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falomir
falomir

Reputation: 1169

Facebook Graph API "search" by email suddenly stopped working

We have an application that issue search requests (FB Graph API) using an email address as the main query parameter, so basically we are searching users by email (e.g. /[email protected]&type=user). Everything was working perfect until yesterday when suddenly we started to get 0 results from that request. We are not aware if something has changed on the way the search API works, or if without previous notice that feature is not supported anymore. Does anybody else has had the same issue, or has any info about it?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 11490

Answers (3)

Smit
Smit

Reputation: 1569

This functionality was deprecated because of low utilization, and they have no current plans to re-enable it. Have a look

https://developers.facebook.com/x/bugs/453298034751100/

Upvotes: 1

Baris Yesugey
Baris Yesugey

Reputation: 104

This was a bug (https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/292220680814266) and should now be resolved. Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

DMCS
DMCS

Reputation: 31880

I looked thru Facebook's documentation and they don't have specified you can search by email address, only by name. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/ (see the searching section).

Where did you find in their documentation you can search by email address? Can you send me a link?

I'm really thinking someone hacked into that feature and now Facebook considers it a security hole, and they plugged it.

Upvotes: 0

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