Get public post from Facebook's Graph Search API

Question

I am new to Facebook APIs. I am using Graph Search API and want to get public post such as comments, status updates who are having conversation about an object (could be a thing, location, personality etc).

I have valid access token with me.

Is it possible? How?

Any solution is welcome.

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

UPDATE:

Public post search is no longer available from API version >=2.0.

Please refer to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v2.0#search

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Original Answer:

Yes, of course it's possible.

You can search over all public objects (posts, users, pages, groups) using:

https://graph.facebook.com/search?access_token=<token>q=QUERY&type=OBJECT_TYPE 

Facebook search API is pretty easy to use. I would suggest you to read the documentation for the Search API. I will also recommend using Graph API Explorer for trying out your queries.

Answer 2

Post search is not directly supported, instead you should use this call:

https://graph.facebook.com/v2.3/12345678912345?fields=posts.limit(5)

You can use that call with access token from the graph explorer, where the long number represents a page ID

Answer 3

As an update, I would mention that public post search are no longer available from API version >=2.0.

See docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v2.0#search

Answer 4

I can get this to work but I have NEWT level question;

If I search for q=101class&type=post then it gives me a response of data[].

However if I put in text ONLY such as q=apples&type=post it works fine.