[Tutor] Facebook apps with python

[Tony Pelletier]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:34 AM, karthik s <suryak at live.com> wrote:
> Well, my question is simple..
> How do I create facebook apps with python. I have couple of interesting/
> funky programs and want to make them as apps.
> So,
> 1. What all things I should know for writing facebook apps.
> 2. I read that we should first upload our app to 'google app engine' and
> need do link it to facebook.. Is that right?
> 3. Actually, I am not aware of Network/ Web programming.. can I be able to
> do that?
> 4. Please do mention a couple of books (ebooks) from which I can learn..
> That will help me.



I don't know if this will help, but the Facebook Graph API allows you do
neat things.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/


Here's something small I wrote a little while ago that just grabs all your
friends profile photos and saves them with their name as the filename.  Not
necessarily anything useful, but a small example of what you can do with
it.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import httplib
import json
from urllib import urlretrieve


server = 'graph.facebook.com'
myID = 'username'
accessToken = 'this is the token'
URL = "/usernam/friends?access_token=" + accessToken

def getfriends():
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(server)
    conn.request("GET", URL)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    list = json.loads(data)['data']
    IDs = [(friends['id'], friends['name']) for friends in list]
    return IDs


def getphotos():
    if not os.path.exists("photos"):
        os.makedirs("photos")

    for id, name in getfriends():
        url = "https://graph.facebook.com/" + id + "/picture"
        filename = os.path.join("photos", "%s.jpg" % (name))
        urlretrieve(url, filename)

def main():
    getphotos()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()






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