Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search? • Hacker News Board

nl wrote: post #25

I've done a reasonable amount of work (and even more investigation into) Graph search. I believe the story is that they shipped it, and then found that the people who were using the most powerful parts the most weren't exactly the kind of customers they wanted. Since then they have been modifying the API so less and less of it works. It is very difficult to work out exactly what and what doesn't work because it depen…

Off topic: is there a way to extract the email addresses (or phone numbers) of the friends?

I have disabled my FB but would like to extract the contact information of the people I am friends with.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search?

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Post by aioprisan » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 6:53 PM UTC

webwanderings wrote: post #33

nl wrote: post #25

I've done a reasonable amount of work (and even more investigation into) Graph search. I believe the story is that they shipped it, and then found that the people who were using the most powerful parts the most weren't exactly the kind of customers they wanted. Since then they have been modifying the API so less and less of it works. It is very difficult to work out exactly what and what doesn't work because it depen…

Off topic: is there a way to extract the email addresses (or phone numbers) of the friends? I have disabled my FB but would like to extract the contact information of the people I am friends with.

Emails? No way, unless if you create an app and get each of them to follow that link, etc. Phone number is available if they chose to make it public to you as a friend/acquaintance.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search?

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Post by antmarie » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 9:05 PM UTC

Great

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search?

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Post by antmarie » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 9:05 PM UTC

Great

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search?

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Post by EpicEng » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 9:47 PM UTC

shekispeaks wrote: post #19

My source tells me people did not use graph search. Only engineers or programmers used it. The wide population is not used to searching in a structural format. The cost benefit ratio did not work out

Who besides programmers did they envision using the API? Did they expect my mom to bust out curl and start looking for new friends?

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search?

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Post by rgovind » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 10:42 PM UTC

Anyone knows how to get a dump of facebook's peoples directory? I would like to do name analysis for India and get for unique baby names.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search?

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Post by naitammukesh » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 7:13 AM UTC

sarika talam

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search?

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Post by Spoom » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 1:53 PM UTC

cureyourhead wrote: post #31

It still works. You just need to use the GET API for reliable results. E.g. Friends of friends /friends/friends" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/search/ /friends/friends Mutual friends of two people /friends/ /friends/intersect" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/search/ /friends/ /friends/... Photos where both people are tagged /photos-tagged/ /photos-tagged/intersect" rel="nofollow">https://www.faceboo…

How likely is it for Facebook to block you for attempting to use these APIs rather than the public Graph API?