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Sai Krishna
Sai Krishna

Reputation: 8187

How to FQL query in python?

Assuming that the user is already authenticated using the javascript SDK, how would you execute FQL queries in python ->

 query = 'SELECT page_id FROM page_admin WHERE uid = ' + user_id

I've read the documentation and it seems that you got to hit this url ->

https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=QUERY

How do you do this? Also do you need to pass the access token in the url, if yes then how ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4495

Answers (3)

Jake Berger
Jake Berger

Reputation: 5357

import urllib

query = "SELECT name FROM user WHERE uid = \"4\""
print(query) 

query = urllib.quote(query)
print(query) 

url = "https://graph.facebook.com/fql?q=" + query
data = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
print(data)

output:

SELECT name FROM user WHERE uid = "4"
SELECT%20name%20FROM%20user%20WHERE%20uid%20%3D%20%224%22
{"data":[{"name":"Mark Zuckerberg"}]}

FQL reference

Upvotes: 6

zuanfan
zuanfan

Reputation: 62

for https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=QUERY Replace QUERY with FQL, for example：https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=SELECT%20aid,%20owner,%20name,%20object_id%20FROM%20album%20WHERE%20aid=%2220531316728_324257%22

Upvotes: 2

Hassek
Hassek

Reputation: 8995

You should use urllib2, check the urlopen method.

You would need access token depending on the query you are doing, for example if you want to retrieve an photo album you would need the access token and user_photos and friend_photos permissions, for retrieving some fan page information you don't need any.

Upvotes: 1

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