data connection guide](/v1/docs/facebook-public-data-connection-guide)
- [Facebook Public Data report building guide](/v1/docs/facebook-public-data-report-building-guide)
- [Facebook Public Data metrics and dimensions](/v1/docs/facebook-public-data-fields)
- [Facebook Public Data updates](/v1/docs/facebook-public-data-updates)