Facebook Graph Search Operators

Collated by Paul Myers

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Prefixes & adjuncts Time frames Facebook posts

Photos and videos Events Pages liked

Groups People & friends Education

Users' hometown Places Language speakers

Employment Professions Business searches

Relationships Religion Politics

Age Gender Links

How to use Facebook Graph Search

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 Basics, search prefixes and adjuncts

http://www.facebook.com/search/ All Graph searches begin with this

used to combine two or more

searches with a Boolean AND
/intersect/
(e.g. people who are named David
AND come from Berlin)

used to combine two or more

searches with a Boolean OR
/union/
(e.g. people who come from
Berlin OR Frankfurt)

used before a keyword in a search

/str/ (as opposed to a Facebook ID
number)

/str/keyword/stories-keyword/ looks for words in a post

/str/name/users-named looks for a named user

/str/name/places-named looks for a named establishment

find pages related to defined

/pages/ 
search

specifies that it's the photos you

/photos/
want of a searched entity

Time frames

/year/date/ adds a year of post to the search

adds month (three letters) /year of

/month/year/date-2/events
post date

/day/month/year/date-3/stories/ adds dd/mon/year of post date

/past
specifies past, present and ever as a
/present requirement to a search
/ever-past

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 Facebook posts

/id/stories-commented posts commented on by someone

/stories-by posts by someone

/stories-tagged posts tagged with someone

/stories-liked posts liked by someone

/intersect combination search example

/str/keyword/stories-keyword/ looks for a word in a post

Photos & videos

photos someone has commented

id/photos-commented
on

/photos-by photos by someone

/photos-of photos of someone

/photos-tagged photos tagged with someone

/photos-in photos taken in a place

looks for a word in the

/str/keyword/photos-keyword
description

the same searches work for

/videos-by
videos

Events

/str/name/users-named/events Future events someone is

interested in attending
/id/events (not currently working - July 2018)

/events/year/date/events/ Events someone was interested

in, during a given year or years
/events/year a/date/events/year b/date/events/union/

/str/name/users-named/events-joined/year/date/events/
Events someone joined in a past
/events-joined/year/date/events/ (not working - July year
2018)

/me/events-near
events near me or events near a
/place id/events-near
place
/str/place name/pages-named/events

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 Pages liked

/likers
people who like a Facebook page
/str/page name or keyword/pages-named/likers/

/pages-liked pages someone likes

/pages-liked/interest/pages/ someone's special interests

Groups

/groups groups someone belongs to

closed/groups-privacy/code/groups/ private groups joined by a person

private groups belonged to by

closed/groups-privacy/code/employees/groups/
employees of a company

/str/group name/groups-named/members finds members of a named group

People, friends and followers

used for yourself instead of a

/me
code

/str/name/users-named specify a name to look for

/friends
full details on someone's friends
(unless friends list is hidden)

code/friends/code/friends/intersect mutual friends of people

another way of analysing two

/friendship/username1/username2
members' relationship

friends of friends (very vague on

/friends/friends
its own)

/followers lists someone's followers

/users-followed people someone follows

/wives
see also /boyfriends /girlfriends /children /husbands
/aunts /uncles /sons /stepsons /brothers-in-law
someone's family members
/daughters /siblings /grandparents /grandmothers
/grandfathers and /cousins. Add /friends to get their
friends.

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 Personal connected places

/places-liked places liked by someone

/places-checked-in

Towns, cities and countries

/places-visited
visited by someone

/users-birth-place

/home-residents

Towns, cities and places

/visitors people who have visited a place

/str/place name/pages-named/city/pages/intersect search for named city pages

people who have "checked in" in

/users/checked-in
a place

/residents adds people who live or lived in a

/str/place name/pages-named/residents/ever/ town, country or city

/residents-near residents near a place

/places-in lists establishments in a town

people who were born in a

/users-birth-place
specified place

people whose home is in a

/home-residents
specified place

/events-near events near a place

Language speakers

/speakers
people who speak a language
/str/keyword/pages-named/speakers

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 Employment

lists companies that have

/employers
employed someone

lists colleagues of someone or

/employees
employees of a company

lists employees of a company of

/str/company name/pages-named/employees
a specified name

lists companies that employ

/str/name/users-named/employers/
someone of a specified name

companies that employ people

/employer/pages/code/likers/employers
that like a certain page

Professions

code/job-liker-union/employees/ lists people of a profession

Profession Codes
lawyers 112696438745118

Police officers 109396455744864

Investigators 143544082337251

Accountants 112926212054966

Managers 112892498724794

CEO's 112032368815466

Treasurers 112732928742174

Administrators 143418082353057

Actors 113227362021025

Teachers 108464855840777

Trainers 107738079249033

Architects 108031252558282

Civil engineers 131461013563090

Nurses 113599041983855

Social workers 103114063062534

Dentists 119880341359563

Optometrists 112544782094996

Models 106216656075289

Strippers 112231702136450

Sex workers 162282617128863

Librarians 112282248788333

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 Business

/visitors visitors, possibly customers of an

/str/place/places-named/visitors/ establishment

people who like a page, place,

/likers
establishment etc.

