Python Social Media Analytics

Connect to the API

The following are the steps to connect to the API:

1. Firstly, we import the required libraries as follows:

import requests 
import json 

2. Create a params variable that contains your access token.

params = {'access_token': 'YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN'} 

3. Make a request to the feed for the Mercedes Benz page.

page_url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/v2.8/MercedesBenzFrance/feed' 
result = requests.get(page_url, params = params) 

4. Parse the results as a JSON.

data = result.json() 

The data field contains a list of messages with the following fields: message, created_at, and id. We will print the content of messages.

for element in data['data']: 
  print(element['message'] 

This simple method helps us access the content of conversations ...