[Air-L] Facebook search?

[Casey Tesfaye]

Hi all,

I really appreciate the responses and suggestions I've head back about my
inquiry about finding a facebook post.

To clarify: I'm not looking for a personal post, I'm looking for a specific
post on a specifically available page.

Graph search may be helpful, but I don't have access to it yet. An API
query may be helpful, but I don't have time to set one up. I went back to
the page and looked at all of the posts from the date in question, and I
didn't see the post that I'm looking for. Knowing that wall displays are
sometimes incomplete and wondering if the display varies, I looked at that
date on that page a second time and still didn't see the post. I've tried
to look through exterior search engines, to no avail. I've also tried the
hootsuite app, but not the desktop version. I wonder if the post has been
removed from the page?

Thanks,
Casey


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Witman, Paul <pwitman at callutheran.edu>wrote:

> Hi Casey, Ellis -
>
> Apologies if I've misunderstood the original query, but I thInk one can
> search historical posts via the Graph Search API.
>
> See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/search/ for an
> overview. Their sample query was
> https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=watermelon&type=post, and it seemed
> to work, at least for public posts.
>
> Best regards,
> Paul
>
> Paul Witman
> Assoc. Professor, IT Mgmt
> Program Director, MS-IST and Undergraduate Business Programs Cal Lutheran
> University
>
> On Apr 13, 2013, at 3:01 PM, "air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org" <
> air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
> )
> >
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:30:47 -0400
> > From: Casey Tesfaye <klt35 at georgetown.edu>
> > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> > Subject: [Air-L] Facebook search?
> > Message-ID:
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> > <CAJfzrFBR4KKyjmvB1zNwnGsPE6nXo-TzK8dorhLzu6Z6DPC0Sg at mail.gmail.com>
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> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Does anyone have a way to search for a particular post on Facebook?
> > I've tried a few ways, with no success...
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Casey
> >
> >
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> >
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:31:36 -0700
> > From: Ellis Godard <ellis.godard at csun.edu>
> > To: 'Casey Tesfaye' <klt35 at georgetown.edu>, <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook search?
> > Message-ID: <02cb01ce388e$4714a590$d53df0b0$@godard at csun.edu>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >
> > This is one of the main reasons Facebook is for the here-and-now and
> > not much else. Historical data is quite useful to the company, but
> > unsearchable and largely inaccessible to everyone else.
> >
> > If you know what page it's on, you can scroll down and let the page
> > fill with posts (hours worth? Days worth? Years worth? Scroll farther
> > back than you expect it to appear), then search on the page (CNTRL-F).
> >
> > If you know it's within your data (your posts? Your page), you might
> > still be able to export everything and search that way?
> >
> >
>
>