Messaging Insights API

Updated: Mar 27, 2026

This document explains how to programmatically get metrics for messages that your business has sent or received. The Messaging Insights API is an extension of the Pages Insights API and allows you to get the same information that appears in the Page Insights tab of your Facebook Page.

Before you start

This guide assumes you have read the Messenger Platform Overview and implemented the needed components for sending and receiving messages and notifications.

To view metrics for a Facebook Page you own or can perform the ANALYZE task on, your app needs:

• The Page ID for the Facebook Page for which you want to view metrics
  • For Instagram messaging this will be the Facebook Page linked to the Instagram Professional account
• A Page Access token
• The following permissions:
  • pages_messaging
  • pages_read_engagement
  • pages_show_list
  • read_insights
• Standard Access

To view metrics for a Facebook Page you don't own or cannot perform the ANALYZE task on, your app needs:

• The Page ID for the Facebook Page for which you want to view metrics
  • For Instagram messaging this will be the Facebook Page linked to the Instagram Professional account
• A Page Access token requested by a person who can perform the ANALYZE task on the Page
• The following permissions via Facebook Login:
  • pages_messaging
  • pages_read_engagement
  • pages_show_list
  • read_insights
• Advanced Access

Limitations

• A new conversation is counted only after a person performs an action, such as sending a reply to your business. Until then, the conversation is visible only to the person.

Read insights metrics

To read information for one or more metrics, send a GET request to the /<PAGE_ID>/insights endpoint with the metric parameter set to a comma-separated list of metrics you want to view.

Sample request

Formatted for readability.

curl -X GET "https://graph.facebook.com/<LATEST_API_VERSION>/<PAGE_ID>/insights  
    ?metric=page_messages_new_conversations_unique,page_messages_blocked_conversations_unique  
    &access_token=<PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN>"

On success your app will receive the following JSON response:

{  
  "data": [  
    {  
      "name": "page_messages_new_conversations_unique",  
      "period": "day",  
      "values": [  
        {  
          "value": "42",  
          "end_time": "1665175977"  
        },  
      ]  
    },  
    {  
      "name": "page_messages_blocked_conversations_unique",  
      "period": "day",  
      "values": [  
        {  
          "value": "0",  
          "end_time": "1665175977"  
        },  
      ]  
    }  
  ],  
}

Total over range sample request

The following example finds the total number of new, unique conversations over a specific period of time by including the period parameter set to total_over_range with the time range defined by the since and until parameters in our API call.

Formatted for readability.

curl -i -X GET "https://graph.facebook.com/<LATEST_API_VERSION>/<PAGE_ID>/insights/  
    ?metric=page_messages_new_conversations_unique  
    &since=<UNIX_TIMESTAMP_START>  
    &until=<UNIX_TIMESTAMP_STOP>  
    &period=total_over_range  
    &access_token=<PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN>"

On success your app will receive the following JSON response with the number of new, unique conversations and the end of the time range:

{  
  "data": [  
    {  
      "name": "page_messages_new_conversations_unique",  
      "period": "total_over_range",  
      "values": [  
        {  
          "value": 27,  
          "end_time": "1665175977"  
        }  
      ],  
    }  
  ]  
}

Breakdown sample request

The following example finds the total number of recurring notifications tokens over a specific period of time and grouped by topic and frequency.

curl -i -X GET "https://graph.facebook.com/<LATEST_API_VERSION>/<PAGE_ID>/insights/  
    ?metric=recurring_notifications_tokens  
    &since=<UNIX_TIMESTAMP_START>  
    &until=<UNIX_TIMESTAMP_STOP>  
    &period=total_over_range  
    &breakdown=recurring_notifications_topic,recurring_notifications_frequency  
    &access_token=<PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN>"

On success your app will receive the following JSON response with tokens grouped by topic, "newproducts" and "10percentsale", and message frequency available for each topic, "daily", "weekly", and "monthly" for "newproducts" and "daily" and "weekly" for "10percentsale":

