Does facebook have a public search API?

Question

It seems that I did not find the final word for searching on facebook api: api, which allows you to search for public status updates and comments / messages (there is a web interface for all registered users for this at the moment).

Answer 1

You can use the Facebook graphical API:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/

find the search section,

QUOTE from fb:

Search

You can search all publicly accessible objects in a social graph using https://graph.facebook.com/search . Format:

https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=QUERY&type=OBJECT_TYPE We support the search for the following types of objects:

All public posts: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=watermelon&type=post

• People: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=mark&type=user
• Pages: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=platform&type=page
• Events: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=conference&type=event
• Groups: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=programming&type=group
• Places: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=coffee&type=place¢er=37.76,122.427&distance=1000
• Refunds: https://graph.facebook.com/search?type=checkin

You can also find an individual user news feed restricted to this user friends by adding the q argument to the home connection URL:

• News Feed: https://graph.facebook.com/me/home?q=facebook

Answer 2

Facebook Public mail search is no longer available in Graph API version 2.0: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog

Answer 3

Better Use Facebook PHP SDK

-> Search for any term using facebook php sdk.

$mySrch = $facebook->api('/search?q=YOUR WORD&type=TYPES'); 

VARIOUS TYPES, you can search:

• after
• User
• event
• groups
• a place
• arrival

Answer 4

One mistake I recently noticed is that you cannot assume that you will only receive Facebook pages when searching for pages on Facebook. Sometimes Facebook groups are included in the results without a method for decoding between them. Just a head!