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    <p>I'm trying to get events in Facebook that have a certain phrase or description in them. I'd like to not have the results filtered or limited, as the phrase is fairly specific.</p> <p>As an example, the phrase I'm looking for is "UMvC3" (short for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Marvel_vs._Capcom_3" rel="nofollow">Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3</a>).</p> <p>That said, I could run an FQL query (and subsequently enrich with a call to the Graph API, like so):</p> <pre><code>select eid from event where contains("umvc3") and start_time &gt;= now() order by update_time desc </code></pre> <p>This will give me upcoming events with "umvc3" in them as well as only ones occurring in the future (I'm not concerned with past events).</p> <p>However, the selection is severely limited. For example, the following isn't returned in the search results:</p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/595137740538545/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/events/595137740538545/</a></p> <p>It clearly has "umvc3" in the description text.</p> <p>I can perform a search using the Graph API, but that doesn't return the above result either. Additionally, I can't filter using the Graph API on the <code>start_time</code> or order the results in a manner where I can stop processing the result set once I get to a certain point.</p> <p>Finally, there is the Public Feed API, which will give me the entire firehose (which isn't filterable, like Twitter's, unfortunately), so I'll have to filter in real-time, which could be near impossible.</p> <p>That said, am I approaching this the wrong way, or is there no way to really get a comprehensive, exact set of results from the Facebook API for events?</p> <p>Note: I'm using the <code>access_token</code> provided by the Graph Explorer in the tools section.</p>
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