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Fetch data from facebook API
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var https = require('https'); | |
exports.get = function(accessToken, apiPath, callback) { | |
// creating options object for the https request | |
var options = { | |
// the facebook open graph domain | |
host: 'graph.facebook.com', | |
// secured port, for https | |
port: 443, | |
// apiPath is the open graph api path | |
path: apiPath + '?access_token=' + accessToken, | |
// well.. you know... | |
method: 'GET' | |
}; | |
// create a buffer to hold the data received | |
// from facebook | |
var buffer = ''; | |
// initialize the get request | |
var request = https.get(options, function(result){ | |
result.setEncoding('utf8'); | |
// each data event of the request receiving | |
// chunk, this is where i`m collecting the chunks | |
// and put them together into one buffer... | |
result.on('data', function(chunk){ | |
buffer += chunk; | |
}); | |
// all the data received, calling the callback | |
// function with the data as a parameter | |
result.on('end', function(){ | |
callback(buffer); | |
}); | |
}); | |
// just in case of an error, prompting a message | |
request.on('error', function(e){ | |
console.log('error from facebook.get(): ' | |
+ e.message); | |
}); | |
request.end(); | |
} |
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