Facebook Graph API Development with Flash

Time for action – searching without authorization

The basic search query Graph URL is:

https://graph.facebook.com/search?type=«type»&q=«query»

The type parameter lets you choose an option (as in from the left-hand side of the Full Search), and q (for query) specifies the search terms.

Let's try searching for the Packt Publishing page:

https://graph.facebook.com/search?type=page&q=PacktPub

{
   "data": [
      {
         "name": "Packt Publishing",
         "category": "Products_other",
         "id": "204603129458"
      }
   ]
}

We're cheating here; I've searched for the exact name of the page, which sort of defeats the point of a search. Note that PacktPub does not appear anywhere in the results, though – this implies that, sometimes, you (and your application) may not be able to tell why a ...