FacebookPostAnalysis

A simple app that records information about the UT LONGmemes for HORNSy teens posters by scraping from the feed.

Requirements

• Need a 'secret.txt' with app id in first line and app secret in second line.
• Graph app needs access to user_managed_groups. Make sure your app has this permission. As of v2.10 of Graph API, will need app review.
• An empty 'posts.json' to store the post id, user and time information. Auto-generating an empty 'posts.json' is on the TODO list

Installation

• Make sure to have facepy isntalled. Preferably for python 3.
• pip install facepy

Run

• python app.py

What does it do?

• Simply records who posted what at what time. That's it. ¯\(ツ)/¯
• Print to console the url of a profile that is new to the json file, aka "the database".
• Auto-generate post.json if inexistent.

TO-DO

• Retroactively and from then on, include the name of a user and a url to their profile picture for later retrival.
• Prune data when it gets really old to save on space and time reading and writing database