Question

Could someone do me a flavour and let me know if you also get back an empty json array when you click on the sample user search url on the Facebook Graph Api docs page.

Here is the page http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/

It is in the search section. the people link.

Here is the link I am clicking and all other search links return data except the user search.

This is what I get back

My question is do other people have this problem as well or is it just me.

Answer 1

My suspicion is that it has to do with the way Facebook filters by privacy after they’ve selected your results. Meaning graph asks for (X) results, Facebook finds (X) results that match your search, then removes those who have it in their privacy options not me be searched, and then after filtering returns what’s left. This is explained on Facebook’s dev blog: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/478/

See the following answer for clearer details: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11848002/624590

That said, it could be something else – I’ve noticed it’s been getting especially bad in recent weeks; fewer and fewer results seem to be returned.