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RParadox
RParadox

Reputation: 6851

Posting to Facebook wall

This has been asked several times, but after reading many different posts I still have not a basic version running for posting to a wall.

I want to post to a wall of a FB user with python. The PHP SDK (https://github.com/facebook/facebook-php-sdk) uses this as the first example. I need the equivalent code in python.

require 'facebook-php-sdk/src/facebook.php';

$facebook = new Facebook(array(
  'appId'  => 'YOUR_APP_ID',
  'secret' => 'YOUR_APP_SECRET',
));

// Get User ID
$user = $facebook->getUser();

The pythonsdk (https://github.com/pythonforfacebook/facebook-sdk) says the basic usage is:

graph = facebook.GraphAPI(oauth_access_token)

Without explaining what that the oauth_access_token is.

According to here: Python - Facebook API - Need a working example one has to generate an access token?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 8054

Answers (1)

dom
dom

Reputation: 876

An access token is used to authorize your application to do stuff on the users behalf. There are several ways (also referred to as "flows") to get such a token, you can read up on it here: Facebook Developers Access Tokens. Facebook provides a tool for generating test tokens, you can find it here: Facebook Developers Access Token Tool.

Install facebook module by running the below command (if it isn't installed).

  pip install facebook-sdk

Generate a token and run this code to post on your wall:

import facebook

ACCESS_TOKEN = "<your access token>"; # do not forget to add access token here
graph = facebook.GraphAPI(ACCESS_TOKEN)
graph.put_object("me", "feed", message="Hello, World!")

Upvotes: 5

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