Getting the facebook graph to only return results with a # symbol in it

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Any one have any ideas on how to accomplish this?

I have tried

https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=%22%23apple%22
https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=%23apple
https://graph.facebook.com/search?q#apple

which does not work.

To be clear the results should only have posts that contain #apple not "apple".

None of the results in the second one return #apple, they return just apple. — jlarry, Dec 21 '12 at 19:13
do you have an example of some post or something you expect it to find ? (the id would help) — Aviram Segal, Dec 21 '12 at 19:16
Use - https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=%2326acts It returns posts that have #26acts and without the #. We want to be able to return only posts that match "#26acts" post id example - 107030249319841_100393446801425 — jlarry, Dec 21 '12 at 19:41
It seems facebook ignores that # but I can't find it documented anywhere — Aviram Segal, Dec 21 '12 at 20:38
Yeah, we are trying to find a work around outside of harassing FB to add the feature in. — jlarry, Dec 21 '12 at 21:09

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 04 '13 at 14:07

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Facebook says this is not supported at this time: https://developers.facebook.com/x/bugs/313941462054417/

answered Oct 04 '13 at 14:07

Karen Colpitts

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 01 '13 at 15:01

if you're trying to get the #hashtags from Facebook, currently, there is no api for this. and even if there were- the posts are not intermediate, they are being cached. you won't see the most recent hashtag from a person who's not in your friendlist right away, this will take a long time to appear in the hashtag search

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 05 '14 at 15:19

I've read too that it's not supported but,

trying the second line of jlarry

https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=%23apple

in Graph API Explorer, it works. obviously the query is on the posts set as public.

so the query could be something like this

https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=%23joviberton‬&type=post

for further ops check https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/

Getting the facebook graph to only return results with a # symbol in it

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