I have a Facebook page dedicated to a web site with some statistical information and I want to publish some daily news on that page, like "today A equals to X and B is greater than Y, etc". What I want to publish is irrelevant anyway.
The problem is that I want this activity to be fully automated. I mean I do not want to click somewhere, I want this to be done from cron job. Solutions I found all depend on some per posting login related user activity.
Also, it is not quite clear to me if this is against FB policy.
So, the question is, how can I publish to Facebook page as Facebook page (not as myself) from cron job fully unattended.
My web-site is written in Django/Python3 and I know Python more or less, at least I know Python much better than PHP, so Python based solutions are preferred, but any are welcome of cource.
You can create facebook posts using the Graph-API when you have a page access token with the publish_actions permission. Take a look at the 'Publishing' heading in the page feed api documentation.
The easiest way to execute a django script periodically, is to create a custom management command and run it as a cron-job in linux or a scheduled task in windows. In this script you'll want to generate the message you want to post. Then you can do a POST request to graph.facebook.com/{page-id}/feed/ to post the message to the page's feed. This can be done using e.g. urllib2. The exact parameters and formats expected by the API can be found in the documentation (again under the 'Publishing' heading).
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So I am building a Django web app, and I want to allow users to search for their desired crypto currency and then return the price. I plan on getting the price from coinbase or some other site that already presents this information. How would I go about this. I figure I would have to wrote the script to get the price under views.py. What would be the best approach? Can I add a web scrapping script that already does this to django? Or would I have to connect say coinbases api to my Django project. If so how do I do this?
If you're looking at using an API from a service to get these prices then Request is something you can look at.
If you're looking at scrapping the data from a page, then you'll probably want to look at BeautifulSoup, or scrapy or one step further selenium
As for where you call it, that's on you. if it's data that you're always going to need, then you could look at runnning your script as a task or worker so you're always getting an up-to-date price. Otherwise you could trigger the script and wait for the response to come back. Lot's of draw backs to both of these, and I'm guessing if the site doesn't provide an API for getting the info you need through a managed endpoint they will probably block your requests if you make too many of them.
but that's a starter for 10
I am building a python script that is trying to stream a screen capture to my Facebook Page and to be able to retrieve all the comments from the Facebook Live stream real time so that I can do some processing in the middle of the stream.
The Facebook App was set up (in development mode) but when I tried to retrieve the comments from my live stream, I am only able to retrieve comments with their name and id ("from") that are made as the Facebook Page Admin, not comments that are made by other users. I need the user's id, user's name and their comments.
I understand that I need to get Facebook App to be live mode in order to retrieve all the comments with their details tagged to it. When I tried to get it, it tells me that I need to get the permission approved. I tried to fill in most of the stuff and try to get the two permission (manage_page for the comments and live video API for the streaming) but I was unable to because I left the platform empty.
Below is the message I got:
You do not have any platforms eligible for review. Please configure a platform on your Settings page.
The problem is when I tried to choose a platform that was shown in the list, python script does not fall in the list of platform.
Does anyone know of a solution or a different way to achieve what I need to retrieve?
Have you tried using PyLivestream?
It can be used to stream to Facebook Live using FFmpeg (to multiple services simultaneously actually, like Periscope, YouTube etc).
It adheres to the RTMPS requirement and should be an option for you if I interpret your needs correctly.
python -m pip install PyLivestream
Facebook Live
Facebook Live requires FFmpeg >= 4.2 due to mandatory RTMPS
configure your Facebook Live stream
Put stream ID from https://www.facebook.com/live/create into the file facebook.key
Run Python script for Facebook with chosen input
Check out the PyPi PyLivestream page for details.
To be able to retrieve all the comments from the Facebook Live stream
I'm not sure if this is possible using PyLivestream alone, but the Polls API can be used to represent VideoPoll objects in the Graph API, to create polls on live video broadcasts and get real-time responses from your viewers and can be created with the
POST /{live-video-id}/polls
endpoint on a LiveVideo object.
Upon creation, the API will return a VideoPoll object ID, which you can use to manipulate the poll and query for viewer interactions.
Guess you'll have to do a bit of digging to figure out the details,
but I believe this would be the right way to approach this task.
In order to get the "from" field when retrieving the comments, you need to have manage_pages permission from your Facebook App that is linked to your Facebook Page. You will need to submit an App review for your Facebook App that usually takes 1-3 days to process. If you are lucky, it will probably take about 6-8 hours.
