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Reputation: 35

Get facebook posts by hashtags

I've been spending 2 days on Google, looking for a way to retrieve Facebook posts by hashtag. I already know that the API doesn't allow anything with hashtags and I find it stupid, but that's it.

Now what I want to try is to get those posts through curl, but I'm not that good at it. Let's say for example that you want all public posts containing #baseball. When you're logged in, you can see them there: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/baseball So basically, I want to curl that URL to get the posts. But of course it doesn't work... Here is the script I use:

        $url = 'https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/baseball';
        $http = curl_init($url);
        $fake_user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3';
        curl_setopt($http, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $fake_user_agent);
        $result = curl_exec($http);

As you can imagine, $result is empty... I've tried to get an access token before doing that, but even though I add it to the URL, it doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8638

Answers (1)

APCOM
APCOM

Reputation: 36

Use this URL: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=YOURHASHTAGWITHNO#&type=post&limit=999&access_token=YOURMEGATOKENHERE

Use Facebook SDK + Facebook APP creator with API ID and secret to generate token.

Upvotes: 2

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