Read facebook messages using python sdk - python

I'm trying to read facebook conversations of a page using a python script. With this code
import facebook
at = "page access token"
pid = "page id"
api = facebook.GraphAPI( at )
p = api.get_object( 'me/conversations')
print p
I get a dictionary containing the following
{'paging': {'next': 'https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/1745249635693902/conversations?access_token=<my_access_token>&limit=25&until=1454344040&__paging_token=<my_access_token>', 'previous': 'https://graph.facebook.com/v2.5/1745249635693902/conversations?access_token=<my_access_token>&limit=25&since=1454344040&__paging_token=<my_access_token>'}, 'data': [{'link': '/Python-1745249635693902/manager/messages/?mercurythreadid=user%3A100000386799941&threadid=mid.1454344039847%3A2e3ac25e0302042916&folder=inbox', 'id': 't_mid.1454344039847:2e3ac25e0302042916', 'updated_time': '2016-02-01T16:27:20+0000'}]}
What are those fields? How can I get the text of the message?
Edit: I tried asking for the "messages" field by adding
msg = api.get_object( p['data'][0]['id']+'/messages')
print msg
but it just returns the same fields. I've searched in the API docs for a while, but I didn't find anything helpful. Is it even possible to read the message content of a facebook page's conversation using python?

I managed to find the answer myself; the question was not well posed and did not match what I was exactly looking for.
I wanted to get the content of the messages of facebook conversations of a page. Following the facebook graph API documentation, this can be achieved by asking for the conversations ({page-id}/conversations), then the messages in said conversations ({conversation-id}/messages, https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.5/conversation/messages), and finally asking for the message itself should return a dict with all the fields, content included (/{message-id}, https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.5/message).
At least this is how I believed it should have been; however the last request returned only the fields 'created_time' and 'id'.
What I was really trying to ask was a way to fetch the 'message' (content) field. I was assuming the function graph.get_object() from the official python facebook sdk should have returned all the fields in any case, since it has only one documented argument (http://facebook-sdk.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html) - the graph path for the requested object, and adding additional field request is not allowed.
The answer I was looking for was in this other question, Request fields in Python Facebook SDK.
Apparently, it's possible to ask for specific fields ( that are not returned otherwise ) by passing an **args dict with such fields along with the path requested.
In a GET request to the Facebook graph that would be the equivalent of adding
?fields=<requested fieds>
to the object path.
This is the working code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import facebook
at = <my access token>
pid = <my page id>
api = facebook.GraphAPI( at )
args = {'fields' : 'message'} #requested fields
conv = api.get_object( 'me/conversations')
msg = api.get_object( conv['data'][0]['id']+'/messages')
for el in msg['data']:
content = api.get_object( el['id'], **args) #adding the field request
print content

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I've got a python flask app whose job is to work with the Twitter V2.0 API. I got to using the Tweepy API in my app because I was having difficulty cold coding the 3 legged auth flow. Anyway, since I got that working, I'm now running into difficulties executing some basic queries, like get_me() and get_user()
This is my code:
client = tweepy.Client(
consumer_key=private.API_KEY,
consumer_secret=private.API_KEY_SECRET,
access_token=access_token,
access_token_secret=access_token_secret)
user = client.get_me(expansions='author_id', user_fields=['username','created_at','location'])
print(user)
return('success')
And this is invariably the error:
tweepy.errors.BadRequest: 400 Bad Request
The expansions query parameter value [author_id] is not one of [pinned_tweet_id]
Per the Twitter docs for this endpoint, this should certainly work...I fail to understand why I the 'pinned_tweet_id' expansion is the particular issue.
I'm left wondering if I'm missing something basic here or if Tweepy is just a POS and I should considering rolling my own queries like I originally intended.
Tweet Author ID
You may have read the Twitter Docs incorrectly as the expansions parameter value has only pinned_tweet_id, and the tweet fields parameter has the author_id value you're looking for. Here is a screenshot for better clarification:
The code would look like:
client = tweepy.Client(
consumer_key=private.API_KEY,
consumer_secret=private.API_KEY_SECRET,
access_token=access_token,
access_token_secret=access_token_secret)
user = client.get_me(tweet_fields=['author_id'], user_fields=[
'username', 'created_at', 'location'])
print(user)
return('success')
User ID
If you're looking for the user id then try omitting tweet_fields and add id in the user_fields also shown in the Twitter Docs.
The code would look like:
client = tweepy.Client(
consumer_key=private.API_KEY,
consumer_secret=private.API_KEY_SECRET,
access_token=access_token,
access_token_secret=access_token_secret)
user = client.get_me(user_fields=['id', 'username', 'created_at', 'location'])
print(user)
return('success')
You can obtain the user id with user.data.id.
The solution is to drop the 'expansions' kwag and leave 'user_fields' as is. I was further confused by the fact that printing the returned user object does not show the requested user_fields as part of the data attribute. You have to explicitly access them through the data attribute, as below.

