Facebook API people search filtered by country

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I'm trying to search people using the Facebook API (Graph API or FQL, whichever works). Up to this point, it's working just fine but I can't get it to be filtered by country or language.

I'm currently retrieving this URL:

'https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=' . somename . '&type=user&access_token=' . $access_token

I have tried adding &locale=... but that didn't work either.

It's not in this one, but I had it in there before, which didnt work.. — Jeroen, Nov 27 '11 at 21:17

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '11 at 15:50

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try this:

http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=mccain%20chips&type=post&locale=en_US

answered Dec 05 '11 at 15:50

Dawid Sajdak

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Yes, but I need to search for users, not for posts – Jeroen Dec 06 '11 at 19:07
so, use type=user, whats problem ? – Dawid Sajdak Dec 06 '11 at 19:23
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It has no effect, the results with locale=en_US and locale=de_DE are the same... (or any combination of locales I tried for that matter) – Jeroen Dec 06 '11 at 20:42
I hope, that you use access token ? – Dawid Sajdak Dec 06 '11 at 20:54
Well for me it does work I can see different results for different localities – Tim Apr 13 '13 at 10:40

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 10 '12 at 22:05

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It seems this is not possible with Facebooks API.

answered May 10 '12 at 22:05

Jeroen

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 05 '11 at 15:05

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I didn't find a way to filter according to a locale but there is a way to have the locale field with users informations :

https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=NAME&type=user&fields=locale,name&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

answered Dec 05 '11 at 15:05

Julien Augereau

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Yeah thats the whole problem I'm having, I know I can request the field but I cant filter based on the field... – Jeroen Dec 06 '11 at 19:07
I've searched one more time ... and didn't find anything more. Can't you really filter those results on your side after the request ? – Julien Augereau Dec 06 '11 at 19:13
Yes, but considering there are quite a lot of different locales that would be really inefficient, so I'm looking for a better solution – Jeroen Dec 06 '11 at 20:42

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 08 '11 at 07:03

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 https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=SOME_SEARCH&type=user&center=37.76,122.427&distance=1000


http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=SOME_SEARCH&type=user&locale=en_US

answered Dec 08 '11 at 07:03

Mohit Bumb

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As I've said, changing the locale or center has no effect, when searching for users Facebook seems to ignore these parameters – Jeroen Dec 08 '11 at 16:32

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 08 '11 at 15:37

one of the more sophisticated methods is by fetching data from

www.facebook.com/search/results.php?q=paritosh&type=users&lo=812057

You can also fetch data from this link but it requires you logged in

http://www.facebook.com/search/ajax/?__a=1&lo=812057&q=paritosh&type=users&__user=1818667565

describing parameters :

lo=location point
q= query
type= users
__user = yours profile user id .

Facebook API people search filtered by country

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