I am trying to build a network of people that match a search criteria on FB and get their friends. All public information of course, or at least accessible to my own account. Say I search for the name "Smith". I want to get all the people that match that query, then search in their connections all those names that match "Smith" and the relationship to each others and so on. This way I create clusters of the various interconnected "Smith"(es).
I am fluent with R and so I tried the Rfacebook package. There is a function there called searchFacebook but it does not work anymore, because the API search was disabled by Facebook itself. for info I get:
Searching for posts was deprecated with version 2.0 of the Facebook Graph API.
What options do I have in this case? Is this even possible?
The language is not an issue, I can use Python too. I just used R cause it's faster for me.
Thanks