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Facebook docs are quite sparse on this: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/, see "Searching".

It is possible to search against several object types, but it is not clear which specific object attributes / fields / columns (whatever you call them) are being searched.

Which specific attributes / fields are being searched for each object type?

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from my experience with search api.

  • type=pages searches index of name and description

  • type=group searches index of name

  • type=event searches index of name and description

  • type=user searches index of name

  • type=post searches index of message

There maybe more included, these are just from my observation.

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I think that the fields extractable with:


are depending on the object you want to search. They are those you can see if you request:


If I search


I will obtain for example the object with ID "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", "likes": 2418231, "category": "Movie", "can_post": true, "talking_about_count": 17956

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

Therefore I can do a research like:


but NOT like:


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

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type=group currently returns an empty data array since May.

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