Spotipy - 401 token error "no token proviced" with .search function

I have a list of dictionaries that contain album information which I'm trying to use to search within Spotify and then add to users' saved albums. I tried following the examples given in the spotipy documentation, however, I'm getting an issue when using the search function via spotipy.
SCOPE = 'user-library-modify'
sp = spotipy.Spotify(auth_manager=SpotifyOAuth(CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET, REDIRECT_URI, scope=SCOPE))
for album in newMusic:
albumName = album["Title"]
artistName = f"{album['Last Name']}+{album[' First Name']}"
getRecord = sp.search(q = f"artist:{artistName}&album:{albumName}", type='album')
print(getRecord)
I provided the redirect url when prompted after running, but this results in a 401 response for each album result as such:
{
"error": {
"status": 401,
"message": "No token provided"
}
}
I have the .cache file with the access and refresh tokens but it still says no token is provided. I thought maybe I was entering the query incorrectly, but I don't see anything wrong. This is how an example end url looks:
https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=artist:band+name&album:album+name&type=album&offset=0&limit=10
What am I doing wrong here? How can I get my access code recognized?
Found the issue; the query entry format was wrong. I found this answer to a past question that explains my problem: Using python to get a track from the spotify API by using search Endpoint
The artist, album, etc. do not need to be declared separately (e.g. "artist: _", "album: _"). They should just be combined together like:
https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=first+name+last+name+album+title&type=album&offset=0&limit=10
Weirdly, this contradicts what is in the Spotify API documentation where an example query value is given as such:
Example value:
"remaster%20track:Doxy+artist:Miles%20Davis"
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/search

How to programmatically delete an email from list of bounced emails?

I am working on a GAE(Google App Engine) based python app and which have sendgrid python SDK(v3.2.10) integrated into it. What I am trying do is right now that whenever sendgrid pushes an event webhook of type "bounce" I want to delete that bounced email from the list of bounced emails present on sendgrid.
I have already gone through the documentation provided on the official site. First I tried to delete email address using SDK and it worked fine on localhost. But after deploying it to the live server it just doesn't do anything and falls in the exception clause.
Code snippet:
try:
send_grid_client = sendgrid.SendGridAPIClient(apikey=SENDGRID_API_KEY)
data = {"emails": [email.strip()]}
delete_response = send_grid_client.client.suppression.bounces.delete(
request_body=data)
except Exception as exception:
logging.info('Exception is: {}'.format(exception))
pass
As it did not work as expected, I am now trying to do the same using REST API.
Code snippet:
import requests
data = {"emails": [email]}
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer {}".format(SENDGRID_API_KEY)}
delete_response = requests.delete("https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/suppression/bounces", data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers)
logging.info(delete_response)
logging.info(delete_response.status_code)
logging.info(delete_response.text)
Now, sendgrid API is continuously returning error 400 with message {"errors":[{"field":null,"message":"emails or delete_all params required"}]}. I simply could not figure out how to overcome this issue. Maybe I am missing how to pass request body in the delete function but, I could not figure it out.
I just figured out the issue.
It's the SendGrid API docs here which causes confusion as it is not mentioned clearly that they have a different way of calling the same endpoint when you want to delete a single email address or list of emails.
For a single email, it needs to be passed in the URL i.e. https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/suppression/bounces/{email_address}
For a list of emails, the list needs to be passed in the body of the delete request. i.e. it will look like this {"emails": [email_address_1, email_address_1, ...]}
As in the question above a single email was meant to be deleted and it was being passed as {"emails": [email_address_1]} in the delete request. Sendgrid API was not able to digest this info and was throwing an error. The email address was to be passed in the URL.
This issue has been resolved. But, I wonder why Sendgrid API was not able to digest this info {"emails": [email_address_1]}. Why they have a hard assumption that list will always have elements greater than one in it.

