Facebook Graph API返回不同页面的不同访问令牌

Question

I have been using the Graph API normally for the past two months, but suddenly something strange started happening.

I have the following URL:

https://graph.facebook.com/search?access_token=
{$access_token}&q=obama&type=page

What happens is that when I use the access token related to the account that I have been using for the past two months, it simply does not return the most popular pages related to this keyword. This is the return:

{
  "data": [
  {
     "id": "593850270658078",
     "name": "Obama - The Worst President",
     "category": "Public figure",
     "likes": 16133,
     "talking_about_count": 27276
  },
  {
     "id": "363569443676394",
     "name": "2016: Obama's America",
     "category": "Movie",
     "likes": 291045,
     "talking_about_count": 8406
  },
  {
     "id": "524144210948251",
     "name": "Obama Won! U MAD?",
     "category": "Comedian",
     "likes": 93222,
     "talking_about_count": 17931
  },
  {
     "id": "249903348378912",
     "name": "Obama Makes Me Puke",
     "category": "Just for fun",
     "likes": 85377,
     "talking_about_count": 232842
  },
  {
     "id": "215380238549857",
     "name": "ObamaWear",
     "category": "Clothing",
     "likes": 5771,
     "talking_about_count": 4
  },
  {
     "id": "434951966574117",
     "name": "Obamagump.com",
     "category": "Political organization",
     "likes": 2336,
     "talking_about_count": 686
  },
  {
     "id": "235805483212602",
     "name": "ObamaCalls",
     "category": "Website",
     "likes": 1849,
     "talking_about_count": 7
  },
  {
     "id": "475266032570062",
     "name": "Obama, stay away from SYRIA",
     "category": "Community",
     "likes": 712,
     "talking_about_count": 531
  }, ....

However, when I tried using the access token from a different Facebook account, it returned the results starting from the the most popular page, which was happening with the other account until today. This is the result:

{
  "data": [
  {
     "id": "6815841748",
     "name": "Barack Obama",
     "category": "Politician",
     "likes": 36654370,
     "talking_about_count": 563401
  },
  {
     "id": "22092775577",
     "name": "Michelle Obama",
     "category": "Public figure",
     "likes": 10006156,
     "talking_about_count": 122888
  },
  {
     "id": "250438165090859",
     "name": "Malia Obama.",
     "category": "Public figure",
     "likes": 439221,
     "talking_about_count": 78225
  },
  {
     "id": "325578590837480",
     "name": "Obamacare",
     "category": "Community",
     "likes": 515138,
     "talking_about_count": 23672
  },
  {
     "id": "424717587573142",
     "name": "Bardock Obama",
     "category": "Comedian",
     "likes": 151115,
     "talking_about_count": 55308
  },
  {
     "id": "593850270658078",
     "name": "Obama - The Worst President",
     "category": "Public figure",
     "likes": 16121,
     "talking_about_count": 21111
  },
  {
     "id": "363569443676394",
     "name": "2016: Obama's America",
     "category": "Movie",
     "likes": 291045,
     "talking_about_count": 8406
  },
  {
     "id": "296856040436954",
     "name": "Obama is the Worst President in US History",
     "category": "Community",
     "likes": 693421,
     "talking_about_count": 108681
  },
  {
     "id": "214488188596423",
     "name": "Impeach Obama",
     "category": "Cause",
     "likes": 98256,
     "talking_about_count": 25708
  }, ....

I noticed that the same happened with other keywords that I had been using very frequently.

Can someone help me understand what is going on?

Answer 1

We are struggling with a similar version of this. We are using our application token and getting very few results when we know there are many results to be returned as we can seen them using the Graph search UI. If one person submits the query using our access_token, he gets a handful of results -- I think 14. If I cut and paste the exact same URL string (same token) into my browser, I get 2 results.

Facebook says this is "works as designed" but it is not the behavior we are seeking:

https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/161678720693595

Here is the API query string

https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=bevmo&type=page&limit=1000&access_token=REMOVED&fields=id,link,username,name,website,description,about,category,location

and what we think is an equivalent browser search:

https://www.facebook.com/search/str/bevmo/pages-named

It would seem that there should be a way to reduce the user-variability and regardless, the variability seems to be unreasonably high.