businesses and establishments

/places-liked
liked by someone

/str/name/places-named looks for a named establishment

/places-in lists establishments in a town

Education

schools/universities attended by
/schools-attended
someone

/str/keyword/pages-named/students/ever/ find people who went to a college

people who went to a specified

date/date/students school or university in a certain
year

used in intersected school

date/date/students-2/
searches

schools attended by people who

/school/pages/code/likers/schools-attended/
like something

/students someone's classmates

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Sexuality & relationships

/single/users/ (see also /married/users) search for single people

males/users-interested/males/intersect for gay men

females/users-interested/females/intersect for lesbians

both/users-interested/females/intersect for bisexual women

example - change genders to find straight women, bisexual men etc.

Religion and beliefs

/users-religious-view
specify peoples' beliefs
/str/keyword/pages-named/users-religious-view

Religion Codes

Protestants 106274162745013

Catholics 102144649827989

Muslims 106078429431815

Jewish people 115063718504722

Hindu 109107252447873

Buddhist 114761101868288

Shinto 112268618789811

Atheists 111235122235077

Satanists 109491989070706

Scientologists 103822469656893

Jehova's Witness 114897538527344

Jedi 108069459214854

Mormon 112325998784231

Vegan 263557043786425

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 Political views

/users-political-view

/str/keyword/pages-named/users-political-view specify peoples' political views

Politics codes
Conservatives 104082972962342

Socialists 103794206325342

Liberals 114494755234706

Islamic politics 109523995740640

Users' age

/age/users-older/ minimum age

Gender

/males gets only males in your search

/females gets only females in your search

Links

Stalkscan.com Sites that make people,

demographic and information
Peoplefindthor research with Facebook easy.
Enter a username and generate
Graph.tips urls to perform Graph searches.
Inteltechniques

Netbootcamp

Whopostedwhat

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Appendix
How to use Facebook Graph Search
Experienced researchers know that Facebook's search box has very limited and
unpredictable functionality. However, there are tricks that can be used to squeeze a
better search out of the world's most popular social network.

Graph Searching

By formulating a special web address, we can use Facebook's older "Graph" search and,
with patience and imagination, we can use this to perform amazing searches.

These special search web addresses all begin with the prefix
https://www.facebook.com/search/ and are followed by a combination of ID numbers
and special "search operator" commands.

There are two main styles of Graph searching Facebook; a search with ID numbers and
and a search with words (or "strings" in nerd-speak ). Both have their strengths and
weaknesses.

Searching with Facebook ID numbers

Searching with ID numbers is precise and will directly only on the person or page with a
certain ID number. You can use sites like findmyfbid.com and lookup-id.com to look up
the ID associated with a Facebook account or page.

For example, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/zuck.

When we look up the ID number of Zuck we see that it is the number 4.

A graph search for places visited by Mark will use this Facebook ID number and the
search operator "places-visited". The search web address will look like this.

https://www.facebook.com/search/4/places-visited/

Searching with strings

Searching with strings is less precise than using Facebook ID numbers, but more
flexible ("fuzzy" in nerd-speak).

A search for places visited by *anyone* named Mark will use the code "str" followed by
the name and will look like this:

https://www.facebook.com/search/str/mark/users-named/places-visited/
Intersecting multiple searches

Sometimes you'll want to create cool tailored searches that meet your needs. These can
include a combination of factors and involve multiple strings and ID numbers.

For example, we might want to find people named Mark who have visited Boston in
Lincolnshire, UK. If we did this entirely with strings, we might get Boston in
Massachusetts, instead, as Facebook wouldn't know which Boston we wanted.

If we added the Facebook ID number for the UK city, 106646729369602, we would get
the Boston in England. The search looks like this:

Remember to add /intersect to the end of combination searches.

 Adding optional terms into a search

Using /union will allow you to add in option possibilities, for example a search for
people named Mark or Tony who have visited Boston.

I have compiled the above list of Facebook graph search operators. Sometimes
they work, other times they are suspended. Please let me know if you discover
more or need any training on how to use them.

Paul Myers
July 2018

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