Facebook API Example

parse.py

import urllib2
import json

class FBParser(object):
    """Receive Facebook Open Graph API calls and return an object containing
    the results"""
        
    def call(self, call, api="https://graph.facebook.com/"):
        """Process Facebook API calls."""
        # Grab the content.
        remoteURL = urllib2.urlopen(api + call)
        remoteText = remoteURL.read()
        # Parse the json with json.loads() and return the resulting object.
        jsonObject = json.loads(remoteText)
        return jsonObject

# Create a new parser object.
parser = FBParser()

try:
    # Make a Facebook API call to /KyeRussell and print out the first_name and last_name.
    myprofile = parser.call("KyeRussell")
    print("This profile belongs to: " + myprofile['first_name'] + " " + myprofile["last_name"])
except KeyError:
    # There was an error parsing the object, chances are that the returned object isn't a personal profile.
    print("The object is not a personal profile.")