Facebook FQL: Get checkins within range

Question

Is there a way to use FQL to select all my friends Checkins that are in range of a specified location? I can use FQL to return my friends checkin coords:

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Answer 1

So there's some undocumented function called distance() that might help you, although it doesn't work so well (especially since it's limited to 50km radius):

SELECT coords, author_uid, tagged_uids, target_id, message FROM checkin WHERE target_id IN
(SELECT page_id FROM place WHERE distance(latitude, longitude, "37.75377496892", "-122.42077080676") < 50000)

Max is 50,000 meters, which is the output unit of FQL's (apparently undocumented) distancefunction.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/checkin/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/place