tobilg/facebook-events-by-location

It actually bring all Public Events?

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kwstasna commented

Hello.

I have one question.

Say that i have this event

Which is in these coordinates

lat:    37.987318
lng:   23.730341

If I use scan at distance 9000 perhaps, i dont get the Event, and it's public!

Any idea why?

tobilg commented

Because https://github.com/tobilg/facebook-events-by-location#known-limitations

The /search endpoint "magically" limits the number of results, independent from the distance used (larger distance doesn't guarantee more results)

kwstasna commented

I'm trying to understand how can we make it bring them all!!
Because I see events on 24 of this month, but the event is on 23 of the month.
Could you please explain to me with a few words how it's filtering the events?
Thanks a lot for your great work though!!

tobilg commented

Thanks, but you can't, as I wrote! Facebook limits the results, and it's unknown how/why they do it. Please remember that this project is only a workaround for a functionality that Facebook discontinued. I cannot work around the limits/problems of Facebook's Graph API.

Try using a lat/lng coordinate which is closer to the events's venue, with a smaller distance (like 1000 or 2000) and check the results.

kwstasna commented

Ok I will try it out!
One more quick question. When Category is going to be implemented on the json? 😄

tobilg commented

Category IS actually implemented, but it's yet missing from the sample JSONs:

https://github.com/tobilg/facebook-events-by-location-core/blob/master/lib/eventSearch.js#L231

kwstasna commented

I guess category is the category of the Page that made the Event, right?

kwstasna commented

Perfect! Thanks a lot!! ❤️