Once it is approved, you can request the permission and get your application to go live.
Also use the Page Access token in your "access_token" field when invoking the API so that it will allow you to pull the "from" field, which contains the id and name of the user.
It appears pyfacebook and simplefacebook are deprecated. So is the facebook e-mail service. What is the current way of accomplishing this?
https://developers.facebook.com/products/messenger/
There appears to be links to build apps integrating messenger support here.
You can try to utilize the APIs there, since several apps seem integrated using it, I assume it is unlikely to change drastically anytime soon.
Here is a link I found which demonstrates the API for how to send messages using facebook's send API https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/send-dialog The tutorial is for Javascript but you might be able to adapt it to work for Python as well.
Here's the build for an app called Facebook Autoresponder, you might be able to reverse engineer their process from looking at it : http://sourceforge.net/projects/facebook-autoresponder/files/?source=navbar
In my line of work, I often need to look at campaign disclosure reports for my state from ethics.ga.gov. However, the state system is one of the shittiest webapps I've ever dealt with.
It only provides contribution data per report. There are six reports per election cycle. And to add insult to injury, the system is slow. Not only are you having to download a shit ton of files, you have to wait a good minute for the damn thing to generate.
This is like an obvious opportunity to automate the process. What I had planned on doing is writing a program where I can input a URL of the page that links to all disclosure reports, and it will download all the contribution reports.
For a given candidate, I would input a link to this page - http://media.ethics.ga.gov/Search/Campaign/Campaign_Name.aspx?NameID=5753&FilerID=C2009000086&Type=candidate (the view report links are in the dropdown list titled "campaign contribution reports"). I then plan on following each of those links to the report page, following that link to the contributions page, and downloading the csv file. Once I have the csv file, (I think) the project comes under the scope of my coding ability.
The problem I am stuck on right now is that I can't figure out how to follow the view report links. The system is written in ASP. The links call a javascript postback function with a call of the sort "View Report". ctl02 is the identifier of the control. It appears that the information to map that control identifier to the url I need (in this case http://media.ethics.ga.gov/search/Campaign/Campaign_ReportOptions.aspx?NameID=5753&FilerID=C2009000086&CDRID=85776) is embedded in an encrypted __VIEWSTATE field.
I installed the Firebug debugger to try and get data that way. While I am very new to Firebug, all I could find is that in the net tab it shows a GET request to the URL that I need.
Obviously, somehow my browser is getting the next page, which means it should be automatable, but I am now at a loss. I've been working this up in python because I'm really starting to like it, but everything's negotiable. I am doing this on a mac (with full gnu environment), and would prefer to keep working in the environment I am familiar with, but I do have a windows xp vm with visual c++ '10 if I have to go that route.
What do y'all think?
Turns out the data wasn't in the encrypted __VIEWSTATE at all. There was a POST operation that Firebug was clearing on a redirect (despite having it set not to clear things.) I ran it with the Chrome dev console, and I was able to capture the POST data and replicate the POST operation in my application. That got me the URL I was looking for.
Thanks to everyone that looked at this!
I've looked at a lot of questions and libs and didn't found exactly what I wanted. Here's the thing, I'm developing an application in python for a user to get all sorts of things from social networks accounts. I'm having trouble with facebook. I would like, if possible, a step-by-step tutorial on the code and libs to use to get a user's information, from posts to photos information (with the user's login information, and how to do it, because I've had a lot of problem with authentication).
Thank you
I strongly encourage you to use Facebook's own APIs.
First of all, check out documentation on Facebook's Graph API https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/. If you are not familiar with JSON, DO read a tutorial on it (for instance http://secretgeek.net/json_3mins.asp).
Once you grasp the concepts, start using this API. For Python, there are at several alternatives:
facebook/python-sdk https://github.com/facebook/python-sdk
pyFaceGraph https://github.com/iplatform/pyFaceGraph/
It is also semitrivial to write a simple HTTP client that uses the graph API
I would suggest you to check out the Python libraries, try out the examples in their documentation and see if they are working and do the stuff you need.
Only as a last resort, would I write a scraper and try to extract data with screenscraping (it is much more painful and breaks more easily).
I have not used this with Facebook, but in the past when I had to scrape a site that required login I used Mechanize to handle the login and scraping and Beautiful Soup to parse the resulting HTML.