I'm using the search graph API to search for users by email. Here's an example of how I do that:
GET https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=Sample%40gmail.com&fields=name%2clink%2ceducation%2cid%2cwork%2cabout%2cpicture&limit=2&type=user&access_token=...
Before the July 2013 Breaking Changes it was working fine. Once I enabled the breaking changes I start getting HTTP 403 saying that that the access token is not valid.
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Cache-Control: no-store
Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=UTF-8
Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
WWW-Authenticate: OAuth "Facebook Platform" "insufficient_scope" "(#200) Must have a valid access_token to access this endpoint"
X-FB-Rev: 798183
X-FB-Debug: lZPVbdTmZrCo+Bde/MNEXy/halUzQx7qIDW5aiZeT0g=
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:25:29 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 120
{"error":{"message":"(#200) Must have a valid access_token to access this endpoint","type":"OAuthException","code":200}}
Once I remove the %40 (@ sign) or the '.com' part from the request I get a normal HTTP 200 results. The problem is, that it's not what I'm looking for. I want to be able to search for users by email the way I was able before.
Example of requests that does work:
GET https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=Samplegmail.com&fields=name%2clink%2ceducation%2cid%2cwork%2cabout%2cpicture&limit=2&type=user&access_token=...
GET https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=Sample%40gmail&fields=name%2clink%2ceducation%2cid%2cwork%2cabout%2cpicture&limit=2&type=user&access_token=...