Facebook - obtain location /places ID via location name

Question

I\'m able to return a location\'s details by sending a query via the graph api with the location\'s ID, however I\'m looking to achieve the reverse - effectively find location i

Answer 1

This is possible under a few different approaches. You can either search using long / lat positions and put the place name into the query. This search will search places only.

Do the following

https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=ritual&type=place¢er=37.76,-122.427&distance=1000&access_token=mytoken.

This will return ritual coffee.

Another way is to search through facebook pages using the following https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=ritual%20coffee&type=page&access_token=mytoken

This way is more difficult as you will obviously need to parse the list in more detail.