{  
  "data": [  
    {  
      "name": "recurring_notifications_tokens",  
      "period": "total_over_range",  
      "values": [  
        {  
          "value": 3,  
          "end_time": "1665175977",  
          "recurring_notifications_topic": "newproducts",  
          "recurring_notifications_frequency": "daily"  
        },  
        {  
          "value": 15,  
          "end_time": "1665175977",  
          "recurring_notifications_topic": "newproducts",  
          "recurring_notifications_frequency": "weekly"  
        },  
        {  
          "value": 8,  
          "end_time": "1665175977",  
          "recurring_notifications_topic": "newproducts",  
          "recurring_notifications_frequency": "monthly"  
        },  
        {  
          "value": 17,  
          "end_time": "1665175977",  
          "recurring_notifications_topic": "10percentsale",  
          "recurring_notifications_frequency": "daily"  
        },  
        {  
          "value": 14,  
          "end_time": "1665175977",  
          "recurring_notifications_topic": "10percentsale",  
          "recurring_notifications_frequency": "weekly"  
        },  
      ]  
    }  
  ]  
}

Insights parameters

Parameter	Description
breakdown	Dimensions by which the response is grouped. May be one or more of the following:
date_preset	Relative date range which can be used instead of since and until. May be last_week, last_month, last_quarter, and more. See more values in the Page Insights guide.
metric	Required. A comma-separated list of metrics to return
period	The aggregation provided within the since/until or date_preset range. The total_over_range value gives a single value for the metric over the given date range. May be day, week, month, days_28, or total_over_range.
since	The start date for the date range during which you wish to view data. Includes data for the date set beginning at 12:00am. Format for the value is YYYY-MM-DD. A value of 2022-01-31 would give the data from January 31, 2022 at 12:00am.
until	The end date for the date range during which you wish to view data. Excludes data for the date set beginning at 12:00am. Format for the value is YYYY-MM-DD. A value of 2022-02-01 would give the data to January 31, 2022 at 11:59pm.

Available metrics

The following metrics are available via the Messaging Insights API:

metric Name	Description
page_messages_blocked_conversations_unique	The number of conversations with the Page that have been blocked.
page_messages_engagement	The number of times customers interacted with marketing messages sent by your business Page by tapping on a call-to-action button. Possible breakdown Values: * campaign_id * engagement_source * message_type * messaging_channel * recurring_notifications_topic This metric is in development.
page_messages_new_conversations_unique	The number of messaging conversations on Messenger that began with people who had never messaged with your business before.
page_messages_order_count	The number of times you created an order in messaging conversations or in third-party apps or websites used to manage messaging conversations. This metric is in development.
page_messages_paid_order_earnings	The approximate amount of money you have earned from orders created through messaging conversations or through third-party apps or websites used to manage messaging conversations. Final earnings may differ due to currency conversions. This metric is in development.
page_messages_read_ratio	The number of marketing messages read divided by the number of marketing messages sent by your Page. Some message reads may not be captured, such as when a customer has turned off read receipts. Possible breakdown Values: * campaign_id * message_type * messaging_channel * recurring_notifications_topic This metric is in development.
page_messages_reported_conversations_unique	The number of conversations from your Page that have been reported by people for reasons such as spam, or containing inappropriate content.
page_messages_sent	The number of marketing messages your business Page sent to customers. Possible breakdown Values: * campaign_id * message_type * messaging_channel * recurring_notifications_topic This metric is in development.
page_messages_total_messaging_connections	The number of people your business can send messages to. This metric shows the number of people who have ever sent a message to your business on Messenger, not including people who have blocked or reported your business on Messenger. There may be some constraints on your ability to send messages to connections, such as limitations on how many messages you can send during certain timeframes. This metric also only includes connections made since October 2016, when data became available.
page_messages_with_business_outcomes	The number of messaging connections with at least one order created. This metric is in development.
recurring_notifications_tokens	The number of times an account has subscribed to receive marketing messages from your business. If an account has subscribed to multiple topics, it will be counted again for each topic. How it's calculated: This metric counts the number of times accounts agreed to receive recurring messages minus the number of times accounts unsubscribed. Possible breakdown Values: * messaging_channel * recurring_notifications_frequency * recurring_notifications_topic This metric is in development.

Learn more about metrics in development.⁠

Response properties

The following information may be returned in a call to the Insights API.

Property	Description
data array of objects	A list of metrics objects
name string	The name of the metric
period string	The time period over which data was reported
values array of objects	A list of data for a metric.
value int	The count for the requested metric during the date range specified
end_time unix timestamp	UTC timestamp of the end time for the metric

See also

• Learn more about Page Insights
• Learn more about Insights object reference