facebook_post_rate_example.py

"""This gist demonstrates how to automatically authenticate with Facebook's OAuth2
using fbconsole --- programmatically, without a browser --- and then count the number
of Posts, for example, on a Facebook Page. 
"""

import fbconsole
import datetime
import time

# set up fbconsole
fbconsole.APP_ID = "xxxx_your_app_id"
fbconsole.AUTH_SCOPE = ["read_stream",]
page_id = "xxxx_your_Page_id"

# use fbconsole's automatically_authenticate method 
# to login to the server programmatically
fbconsole.automatically_authenticate(
    "xxxx_your_username",
    "xxxx_your_password",
    "xxxx_your_redirect_uri",
)

# get all the Posts for last year
now = datetime.datetime.now()
last_year = now - datetime.timedelta(days=days)
opts = {
    "since": str(int(time.mktime(last_year.timetuple()))),
}
result = fbconsole.get("/%s/posts" % page_id, opts)
print len(result["data"])