facebook-graph-api-python

• About
• The Code
• Parameters
• The JSON output
• For more info

About

This is a Python program to generate a .json file with info about a facebook page or a facebook profile with the facebook Graph API.

The Code

import json
import urllib2

def get_page_data(page_id,access_token,info,page_or_profile):
    api_endpoint = "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/"
    if page_or_profile == 1:
    	fb_graph_url = api_endpoint+page_id+"/insights"+info+"?access_token="+access_token
    else:
    	fb_graph_url = api_endpoint+page_id+"?fields="+info+"&access_token="+access_token
    try:
    	print fb_graph_url
        api_request = urllib2.Request(fb_graph_url)
        api_response = urllib2.urlopen(api_request)

        try:
            return json.loads(api_response.read())
        except (ValueError, KeyError, TypeError):
            return "JSON error"

    except IOError, e:
        if hasattr(e, 'code'):
            return e.code
        elif hasattr(e, 'reason'):
            return e.reason

page = 1;
profile = 2;

profile_info = "id,name,likes,link"
page_user_demographics = "/page_fans,page_fans_locale,page_fans_city,page_fans_country,page_fans_gender_age,page_fan_adds,page_fan_adds_unique,page_fans_by_like_source,page_fans_by_like_source_unique,page_fan_removes,page_fan_removes_unique,page_fans_by_unlike_source_unique"

page_id = "20531316728" # Inser the page id or name

token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"  # Access Token

page_data = get_page_data(page_id,token,page_user_demographics,page)

Parameters in get_page_data:

page_id: id number of the page or profile (You can get this in: http://findmyfbid.com/)
access_token: Your Graph Token (You can get this in: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer)
info: What info about the page you want to get, above its write all the options
page_or_profile: if you want to get info about a page, you need to type 'page', but if you want to get info about a person profile, you need to type 'profile'

What info can i get?

You can enter in those sites and see all the possible info options you can get from facebook pages.

But, i will put some examples in here

• About profiles Profile Documents

Since the person allow you to get theres infos, you can get whatever you want. Like id, about, artists, posts, checkins, location, fan_count, genre, birthday, photos, videos and many other things.

• About pages Pages Documents

Since the person allow you to get theres infos, you can get all kind of metrics you want. Likes, comments, posts, shares, and all types of grouping, by genre, person_preference, age, location and many other possibilitis

The JSON output

{
    "id": "20531316728", 
    "likes": {
        "data": [
            {
                "id": "152917571386966", 
                "name": "Facebook Analog Research Laboratory"
            }, 
            {
                "id": "444271875701907", 
                "name": "Fashion on Facebook"
            }, 
            {
                "id": "74100576336", 
                "name": "Facebook for Business"
            }, 
            {
                "id": "114770288670819", 
                "name": "Facebook Stories"
            }, 
            {
                "id": "158736497491762", 
                "name": "Onavo"
            }, 
            {
                "id": "367152833370567", 
                "name": "Instagram"
            }, 
            {
                "id": "41130665917", 
                "name": "Nonprofits on Facebook"
            }, 
            {
                "id": "143483439014410", 
                "name": "Universities on Facebook"
            }, 
            {
                "id": "150984694912422", 
                "name": "Influencers on Facebook"
            }, 
            {
                "id": "10435416547", 
                "name": "Music on Facebook"
            }, 
            {
                "id": "125713384123802", 
                "name": "Facebook and Privacy"
            }
        ], 
        "paging": {
            "cursors": {
                "after": "MTI1NzEzMzg0MTIzODAy", 
                "before": "MTUyOTE3NTcxMzg2OTY2"
            }
        }
    }, 
    "link": "https://www.facebook.com/facebook/", 
    "name": "Facebook"
}

For more info:

API Documents

Get Your Facebook API Key