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Hey everyone, in this video
I'm going to be showing you how
to do a Facebook open graph search
and know who's liking your page.
In particular, we're going to be taking a look
at the Bellingham hashtag No DAPL Coalition.
And the reason for that is, a few days ago,
I read an article from Ars Technica
that the Whatcom County Sheriff's Department
was seeking data surrounding the Bellingham
hashtag No DAPL Coalition Facebook page,
a page with more than a thousand followers
provides information about Pipeline environmental issues,
and is used to organize political protests
and connect political activists.
In addition to demanding account information
about those who have interacted
with the group's page, the warrant seeks messages, photos,
videos, wall posts, and location information
dating from February 4th to February 15th.
Now, whether you are for or against
this protest I'm not here to argue.
What I do want to show you is how
you can find similar data that the
sheriff's department is looking for
using the Facebook open graph search,
namely how to find who likes the
Bellingham hashtag No DAPL Coalition.
So let's get started.
So, to start off with, we're over on the Bellingham
hashtag No DAPL Coalition Facebook page.
And, as you can see here, there are 1401 people like this
and 1476 people are following this.
Now, if you click on that link there,
it will show you a graph, but it won't show you
who actually likes it.
So, what you could do is you could go into
Facebook open graph and basically, that is the search tool,
the search field up here at the top of Facebook.
It says people who like Bellingham
hashtag No DAPL Coalition, so basically,
it's a very basic open search,
open graph search and I'm just
looking for people who like the page.
And Facebook says: couldn't find any people.
And I thought that was kind of strange.
So I started digging around, and I came across
this web site where he talks about
Facebook open graph now uses a STR command.
So then I did a little bit more digging
and found,
that in order to do a search like this,
you have to use the Facebook ID.
So then I went on a search to find
how do you find the Facebook ID?
And, basically, you have to go
into View Source on any browser.
So while you're on the page, right-click,
go to View Source,
you do Control F or Command F.
If you're on a Mac, you type in
Page,
underscore, ID
and then, where you find that result,
the number right next to it, that is the page ID.
So once you have your page ID,
then you can use this STR boolean search
to use the proper search to actually find
the people who like this Facebook page.
With me so far?
Okay.
So, what I did was I came up with this search.
So it is search, slash, STR, so that's the
string command I was talking about.
And then this is the Facebook page ID
and then we're going to do slash likers,
and I'm not going to talk about all what that means
but I'll leave the link to a couple of sources that you
can take a look at and find out more information about.
So I copy this, I'm gonna paste it in the browser,
and I'm gonna come up with this result.
Now, the interesting thing is that
I'm asking the same thing in open graph search,
people who like Billingham No DAPL Coalition,
but I'm finding the actual result as opposed to this one.
So I thought that was very interesting.
So that the Facebook is understanding
the STR command, but it's not understanding
the one that you would actually search for
if you were in Facebook looking for this.
So now that we know the actual people who like
Bellingham No DAPL Coalition, we can dig a little deeper
from an osint or social media intelligence perspective,
protective intelligence, we could look at a little deeper
and see what people are posting
what are they talking about, that type of thing.
But I'm not going to go into that here.
This was just simply how to use
Facebook open graph search using the page ID
to search for people who like a particular page.
Hope you found this video useful.
If you did, give it a like.
Be sure to share with colleagues and friends
and I'll see you in the next video.