Is it possibile to filter results from Graph API Search by number range? When I type:
fields=name,likes&q=mobile&type=page
I get number of fans of each page.
I can also get the number of events attendes:
attending.limit(1).summary(true)
Can I use math operators for this statistics? Ex. to filter pages, that has over 1000 fans? Something like: Fields:likes>100 (it’s my idea, not a code).
Unfortunately, there are no filters to get specific entries only. You would have to implement paging and do the filtering on your own. Which would be nearly impossible for very large results.
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is there any way to explore the Facebook Graph API by date range? Ex. to find all events on February?
I use following code, but I’m not sure, that’s correct request:
since=2015-01-28T00:00:00%2B0000&until=2015-01-30T00:00:00%2B00000
In this way, I get records for defined date range - ok, but there is missing events – a set is incomplete (despite it doesn’t exceed a limit of API). Why I can’t get all of results for given query?
Maybe do you know another method of filtering results by date?
thanks
There's no way to restrict the search results by since and until as far as I know.
For searching events, you can use the /search endpoint as described at
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v2.2#search
but I guess there's no further way to filter the results other than specifying the q parameter.
I'm trying to get events in Facebook that have a certain phrase or description in them. I'd like to not have the results filtered or limited, as the phrase is fairly specific.
As an example, the phrase I'm looking for is "UMvC3" (short for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3).
That said, I could run an FQL query (and subsequently enrich with a call to the Graph API, like so):
select eid from event where contains("umvc3") and start_time >= now()
order by update_time desc
This will give me upcoming events with "umvc3" in them as well as only ones occurring in the future (I'm not concerned with past events).
However, the selection is severely limited. For example, the following isn't returned in the search results:
https://www.facebook.com/events/595137740538545/
It clearly has "umvc3" in the description text.
I can perform a search using the Graph API, but that doesn't return the above result either. Additionally, I can't filter using the Graph API on the start_time or order the results in a manner where I can stop processing the result set once I get to a certain point.
Finally, there is the Public Feed API, which will give me the entire firehose (which isn't filterable, like Twitter's, unfortunately), so I'll have to filter in real-time, which could be near impossible.
That said, am I approaching this the wrong way, or is there no way to really get a comprehensive, exact set of results from the Facebook API for events?
Note: I'm using the access_token provided by the Graph Explorer in the tools section.
The description column of Event FQL table isn't indexable, thus the freestyle search on not indexable columns won't give any result.
The results you see by running the query you suggested gives only events where the 'umvc3' is in the name column, which is indexable.
The only option is to ask facebook for fulltext indexing this column which apparently won't happen. They surely won't open any column for using clause like 'LIKE' since the query execution will take a lot of time.
And the answer from Facebook developer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5824449/334522
The QuickBooks Online api supports paging and sorting results with special query parameters. Paging requires two parameters: PageNumber and ResultsPerPage. However, there doesn't seem to be any way of figuring out how many pages are available at a given number of results per page, or how many objects there are. The response only includes the current page and how many things are on it.
Is it possible to get either a total count of items for a given search? Or at least a total number of pages?
In QBO there is no direct api to get the total count or the total number of pages.
You need to use paging only for this use case.
To use paging use the findAll method(with page no and chunk size attributes) of the corresponding entity.
ex - Ref doc for Customer(QBO)
http://developer-static.intuit.com/SDKDocs/QBV2Doc/ipp-java-devkit-2.0.10-SNAPSHOT-javadoc/
(QBOEmployeeService).
Ref example -https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0025_quickbooksapi/0055_devkits/0200_ipp_java_devkit/0800_crud_examples
I am performing a rest call to facebooks search API using type=event
e.x.
search?fields=id,name,picture,owner,description,start_time,end_time,location,venue,updated_time,ticket_uri&q=concert&type=event
I have looked through the documentation and still have a few questions about specific pagination behavior of the event search API.
If I used a broad search term like "ma" and keep querying the pagination ['next'] URL would I cycle through all facebook events starting with "ma"? Does the pagination array give any indication when there are no more results to return?.
Do these searches include past events? If so is it possible to eliminate past events using the "since" parameter?
What is the maximum for the limit parameter?
Update:
As far as I can tell the number of pages you can get from a facebook search is limited to 500. This includes pages that can be accessed via pagination. In other words a query with limit >=500 will not return a pagination url, likewise a query with limit 250 will only return one pages worth of pagination.
You will "next page" until the count of results comes less then the limit
I'm not sure if that is possible using a simple Graph Request. Maybe using FQL
I don't know exactly. But i used a 2000 limit one day. And it worked.
Other doubts you can get answers testing your resquests with this tool
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
I am also doing the same thing like you. I am collecting public post using graph search api.
When there are no results available or you reach max limit pagination section will not be there in response. So you can always check for paging is there in json response or not something like this.
NextResult = DeserJsonFBResponce.paging != null ? DeserJsonFBResponce.paging.next : string.Empty;
I am not so sure about this with events but for public post i am able to eliminate post using science and until parameters.
Maximum for the limit parameter is 2000 per get request.
I want a count for the number of results obtained when i post a query. Which search API is better for this? I found google custom search API very unreliable about the count that it returns and it allows only 100 free queries per day, on the other hand Bing API allows 5000 queries per month and returns the same count as shown on the bing.com. But if you put the same queries to google.com and bing.com then the resulting cout they give differs a lot and google's is more reliable in that aspect. I am confused, can anybody help?