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Facebook Python Api

This document provides an introduction to using the Facebook Python API to access the Facebook Graph API. It outlines the core topics that will be covered, including the Facebook Developers website, Graph API, Facebook Python SDK, and available resources. It then dives into details about the Graph API and how it can be used to retrieve objects and connections through HTTP requests and with the aid of an access token. It also introduces the Facebook Python SDK and how it can simplify interacting with the Graph API and accessing different methods.

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Facebook Python Api

This document provides an introduction to using the Facebook Python API to access the Facebook Graph API. It outlines the core topics that will be covered, including the Facebook Developers website, Graph API, Facebook Python SDK, and available resources. It then dives into details about the Graph API and how it can be used to retrieve objects and connections through HTTP requests and with the aid of an access token. It also introduces the Facebook Python SDK and how it can simplify interacting with the Graph API and accessing different methods.

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Introduction to Facebook Python API

Social Network and Applications, 2011


LittleQ, The Department of Computer Science, NCCU

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Objectives

Learn the concepts of Facebook API


Learn how to play with Facebook Graph
API

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Facebook PY API

Core Topics

Facebook Developers website


Graph API
Facebook Python SDK
Resources

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Facebook PY API

Facebook Developers

Provide you online documentations


Forum for discussion
Management of your applications

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Facebook PY API

Where is it?

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Facebook PY API

Social Plugins

Like Button, Send Button, Login Button


Comments
Your Friends
Activity Feed, Live Stream

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Facebook PY API

Is That What You Want?

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Facebook PY API

Graph API
Response Data

Aggregate Information

Access Token

Request Data

Application

Graph API

Facebook Database

Facebooks core
Social graph
Connections

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Facebook PY API

Graph Model

Composed of objects and connections


Identify entities and relationships by id
Data will be stored with smallest spaces
and keep being updated

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Facebook PY API

Object Model
information from graph API
without access token

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Facebook PY API

Graph Model
information from graph API
with access token

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Facebook PY API

Connection Model

All of the object in the Facebook social graph are connected


to each other via connections

Objects are just like entities while connections are like


relationship

For example, users, pages and groups are objects and likes,
friends and feeds are connections

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Connection Model

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Facebook PY API

Access to Graph

HTTP(S) Graph API


SDKs

Javascript SDK
iOS SDK
Android SDK
PHP SDK
Python SDK

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HTTP(S) Graph API

RESTful HTTP request & response


Response data-type: JSON
Access URL: graph.facebook.com

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HTTP(S) Graph API


http://graph.facebook.com/<id-or-username>

Request information of an object with id or username


id-or-username can be me with the access token

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HTTP(S) Graph API


http://graph.facebook.com/littleq0903

Result:
{
"id": "1681390745",
"name": "Colin Su",
"first_name": "Colin",
"last_name": "Su",
"link": "https://www.facebook.com/littleq0903",
"username": "littleq0903",
"gender": "male",
"locale": "en_US"
}

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Access Token

A long string stands for the authentication of users


Temporary
The information behind the access token

user id
app id
expired time
secret

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Get Access Token

GetMyAccess
http://getmyaccess.heroku.com

It requires a permission called


oine_access, so this token can be valid
for a long time

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HTTP(S) Graph API

Access token should be transferred as a


HTTP GET variable

http://graph.facebook.com/littleq0903?access_token=...

More information:
developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/
api/

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Python SDK

Let you access all features of the Graph API


Thats all, lets play!

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Facebook PY API

Python SDK

https://github.com/facebook/python-sdk
Designed to support Graph API and FB
Javascript SDK (You will learn in the future)

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Graph

Depends your access token


Everyone will have their own graph, could
be unique

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Facebook PY API

Graph API Class

Fetch the graph by implement it


import facebook
graph = facebook.GraphAPI()
user = graph.get_object(littleq0903)

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Authentication
my_profile = graph.get_object(me)

Graph can be implemented with an access


token
graph = GraphAPI(ACCESS_TOKEN)

And the perspective of the graph will be


dierent

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Facebook PY API

Graph Methods

get_object, get_objects
get_connections
put_object
put_wall_post, put_comment, put_like
delete_object

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Facebook PY API

Demo

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Facebook PY API

Homework

Fetch a kind of data on the FB Graph


Do some statistics on it
Dont Copy from others

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Facebook PY API

Q&A Time
Thanks for your listening

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