workplace_extractor

Workplace Extractor

Python package to extract posts from

Overview

The Workplace Extractor package was written to allow a complete extraction of posts form a Workplace installation. It provides the following key features:

• Access to the SCIM and GRAPH API provided by Facebook;
• Asyncronous calls to increase speed;
• Lists of posts, members, groups, comments, event attendees are exported to CSV files;
• A ranking of most relevant members can be created based on the number of interctions (comments and reactions)
• The interaction network can be wxported to a GEXF file;

Usage

Installation

To get the Workplace Extractor package, either fork this github repo or use Pypi via pip.

$ pip install workplace_extractor

How to use it

You can simple run a python script with the code below:

import workplace_extractor

workplace_extractor.run()

This package uses argparse and Gooey to create an end-user-friendly front end GUI application. Just run the app and a dialog will show up asking for the input parameters.

The application will offer some extraction options:

• POSTS - used for extracting all posts published in a given period of time or feed, from a given author etc.

  

• Comments - used for extracting all comments made in a post.

  

• People - used for extracting all Workplace users.

  

• Groups - used for all groups.

  

• Members - used for extracting all members of a group

  

• Attendees - used for extracting all attendees of an event.

  

• Interactions - used for extracting interactions among all workplace users. This option can be used can be used with a network visualization solution, such as Gephi, for further analysis.

  

You must have an access token with full access to both SCIM and GRAPH API in order to the extraction to work

A config.ini file con be used to set some key parameters. Two required ones are:

• output_dir - path the folder where the output will be stored
• access_token - path to a file containing the Workplace access token

Warning

As many http calls are made during the export process, your program may take a while to finish, depending on the size of your Workplace installation. As a reference, on an installation with around 85,000 users, 3,000 groups and 110,000 posts the exectution takes around 4 hours to complete.

License

Copyright 2021 Denis Duarte

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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