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A comment on Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search?.

Re:Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search? by cureyourhead on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:10PM (#12454909)
It still works. You just need to use the GET API for reliable results.

E.g.

Friends of friends

https://www.facebook.com/search/<id>/friends/friends

Mutual friends of two people

https://www.facebook.com/search/<id1>/friends/<id2>/friends/...

Photos where both people are tagged

https://www.facebook.com/search/<id1>/photos-tagged/<id2>/ph... or

https://www.facebook.com/search/<id1>/photos-of/<id2>/photos...

Photos recommended for a person

https://www.facebook.com/search/<id>/photos-recommended-for

Photos liked by a person

https://www.facebook.com/search/<id>/photos-liked

Photos commented on by a person

https://www.facebook.com/search/<id>/photos-commented

Stories or posts liked by a person

https://www.facebook.com/search/<id>/stories-liked

There's plenty of other words operators and entities

IDs are numerical

Should get you started

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Re:Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search? by Spoom on Friday September 09, 2016 @09:53AM (#12462186)
How likely is it for Facebook to block you for attempting to use these APIs rather than the public Graph API?
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Re:Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search? by cureyourhead on Sunday September 11, 2016 @11:55AM (#12473939)
This is public.

But assuming it wasn't... How likely? How can one answer such a question?

It presumes their use is counter to FB interests

On that I disagree. Yet assume that is instead true.

Even then I feel there are far many more interests that weigh on the side of using these than on blocking them. So I predict they will remain open

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