What fields are viewed on Facebook?

Question

The docs on Facebook are pretty sparse: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/ , see "Search."

You can search across several types of objects, but it is not clear which specific attributes of the object / field / column (regardless of what you name them) are being viewed.

What specific attributes / fields are searched for for each type of object?

Answer 1

from my search experience.

• type = page search index name and description index

• type = group is looking for the name index

• type = search by name and description index events

• type = user is looking for index of name

• type = post search post index

There may be more included, this is just from my observation.

Answer 2

I think the fields retrieved with:

graph.facebook.com/search?q=QUERY&type=TYPE&fields=FIELDS&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

depend on the object you want to execute. These are the ones you can see if you want:

https://graph.facebook.com/OBJECT_ID

If i'm looking

graph.facebook.com/search?q=troy&type=page&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

I will get, for example, an object with the identifier "114198018660591", so I can only search for these fields:

"id": "114198018660591", "name": "Troy", "picture": "http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/195743_114198018660591_3661508_s.jpg", "link": "http : //www.facebook.com/pages/Troy/114198018660591 "," loves ": 2418231," category ":" Movie "," can_post ": true," talking_about_count ": 17956

obtained using (https://graph.facebook.com/114198018660591).

So I can do research like:

graph.facebook.com/search?q=troy&type=page&fields=id,name,category&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

but DO NOT like:

graph.facebook.com/search?q=troy&type=page&fields=id,name,category,website&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

also if the “website” field is recorded in some object data.

Answer 3

type = group is currently returning an empty data array since May.