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Running Facebook Graph API queries – Facebook api

I want to run the following search query using Facebook Graph API

“pages liked by people who like microsoft”

I can run this query from within facebook. Is it possible to retrieve the same information using the Graph API?

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    No, there is no way. You can only search for people by name with the Graph API.

    Docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api#search

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    I agree with everybody that there is no direct way of checking whether a particular user has liked a certain page or not using FB Graph API.

    But i believe there is a workaround for this and you can try to hit the below URL in your browser

    https://www.facebook.com/search/<page_id>/likers?ref=about

    It will return all the people information who have liked the page provided. I am not sure would this return all the results or just some of them. But i believe you can try this.

    You can then do some web scraping which will help you indentify whether ‘person A’ has liked a page say ‘abc’.

    Now you can hit the below endpoint to retreive all the likes this ‘person a’ has liked

    FB.api('/person_id_obtained_from_above/likes')

    But please note that you need user_likes permission to retrieve someone else’s likes

    Let me know if this worked for you.

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