Hi all, I really appreciate the responses and suggestions I've head back about my inquiry about finding a facebook post. To clarify: I'm not looking for a personal post, I'm looking for a specific post on a specifically available page. Graph search may be helpful, but I don't have access to it yet. An API query may be helpful, but I don't have time to set one up. I went back to the page and looked at all of the posts from the date in question, and I didn't see the post that I'm looking for. Knowing that wall displays are sometimes incomplete and wondering if the display varies, I looked at that date on that page a second time and still didn't see the post. I've tried to look through exterior search engines, to no avail. I've also tried the hootsuite app, but not the desktop version. I wonder if the post has been removed from the page? Thanks, Casey On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Witman, Paul <pwitman@callutheran.edu>wrote:

Hi Casey, Ellis -

Apologies if I've misunderstood the original query, but I thInk one can search historical posts via the Graph Search API.

See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/search/ for an overview. Their sample query was https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=watermelon&type=post, and it seemed to work, at least for public posts.

Best regards, Paul

Paul Witman Assoc. Professor, IT Mgmt Program Director, MS-IST and Undergraduate Business Programs Cal Lutheran University

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Hi there,

Does anyone have a way to search for a particular post on Facebook? I've tried a few ways, with no success...

Thanks!

Casey

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Message: 2 Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:31:36 -0700 From: Ellis Godard <ellis.godard@csun.edu> To: 'Casey Tesfaye' <klt35@georgetown.edu>, <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook search? Message-ID: <02cb01ce388e$4714a590$d53df0b0$@godard@csun.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

This is one of the main reasons Facebook is for the here-and-now and not much else. Historical data is quite useful to the company, but unsearchable and largely inaccessible to everyone else.

If you know what page it's on, you can scroll down and let the page fill with posts (hours worth? Days worth? Years worth? Scroll farther back than you expect it to appear), then search on the page (CNTRL-F).

If you know it's within your data (your posts? Your page), you might still be able to export everything and search that way?