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by webjunkie on Facebook, Python

Facebook FQL Request Error

Today while attempting to query Events data through FQL, I received the following error:

Impersonated access tokens can only be used with the Graph API.

It was a strange error since I had already created my access token with the right scope. To query the data I’m using the pythonforfacebook SDK which uses https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query as the url for FQL requests (REST API).
I then tried the graph method (https://graph.facebook.com/fql) which worked perfectly, but the response didn’t include Event pictures and I really need pictures to be present on my events listings. So what worked for me was to make a GET request thought the Graph API instead of a POST.
I use Requests for this so the code is very simple.

data = db.query(Model) #retrieve my access_token from DB
payload = {'q' : query, 'access_token': data.access_token,'format' : 'json'}
res = requests.get('https://graph.facebook.com/fql', params=payload)

With this change everything worked as expected.

 
by webjunkie on Facebook, Pylons, Python

Posting to a page wall with the Facebook SDK in Python

I’ve been developing in Python for quite a few months now and the need to develop a Facebook app has arrived.
So in my app I had the need to post content to a Fan Page wall and after a couple of tests I noticed the content being posted on the Fan Page on behalf of the Page owner and not the page itself.
To fix that I had to make the following changes inside the if condition where it checks for the arguments being posted:

if post_args is not None:
  if post_args['page_token']:
    post_args["access_token"] = post_args['page_token']#self.access_token
  else:
    post_args["access_token"] = self.access_token
else:
  args["access_token"] = self.access_token

So now I’m checking for an extra argument in this case page_token, if it’s set we use that token instead of the token that was used to initialize the Facebook Graph object.
With this changes in place we add the extra parameter page_token to our attachment and it shoud work as expected, with the content being posted on behalf of the page.

graph = facebook.GraphAPI(str(access_token))
attach = {
  "name": 'Hello world',
  "link": 'http://www.example.com',
  "caption": 'test post',
  "description": 'some test',
  "picture" : 'http://www.example.com/picture.jpg'
  "page_token" : str(page_token)
}
msg = 'New content posted'
post = graph.put_wall_post(message=msg, attachment=attach,profile_id=str(page_id))
  if post:
    return 'posted'