facebook

Search › People

Returns Facebook people matching a keyword, each with profile id, display name, permalink, avatar, and verified flag.

Use it to find people by name. The id is often a pfbid token, not a numeric user id, and follower counts are not on this card.

10 credits per call.

Paginates by cursor: see Pagination.

get/v1/facebook/search/people

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.insightsocial.app
  • URL: https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/facebook/search/people
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

querystring required
Example:NASA

Name or phrase to search for.

cursorstring

Cursor from the previous response.

location_uidstring

Facebook location id to scope the search to a city.

dry_run'1'

Set to 1 to get the price of this call without making it: data.dry_run carries credits_min and credits_max. Nothing is charged.

Response

Success.

successtrue required
platformstring required
endpointstring required
schema_version'2' required
unavailablestring[] required
credits_usedinteger required
credits_remaininginteger required
request_idstring required
cachedboolean required
idempotent_replayboolean required
charge_reasonstring required
free_callboolean required

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.