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About this tool
Builds site: and quoted-phrase searches from your own name and profile link to reveal which Facebook posts, photos and group activity are publicly indexed.
This builder assembles thirteen search-engine queries from your Facebook name, username or numeric profile id, city and employer, using documented operators (site:, quoted phrases, OR, minus) to surface the parts of your account that profile privacy settings do not cover: public group posts, event pages, photo pages, the m.facebook.com mirror, the public people directory, sites that link to your profile and archived snapshots. Usernames are validated against Facebook's rule of at least five characters using letters, numbers and full stops, and profile.php?id= links are handled as numeric ids. It builds strings for you to run; it never searches, scrapes or stores anything.
Open Facebook Self Exposure Query Builder on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Provide your input — an image, text, or data.
Let the tool analyze or generate the result.
Review, refine, and reuse the output wherever you need it.
Vanity usernames and numeric profile.php?id= links are each turned into the right kind of query.
Groups, events, the public directory and third-party links are searched separately from your profile.
Everything is assembled in the browser; no query runs until you click one.
Use the 'View as' option on your own profile for the in-app view, then run a site:facebook.com search for your name and username to see the indexed version search engines hold. The two differ: search results can include public group posts, event pages and directory entries that the profile view does not show.
Settings and Privacy > Settings > Privacy has an option controlling whether search engines outside Facebook may link to your profile; switching it off removes the profile from future indexing. It does not affect public group posts, pages that link to you, or copies already archived elsewhere, which each need handling separately.
A username must be at least five characters and can contain only letters, numbers and full stops — no hyphens or underscores — and it forms the facebook.com/username address. Accounts without one use facebook.com/profile.php?id= followed by a numeric account id, which searches for as a quoted phrase rather than a site: path.
No. A post in a public group is visible to anyone, including people not signed in, and it is indexed independently of your profile settings. If a group's posts matter to you, check the group's privacy setting itself, and remember that changing a group from public to private does not always remove already-indexed pages.