Does facebook have a public search API yet?
facebook, rest
Solution
You can use the Facebook graph API :
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
look for the searching section,
QUOTE from fb:
Searching
You can search over all public objects in the social graph with https://graph.facebook.com/search. The format is:
https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=QUERY&type=OBJECT_TYPE We support search for the following types of objects:
All public posts: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=watermelon&type=post
- People: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=mark&type=user
- Pages: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=platform&type=page
- Events: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=conference&type=event
- Groups: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=programming&type=group
- Places: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=coffee&type=place¢er=37.76,122.427&distance=1000
- Checkins: https://graph.facebook.com/search?type=checkin
You can also search an individual user's News Feed, restricted to that user's friends, by adding a q argument to the home connection URL:
- News Feed: https://graph.facebook.com/me/home?q=facebook
Problem
I can't seem to find the definitive word out there of the facebook search api: the api that allows you to search public status updates and comments/posts (there is a web interface for all logged in users for this at the moment).