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"""

A simple example script to get all posts on a user's timeline.

Originally created by Mitchell Stewart.

<https://gist.github.com/mylsb/10294040>

"""

import facebook

import requests

def some_action(post):

""" Here you might want to do something with each post. E.g. grab the

post's message (post['message']) or the post's picture (post['picture']).

In this implementation we just print the post's created time.

"""

print(post['created_time'])

# You'll need an access token here to do anything. You can get a temporary one

# here: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/

access_token = 'CAAHPNmH9dEUBAJ53c9925baOfzbjsCmaAujxZBSEBBpIKqxBwyqBTDMsQSZCsfxReqDlAIsyAWC6ZCtLMibt5G6AcHy2nDb2IC4pvFz0SMJWpnMJol3Rzvt80PKNz9IYGDHfNZBQTF3VhI36yDE8qiI2EzTK7LKuNLBEq3AugsSgXdFGtKcbP2UOtoZCZBaRSZBxHzph5yOmV5yflsJ5258'

# Look at Bill Gates's profile for this example by using his Facebook id.

user = 'BillGates'

graph = facebook.GraphAPI(access_token)

profile = graph.get_object(user)

posts = graph.get_connections(profile['id'], 'posts')

# Wrap this block in a while loop so we can keep paginating requests until

# finished.

while True:

try:

# Perform some action on each post in the collection we receive from

# Facebook.

[some_action(post=post) for post in posts['data']]

# Attempt to make a request to the next page of data, if it exists.

posts = requests.get(posts['paging']['next']).json()

except KeyError:

# When there are no more pages (['paging']['next']), break from the

# loop and end the script.

break