Does facebook API allow searches on profile, networks, employer, school info in the account?

Question

Does facebook API allow searches on profile, networks, employer, school info in the account?

Answer 1

If you can develop an app which can request user_education_history and user_work_history from the users and your users give permissions then you have the information you are looking for. Otherwise you can't get those info directly.

Usually when a user allows you to access their basic information in an auth dialog (of your app), you have access to their user id, name, profile picture, gender, age range, locale, networks, list of friends, and any other information they have made public.

To get access to any additional information about the user or their friends you need to ask for specific permissions from the user.

You need to know more about permissions and how to ask for more permissions through Auth Dialogue and then decide yourself that whether facebook api allows it (to access user's education history, work history etc) or not.

Answer 2

This part of the documentation details searching.

It states that:

You can search over all public objects in the social graph

as work and education details require extra permission to read, they aren't public objects and so can't be searched on.