python-facebook-api

Python Facebook

A Python wrapper for the Facebook & Instagram Graph APIs.

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============ Introduction

We have refactored this library after v0.10.0. If you want to use the old version, please, see branch v0.

The new structure is as follows

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This new structure may still change.

Now, you can use base class ``GraphAPI`` to get data.

========== Installing

You can install this library from pypi::

pip install --upgrade python-facebook-api

.. note::

If you want to use an old version, you can set the version to ``0.9.*``, which also supports Python 2.7.

===== Usage

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GraphAPI

You can use the GraphAPI class to communicate with the Facebook Graph API.

You can initialize a GraphAPI object with three different methods, depending on your needs.

1. If you already have an access token, you can initialize it with ::

   from pyfacebook import GraphAPI api = GraphAPI(access_token="token")

2. If you need to generate an app token automatically using the app/client ID and secret, you can do ::

   from pyfacebook import GraphAPI api = GraphAPI(app_id="id", app_secret="secret", application_only_auth=True)

3. If you want to perform the authorization process for a user, you can do ::

   from pyfacebook import GraphAPI api = GraphAPI(app_id="id", app_secret="secret", oauth_flow=True) api.get_authorization_url()

   ('https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?response_type=code&client_id=id&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2F&scope=public_profile&state=PyFacebook', 'PyFacebook')

   let user to do oauth at the browser opened by link.

   then get the response url

   api.exchange_user_access_token(response="url redirected")

   Now the api will get the user access token.

For more info about the different access tokens, see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/guides/access-tokens.

Once you have the user access token, you can get the Facebook data. For example,

>>> api.get_object(object_id="20531316728")
>>> {'name': 'Facebook App', 'id': '20531316728'}

See the code for more operations.

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FacebookAPI

To get the user data::

>>> fb.user.get_info(user_id="413140042878187")
>>> User(id='413140042878187', name='Kun Liu')

To get the page data::

>>> fb.page.get_info(page_id="20531316728")
>>> Page(id='20531316728', name='Facebook App')

For more info, please, see the code or the docs.

======== Features

The library has the following features.

Facebook Graph API:

• Application and Application's edges
• Page and Page's edges
• User and User's edges
• Group and Group's edges
• Event and Event's edges
• Server-Sent Events

IG Business Graph API:

• User and User's edges
• Media and Media's edges

IG Basic Display API:

• User and User's edges
• Media and Media's edges

======= SUPPORT

python-facebook-api has been developed with Pycharm under the free JetBrains Open Source license(s) granted by JetBrains s.r.o., hence I would like to express my thanks here.

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