Search the public stream in Facebook

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Search the public stream in Facebook

Hi,

Is there any change i can search for anything in the Open Stream in Facebook?

Let´s say that i want to look for "obama", this will return all of the obama mentions for a bunch of people in their streams, so far I haven't found anything like this, probably only looking in one user stream, but not the whole stuff.

So, i haven't found a way to do this, but how come, sites like socialmention.com can do it? Do they query user by user streams? and how to do it without users permissions?

What do you guys think?

Thanks in advance!

Camilo

You could do this using PHP, the Facebook Developers Wiki actually has some pretty good information on using it and explains it far better than anyone else could. I think it also has some examples you could use to get started.

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Using_the_Open_Stream_API

Dwayne 2010-05-27 01:46:27

But in order to get it, I would need permission for each facebook user to check into it's stream, What i want is look for some keyword everywhere, something like what you can do with in Twitter, check a trend and something like that!

camilo_u 2010-05-27 03:07:39

I looked into Google and Bing, both look into user streams in real time, but they dont offer an API to retreive it, but, I ask again, how come Socialmention is capable of doing it? i dont think they ask for permission for a bunch of people.What do you guys think?

camilo_u 2010-05-28 15:58:23

Dwayne 2010-05-31 00:50:16

Just found the solution, you can find it here:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api#search

Thanks for the help!

Camilo

camilo_u 2010-05-31 23:24:48

camilo_u 2010-05-31 23:25:03

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