Facebook is visited by over one and a half million people a month. Due to such a volume of information, it is sometimes difficult to search and filter data by some definite places and in specific languages.
Search settings for our Facebook API
You can search for key phrases in any language, for example, Malaysian
An example of a POST request to search for posts by a key phrase in Malaysian, similarly in any other languages:
Malaysian:
Indonesian:
An example of a GET request to get the post from the search by a key phrase in Malaysian, similarly in any other languages:
Malaysian:
Indonesian:
You can use tag search
A Facebook tag search usually returns a limited number of posts (100-200 posts). These are mainly the newest and most popular posts. Filters are not available when you send a POST request for searching. Filters are available for GET requests.
A search by tag POST request example:
A GET request example for getting posts by tag:
You can search by limiting your search to a country or place such as Malaysia
Please note, to set some place, you need to use the Facebook location id of that place. For instance, for Malaysia it is 107674002595670.
Here is an illustration of how to find a Facebook location id for Indonesia:
- Search for Indonesia by keyword
- Select the search category "Places"
- Find a page with the name Indonesia with the type: Place - Country (Region)
Go to the selected page. You will find the Facebook location ID of the country that you selected in the URL of the page. In this particular case, the Facebook location ID of Indonesia is 103728359665916. Now it can be used to create a search query.
A POST request example with a search for posts limited to a specific location:
An example of a GET query to get search results:
You cannot limit the search for posts by language (but you can filter posts by “lang” field)
A POST request example:
An example of a GET request that will provide a list of only those POST query search results in which the message language was recognized as Indonesian:
