Open Facebook Search – Search Facebook public timeline outside Facebook
UPDATE 17 MAY 2011: The service is no more called Open Facebook Search. It is now called Open Status Search, thanks to Facebook’s ace legal team. Read more.
Facebook launched their new open Graph API last week, and most of the attention has been towards how Facebook will be gathering massive amounts of new data through Social Plugins and how they are going to utilize it.
A very interesting thing also was launched at the same time, namely the Open Graph API. What developers and users have not quite realized yet is, that now there is a way to search the public timeline of Facebook, without logging in to Facebook.
This opens up whole new possibilities for developers to create totally new services on top of Facebook’s data. The first service to utilize this was likebutton.me, and while i was using it, I realized that they had managed to create a way to search these public records.
I though this idea could be taken further, so for the past day I’ve been working really hard (It’s not that hard really, but I’m not a fast coder) to create the first search engine for Facebook’s public timeline – Open Facebook Search.
The service is still quite much in beta, but I wanted to launch it to the world as quickly as possible. So, take a look at the brand new service: Open Facebook Search.
UPDATE: The site has gotten some nice coverage on Inside Facebook & ReadWriteWeb
UPDATE: Now you can embed all searches to any website. Read more.
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Date: April 27, 2010 | Time: 2:07 pm
This is cool! When you click on the search button, it takes some time to generate results so may be add “searching” text to it.
Date: April 27, 2010 | Time: 9:43 pm
Very cool indeed, I was waiting for this to pop up – actually thought about pinging you about the idea earlier.
Date: April 30, 2010 | Time: 6:54 pm
Very cool. How about a RSS feed of the results?
Date: April 30, 2010 | Time: 8:17 pm
Jani, that’s fixed.
Aaron, RSS-feeds are coming at some point.
Date: May 1, 2010 | Time: 12:02 am
A similar service is “Kurrently” at http://www.kurrently.com, which searches both Facebook and Twitter. Moreover, Kurrently’s results can flow in continuously, allowing users to keep tabs on live events.
Date: June 16, 2010 | Time: 12:46 pm
Great work there, would be nice if i could integrate this into my igoogle alerts, though.
Date: June 21, 2010 | Time: 3:04 am
Timo
I’ve being wondering, what is the search syntax you can use with this? For example can you include the OR operator? wildcards?
As far as I can tell, the OR operator doesn’t work or at least isn’t built-in at least for your service (as well as similar services).
Date: June 21, 2010 | Time: 9:38 am
Aaron,
The OR operator does not work as it is not supported by Facebook’s Graph API. Same thing with wildcards.
You can use double quotes (“”) to search for exact queries.
Date: June 21, 2010 | Time: 4:33 pm
Timo
Thanks, that is what I feared. I wonder if you can do some sort of post query processing?
Without OR operator , it’s really tiresome.
Date: August 12, 2010 | Time: 11:57 pm
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Date: March 8, 2011 | Time: 12:49 pm
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Date: April 23, 2011 | Time: 1:47 pm
I want RSS from search results…
Date: May 23, 2011 | Time: 2:11 pm
i want to use RSS Feed for http://www.kurrently.com/..
Date: May 26, 2011 | Time: 4:07 pm
I would like to see this linked with their location too. This could be really useful for business if their status was “I want a coffee” – and if their location was near your cafe then you could target them as a potential customer. Do you think this is feasible?
Thanks
Tony
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Date: December 22, 2011 | Time: 8:09 am
About OR operator:
http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/questions/4674685/facebook-graph-api-search-rules
It would be great that Open Status Search take advantange of this.
Date: January 20, 2012 | Time: 9:45 pm
no comment
Date: July 19, 2012 | Time: 3:01 pm
i take it now that the api is closed for public use the only way to get people public data via the api is to actually get them to accept your application. can’t get user posts with their permission even if they are public
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