I'm trying to get the public posts for a specific subject with Facebook API en French for example (you need to change the access_token below) with this way :
https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=cinema&type=post&access_token=abc|abc&locale=fr_FR
This is not working. I have mixed languages (Spanish, French, English...) in the result. I checked the Facebook developers website and I cannot find a issue here. Somebody have the same problem?
In fact, if in the results, i have a lang key associated to each post, this would be good to me. I tried to add in the url fields=languages (and anothers words like lang,language,locale...) but this is not working too.
Thank you for your help! (sorry for my English)
graph.facebook.com/search?q=cinema&type=post&locale=fr_FR
In fact, when running this query, the locale parameter is considered. It gives categories translated in French.
{
"id": "376665779074901_525847047490106",
"from": {
"category": "Site internet de détente/sports",
"name": "Hasil+jadwal+klasemen Sepakbola",
"id": "376665779074901"
},
"message": "Hasil Pertandingan\n\nLike (y) & Bagikan ...\n\n• England- Premier League\nFT Chelsea 2 - 0 Fulham\nGoals :\n52'[1 - 0] Oscar\n84'[2 - 0] John Obi Mikel\n-\nFT Liverpool 0 - 1 Southampton\nGoals :\n54'[0 - 1] Dejan Lovren\n-\nFT Newcastle United 2 - 3 Hull City\nGoals :\n10'[1...
}
But I must agree, it's not really helpful. The least you could do would be, in the case of a user post, to check what is the language the user is using:
graph.facebook.com/USER_ID?field=locale
Apart from that, I have to say that you can't rely on Facebook's locale information. Facebook doesn't know if a post has been written in French or English. ALso, someone using Facebook in English doesn't mean he will only write english posts. If you want to find all messages in a specific language, better check all messages by yourself with another web service dedicated to language recognition.