Need a Python script for Slack to deactivate a user [duplicate]

I have tried multiple approaches to this. Tried first getting the user without any user id - this returns me just my user, then tried getting user with other id's and it also retrieves data correctly. However, I can't seem to be able to set user attribute 'deleted'. i'm using this python approach.
slack_client.api_call('users.profile.set', deleted=True, user='U36D86MNK')
However I get the error message of:
{u'error': u'invalid_user', u'ok': False}
Maybe someone has already done this? It says in documentation that it's a paid service mentioning this message under a user property:
This argument may only be specified by team admins on paid teams.
But shouldn't it give me a 'paid service' response in that case then?
The users.profile.set apparently does not work for for setting each and every property of a user.
To set the deleted property there is another API method called users.admin.setInactive. Its an undocumented method and it will only work on paid teams.
Note: This requires a legacy token and doesn't work with App tokens - these are only available on paid plans and new legacy tokens can't be created anymore
in python you can do the following:
import requests
def del_slack_user(user_id): # the user_id can be found under get_slack_users()
key = 'TOKEN KEY' #replace token key with your actual token key
payload = {'token': key, 'user': user_id}
response = requests.delete('https://slack.com/api/users.admin.setInactive', params=payload)
print(response.content)
def get_slack_users():
url = 'https://slack.com/api/users.list?token=ACCESSTOKEN&pretty=1'
response = requests.get(url=url)
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What is a post_form_id? (using python urllib2)

I'm interested in writing a python script to log into Facebook and then request some data (mainly checking the inbox). There are few nice examples out there on how to do this. One interesting script i found over here and there is some nice example on stackoverflow itself.
Now i could just copy-paste some of the code i need and get to do what i want, but that wouldn't be a good way to learn. So i am trying to understand what i am actually coding and can't understand some elements of the script in the first example, namely: what is a post_form_id?
Here is the section of the code which refers to "post_form_id" (line 56-72):
# Initialize the cookies and get the post_form_data
print 'Initializing..'
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mxt = re.search('name="post_form_id" value="(\w+)"', res.read())
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# Initialize the POST data
data = urllib.urlencode({
'lsd' : '',
'post_form_id' : pfi,
'charset_test' : urllib.unquote_plus('%E2%82%AC%2C%C2%B4%2C%E2%82%AC%2C%C2%B4%2C%E6%B0%B4%2C%D0%94%2C%D0%84'),
'email' : user,
'pass' : passw,
'login' : 'Login'
})
Would you be so kind to tell me what a post_form_id is? And accessorily: would you know what the lsd key/value stands for?
Thanks.
I don't understand why you are trying to "hack" this ...
There is an official api from facebook to read the mailbox of a user, and you need to ask the "read_mailbox" permission for this.
So I advice you to check my post here on how to use facebook and python/django together, and how to login to facebook from python.
And then I would recommend you to read the facebook doc about the messages/inbox.
Basically you need an access_token then you can do http://graph.facebook.com/me/inbox/?access_token=XXX
You can also ask for the "offline_access" permission so you'll need only to get an access token once and you will be able to use it "forever"
And the you can do http://graph.facebook.com/MESSAGE_ID?access_token=XXX to get the details about a particular message.
Or using the api I use in the other thread :
f = Facebook()
res = f.get_object("me/inbox")
...
Feel free to comment if you have any question about this ?

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