Facebook Graph API Development with Flash

Summary

We've learned a lot about how to find data in the Graph. Are you surprised by how limited our search options are? After all, even the website search can be narrowed down with more options than we have available.

Don't worry – in Chapter 7 we'll see how to use a more powerful resource than Graph URLs to search and sort data from the Graph. But before that, I think it's time we stopped merely looking at Graph data, and started creating some of our own. That's what we'll cover in the next chapter.

Key takeaways:

• The basic search query Graph URL is: https://graph.facebook.com/search?type=«type»&q=«query»
• The type parameter can be any of the following:
  • page
  • post (which is the default, if type is unspecified)
  • event
  • group
  • user
  • checkin
  • place
• If type is set ...