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Bob_94
Bob_94

Reputation: 2845

Retrieving public posts from Facebook using the Graph API

I've spent hours trying to read up on Facebook's Graph API and I am very confused, so apologies if this is a ridiculously easy one to answer.

I have an application written in Python, running on a server. What I want to do (as I have been successfully been able to do with Twitter using their Streaming API) is collect all public posts that match a set of keywords that I have.

Do I need an application key to do this successfully?

I have been messing around with https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=QUERY - this doesn't seem to multiple keywords to track...should I use a batch query as documented here?

Thanks for any advice. I really do appreciate it.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1769

Answers (1)

bkaid
bkaid

Reputation: 52063

You can search multiple keywords, just separate them with a plus sign like:

https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=detroit+san+francisco

This will return all posts that have 3 three words in them.

Public search currently does not require an access_token so you currently don't need to create an application for this.

Upvotes: 1

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