Python and Facebook

[Alec Taylor]

This is the most active one, forked from the official facebook one
(when they used to maintain it themselves):
https://github.com/pythonforfacebook/facebook-sdk

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Jerry Rocteur <jerry.rocteur at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I posted this mail on Friday and received no replies..
>>
>> I'm curious..
>>
>> Is it because
>>
>> 1) Python is not the language to use for Facebook, use Javascript or XXX
>> ?? instead ? Please tell.
>> 2) I've missed the point and this is very well documented so RTFM (I
>> couldn't find it)
>> 3) You guys don't use Facebook, you have a life ..
>
> I personally don't use Facebook, but I don't have much of a life
> either..... But I've never heard of a specific Python-Facebook module,
> until just now when I googled it and found a couple of things.
>
> Two points:
>
> 1) Python's pretty good at networking. If all else fails, you can
> always just implement whatever Facebook's API is (the Google snippets
> suggest it's REST, ie all HTTP, which Python does admirably), and go
> from there.
>
> 2) An active Python-Facebook module will have active developers who
> probably know far more about how to use their module than random
> people like me who happen to read all of python-list :) There may well
> be such people on this list, but since you've received no replies,
> it's possible there aren't. (It's also possible that they don't
> monitor this list on weekends, though. You never know.)
>
> 3) What do Facebook think of you downloading all their content and
> viewing it without their ads? Not that I particularly care, but it may
> be something to consider, since you're effectively going to get
> everything that Facebook offers you (ie posts/pics/etc) without
> everything that Facebook steals from you and sells (page views, ad
> impressions, etc).
>
> (Among our points are such diverse elements as... wrong Pythons, but whatever.)
>
> There's no official Python-Facebook module (afaik!!), but a quick web
> search for 'python facebook' should get you to the couple that I saw,
> and possibly others. The next question is, do you trust any of them...
> Good luck with that one! :)
>
> Chris Angelico
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