Python and Facebook

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On Jun 24, 12:16 pm, Alec Taylor <alec.tayl... at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the most active one, forked from the official facebook one
> (when they used to maintain it themselves):https://github.com/pythonforfacebook/facebook-sdk
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> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Chris Angelico <ros... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Jerry Rocteur <jerry.roct... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Hi,
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> >> I posted this mail on Friday and received no replies..
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> >> I'm curious..
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> >> Is it because
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> >> 1) Python is not the language to use for Facebook, use Javascript or XXX
> >> ?? instead ? Please tell.
> >> 2) I've missed the point and this is very well documented so RTFM (I
> >> couldn't find it)
> >> 3) You guys don't use Facebook, you have a life ..
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> > I personally don't use Facebook, but I don't have much of a life
> > either..... But I've never heard of a specific Python-Facebook module,
> > until just now when I googled it and found a couple of things.
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> > Two points:
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> > 1) Python's pretty good at networking. If all else fails, you can
> > always just implement whatever Facebook's API is (the Google snippets
> > suggest it's REST, ie all HTTP, which Python does admirably), and go
> > from there.
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> > 2) An active Python-Facebook module will have active developers who
> > probably know far more about how to use their module than random
> > people like me who happen to read all of python-list :) There may well
> > be such people on this list, but since you've received no replies,
> > it's possible there aren't. (It's also possible that they don't
> > monitor this list on weekends, though. You never know.)
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> > 3) What do Facebook think of you downloading all their content and
> > viewing it without their ads? Not that I particularly care, but it may
> > be something to consider, since you're effectively going to get
> > everything that Facebook offers you (ie posts/pics/etc) without
> > everything that Facebook steals from you and sells (page views, ad
> > impressions, etc).
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> > (Among our points are such diverse elements as... wrong Pythons, but whatever.)
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> > There's no official Python-Facebook module (afaik!!), but a quick web
> > search for 'python facebook' should get you to the couple that I saw,
> > and possibly others. The next question is, do you trust any of them...
> > Good luck with that one! :)
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> > Chris Angelico
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FWOW. I tried for about a week every Python Facebook module out there
I could find (including that one), with Python 2.5 or 2.7, and for
whatever reason was unsuccessful in uploading a photo and quit
trying.  Frustrating.