Kanca

Kanca is an application to analyze Facebook Group activity. Its key features are:

• Open sourced, as you can see here.
• Fully client side, hosted on GitHub pages (zero cost, no data persisted on server).
• Analyze user FB group feed behavior like most active users, most liked posts, etc.
• Analyze FB group user engagement like new users, user retention, etc.

Local Development

Requirements

1. Node.js 6+
2. Facebook Developer's Application, create it at https://developers.facebook.com for free

Installation

1. Go to project root directory, copy .env.template to .env (edit it as you need, look at description below)
2. Install its dependencies $ npm install or $ yarn install

Development

1. Run $ npm start
2. Open browser at http://localhost:3000

Environment Variable Explanation

• NODE_PATH default is src, this is Create React App standard to mark directories as our node.js modules.
• REACT_APP_FB_APP_ID it's Facebook Developer's Application ID, look at your application dashboard on https://developers.facebook.com.
• REACT_APP_URL_PREFIX default is /kanca, it's used as a url prefix, mostly used if we published as project page at GitHub pages.
• REACT_APP_FEED_PAGES default is 10, it's used to set how many pages of group feed do we want to fetch by default.
• REACT_APP_GROUP_IDS Facebook Group IDs to be shown at featured groups on group selection, eg. 1920036621597031 for Facebook Developer Circle: Malang group. Separated by commas ,.

Roadmap

To track development progress and roadmap, follow this GitHub Project.

License

MIT