FacebookGraphAPI-Examples

Examples this repository contains

• Python script to create a likes-counter of your timeline posts.
• Python script to share your post to multiple groups at once! Click here to see details
• Python script to create a Word-Cloud of your FB timeline.

Requirements

• Python 2.X
• Python Facebook-SDK

  pip install facebook-sdk

• Python requests module

  pip install requests

• For Likes-counter program:
  • tqdm (for progress bar) > pip install tqdm
  • tabulate (for fancy table) > pip install tabulate
• For multiple groups post sharer program:
  • Beautiful Soup (for scraping the user groups from web) > pip install bs4
  • Selenium (for scraping the user groups from web) > pip install selenium
• For timeline wordcloud program:
  • WordCloud > pip install wordcloud
  • PIL > pip install Pillow
  • Numpy > pip install numpy
• Facebook app user access token.(See the steps below to get a token)

Getting a User Access Token

• Create a Facebook App which will be used to access Facebook's Graph API.

• Go to Facebook Apps dashboard -> Click Add a New App -> Choose platform WWW -> Choose a new name for your app -> Click Create New Facebook App ID -> Create a New App ID -> Choose Category -> Click Create App ID again.

• Go back to Apps dashboard -> Select the new app -> Settings -> Basic -> Enter Contact Email. This is required to take your app out of the sandbox.

• Go to App Review -> Do you want to make this app and all its live features available to the general public? -> Toggle the button to Yes -> Make App Public? -> Yes. This will enable others to see posts by your app in their timelines - otherwise, only you will see the wall posts by the app. Now,you should see a green dot next to app's name, and the text This app is public and available to all users.

• Make a note of the App ID and App Secret (Click Show next to it; you will be asked to re-enter your Facebook password).

• Now,go to Graph API Explorer -> In the Application drop down -> Select the app created in Step 2 -> Click Get Access Token -> In Permissions popup go to Extended Permissions tab -> Select the permissions you want -> Click Get Access Token

• Make a note of the short-lived token shown in Graph API Explorer. Facebook has deprecated offline access, the next best thing is long-lived token which expires in 60 days. We will convert the short-lived access token noted above to a long-lived token.

• For that, fill in the values in the URL below and open it in a browser:

  https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token? client_id={APP_ID}& client_secret={APP_SECRET}& grant_type=fb_exchange_token& fb_exchange_token={EXISTING_ACCESS_TOKEN}

• You should see access_token={...}&expires={...}. This new access_token is the long-lived token you can use in your Python script.