How can we track hashtags with the new facebook hashtag implementation

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Shawn Mohammed picture Shawn Mohammed · Jun 14, 2013 · Viewed 55.2k times · Source

Since Facebook introduced hashtags, I've been interested in finding out more about them. Can someone point me in the direction of possibly tracking the hashtags similar to how twitter allows us access to pull hashtag data via their API. I can count mentions, get usernames, and the tweets. Has Facebook launched anything similar? I can't find any documentation online.

Answer

Igy picture Igy · Jun 14, 2013

There is currently no API for the hashtags feature on Facebook

edit: there was however a public posts search function which will return some public posts with a certain hashtag if you use that hashtag as the search string in API version 1.0 - there is no equivalent in version 2.0 onwards

It ignores the # symbol in the matching though, so a search for '#omg' will find posts with 'omg' too.

See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/v1.0#search )

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