July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
312 pages
7h 27m
English
In the first step, we will define Facebook endpoints, which will be used to retrieve the data from Facebook. We need two different endpoints in order to be able to extract all the posts and comments from the Google Facebook page. Creation of an access token was explained in Chapter 2, Harnessing Social Data - Connecting, Capturing, and Cleaning and it is a prerequisite for connection to the Graph API. The access token should be stored in a dictionary params under a key access token.
The first endpoint will be used to extract all the posts:
page_url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/v2.8/Google/feed?fields=id,message,reactions,shares,from,caption,created_time,likes.summary(true)'
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