def parse_publication(self, fbid, since="", until="", limit=50):
# fbid : Facebook ID of the user we want to parse
# since : Date to crawl since (use unixtime) (OPTIONAL)
# until : Date to crawl until (use unixtime) (OPTIONAL)
# limit : How many publications to get by request. Max. 5000 (OPTIONAL)
params = [self.__access_token, "limit=" + str(limit)]
if since != "":
params.append("since=" + since)
if until != "":
params.append("until=" + until)
completeurl = urlcreator("https", self.__api_url, fbid + r"/feed", params)
msg = backoff(completeurl, self.__attemps)
response = json.loads(msg)
data = {} # objectfor variables 'data' and 'paging'
data["data"] = []
if "data" in response:
x = 0
for i in response["data"]:
data["data"].append({})
data["data"][x]["id"] = i["id"]
data["data"][x]["from"] = i["from"]["id"]
data["data"][x]["type"] = i["type"]
data["data"][x]["time"] = i["created_time"]
data["data"][x]["comments"] = i["comments"]["count"]
if "likes" in i:
data["data"][x]["likes"] = i["likes"]["count"]
else:
data["data"][x]["likes"] = 0
if "link" in i:
data["data"][x]["link"] = i["link"]
else:
data["data"][x]["link"] = r"http://www.facebook.com/" + data["data"][x]["from"]
if "message" in i:
data["data"][x]["message"] = i["message"]
else:
data["data"][x]["message"] = i["type"]
self.__num_feeds += 1
x += 1
if "paging" in response: # There's more pages for this request
data["paging"] = response["paging"]
else:
data["paging"] = {}
return data
def batch_request(self, json_array):
# json_array : Json array which contains all the requests for doing a batch request.
msg = backoff(
r"https://"
+ self.__api_url
+ r"/?batch="
+ json.dumps(json_array)
+ r"&"
+ self.__access_token
+ r"&method=post",
self.__attemps,
)
response = json.loads(msg)
res = []
for i in range(len(response)):
res[i] = {}
if response[i]["code"] == 200:
res[i]["id"] = response[i]["body"]["id"]
res[i]["name"] = response[i]["body"]["name"]
res[i]["gender"] = response[i]["body"]["gender"]
res[i]["locale"] = response[i]["body"]["locale"]
return res
def parse_user(self, userid):
# userid : Facebook User ID
msg = backoff(r"http://graph.facebook.com/" + userid, self.__attemps)
response = json.loads(msg)
return response