Question

I am looking for a way to query facebook pages that for example, have something to do with food.

Not to difficult 😉

$pages = $facebook->api('search?q=food&type=page');

But… I want to get the largest pages (most likes) of that category. Search get’s close, but I can’t influence the return order (I think).

I have been looking here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/page/
to see if I can get it to work with a query, but it seems I can only query information about a specific page.

I have been looking for several solutions without succes. Is this even possible at all? Any help would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

How about this:

Make that request to “search?q=food&type=page“, then take the results and iterate over them.

For each result make the following FQL query:

SELECT 
    name, username, fan_count 
FROM 
    page 
WHERE 
    page_id="ITERATION_PAGE_ID"

For example, the first result I get has the id “25255939006”, the FQL will be:

SELECT name, username, fan_count FROM page WHERE
page_id=”25255939006″

And the result is:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "name": "Food", 
      "username": "", 
      "fan_count": 146291
    }
  ]
}

Hope this is what you were after.