Facebook API people search filtered by country

Question

I'm trying to search people using the Facebook API (Graph API or FQL, whichever works). Up to this point, it's working just fine but I can't get it to be filtered by country or language.

I'm currently retrieving this URL:

'https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=' . somename . '&type=user&access_token=' . $access_token

I have tried adding &locale=... but that didn't work either.

Answer 1

 https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=SOME_SEARCH&type=user&center=37.76,122.427&distance=1000


http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=SOME_SEARCH&type=user&locale=en_US

Answer 2

try this:

http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=mccain%20chips&type=post&locale=en_US

Answer 3

It seems this is not possible with Facebooks API.

Answer 4

one of the more sophisticated methods is by fetching data from

www.facebook.com/search/results.php?q=paritosh&type=users&lo=812057

You can also fetch data from this link but it requires you logged in

http://www.facebook.com/search/ajax/?__a=1&lo=812057&q=paritosh&type=users&__user=1818667565

describing parameters :

• lo=location point
• q= query
• type= users
• __user = yours profile user id .

Answer 5

I didn't find a way to filter according to a locale but there is a way to have the locale field with users informations :

https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=NAME&type=user&fields=locale,name&access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN