CODEWITHSUNDEEP
djangofacebook-graph-apipython-2.7
debugoz
debugoz

Reputation: 153

Using Facepy to request facebook data

This is probably a silly question, but I been scratching my head over this for far too long.

I am trying to request the photo information from the facebook GraphAPI using Facepy/social-auth in django.

My view has the following code, but how do i turn the resulting json into python objects?

instance = UserSocialAuth.objects.filter(user=request.user).filter(provider='facebook')
graph = GraphAPI(instance[0].extra_data['access_token'])
p=graph.get('me/photos')

Facepy seems very good, but the documentation is poor at best, is there a better python facebook sdk that plays nice with social-auth?

Thanks for all suggestions.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 978

Answers (2)

Johannes Gorset
Johannes Gorset

Reputation: 8785

Facepy returns native Python objects, not JSON.

response = graph.get('me/photos')

for photo in response['data']:
    print photo['source']

Upvotes: 2

Hedde van der Heide
Hedde van der Heide

Reputation: 22459

You can use simplejson's loads function

from django.utils import simplejson
simplejson.loads(args)

Deserialize s (a str or unicode instance containing a JSON document) to a Python object.

If ``s`` is a ``str`` instance and is encoded with an ASCII based encoding
other than utf-8 (e.g. latin-1) then an appropriate ``encoding`` name
must be specified. Encodings that are not ASCII based (such as UCS-2)
are not allowed and should be decoded to ``unicode`` first.

``object_hook`` is an optional function that will be called with the
result of any object literal decode (a ``dict``). The return value of
``object_hook`` will be used instead of the ``dict``. This feature
can be used to implement custom decoders (e.g. JSON-RPC class hinting).

``parse_float``, if specified, will be called with the string
of every JSON float to be decoded. By default this is equivalent to
float(num_str). This can be used to use another datatype or parser
for JSON floats (e.g. decimal.Decimal).

``parse_int``, if specified, will be called with the string
of every JSON int to be decoded. By default this is equivalent to
int(num_str). This can be used to use another datatype or parser
for JSON integers (e.g. float).

``parse_constant``, if specified, will be called with one of the
following strings: -Infinity, Infinity, NaN, null, true, false.
This can be used to raise an exception if invalid JSON numbers
are encountered.

To use a custom ``JSONDecoder`` subclass, specify it with the ``cls``
kwarg.

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions