Can i get facebook checkins of my facebook page with realtime updates api?

Question

According to facebook page realtime documentation https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/#realtime it says we can get following things real time updates with api as a page.

• name
• category_lists
• picture
• checkins
• feed

I have setup my app and page to get real time updates properly. Here is my app setting screen shot for realtime updates.

Here is my code to receive and store request to database. I am using codeigniter framework.

  define('VERIFY_TOKEN', 'krishna');
    $method = $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'];

    if ($method == 'GET' && $_GET['hub_mode'] == 'subscribe' && $_GET['hub_verify_token'] == VERIFY_TOKEN) {
        echo $_GET['hub_challenge'];
    } else if ($method == 'POST') {

        if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_HUB_SIGNATURE'])) {
            $post_body = file_get_contents("php://input");
            $d['val'] = $post_body;
            $this->db->insert('facebook', $d);

        }
    }

Here im getting all the updates like feed, picture etc. But im not getting checkins update. Is it possible to get checkin update with real time api or the documentation is fake?

Answer 1

There seems to be a documentation bug in the FB docs. Instead of enabling 'checkins' for the subscription, you must enable 'feed'. Then user checkins will appear at your callback url as changed_fields=feed Then you can read the user's feed and match the timestamp in the RTU and/or look for status updates with a location/place.