facebook.search: Perform a search on Facebook
In facebook.S4: Access to Facebook API V2 via a Set of S4 Classes

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) See Also Examples

facebook.search retrieves public content that mention a given keyword(s) and for a given type. Please note that each type has its unique set of fields, as referenced on official documentation https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v2.5#search

Since this is a finder function, duplicated id won't be removed to the output collection unless they also have the same parent.

1 2	facebook.search(query, token, parameters = list(), n = getOption("facebook.maxitems"), type = c("page", "group"))

`query`	A character vector vector containing keywords to search in OR condition.
`token`	Either a temporary access token created at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer or the OAuth token created with `fbOAuth`.
`parameters`	A list of parameters to be added to the Facebook Graph API query. For more information on the accepted parameters, see: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api.
`n`	Maximum number of elements to return for each type.
`type`	A character vector containing the types of content to get. Valid content types are `user, page, event, group, place`

A FacebookMixedCollection-class collection with the id and the type for each element included.

Gabriele Baldassarre https://gabrielebaldassarre.com

fbOAuth

## Not run: 
## See examples for fbOAuth to know how token was created.
## Searching 100 public pages that mention cats
 load("fb_oauth")
pages <- facebook.search(query="cats", type="page", token=fb_oauth, n=100)

## End(Not run)