fbfeed2csv: a tool to download all posts from a user/group/page's facebook feed to a csv file

fbfeed2csv.py

"""
fbfeed2csv: a tool to download all posts from a user/group/page's facebook feed to a csv file
yuzawa-san
https://github.com/yuzawa-san
"""

import json
import urllib2
import time
import csv
import re
import argparse



def loadPage(url):
    # delay
    time.sleep(1)
    # download
    response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
    content = response.read()
    payload = ''
    print "DOWNLOAD!"
    try:
        payload = json.loads(content)
    except:
        print "JSON decoding failed!"
    if 'data' in payload:
        out = []
        for post in payload['data']:
            if 'message' in post:
                # make timestamp pretty
                timestamp = post['created_time']
                timestamp = re.sub(r'\+\d+$', '', timestamp)
                timestamp = timestamp.replace('T',' ')
                out.append({
                    'author': post['from']['name'].encode('ascii', 'ignore'),
                    'timestamp': timestamp,
                    'message': post['message'].encode('ascii', 'ignore')})
        out2 = []
        if 'paging' in payload:
            out2 = loadPage(payload['paging']['next'])
        return out + out2
    return []
    

# entry point:

# get args
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('id', help='ID of Graph API resource')
parser.add_argument('-o', '--out', default="fbdump.csv", help='Output file')
parser.add_argument('-t', '--token', help='Authentication token')
args = parser.parse_args()

try:
    out = loadPage("https://graph.facebook.com/%s/feed?fields=from,message,created_time&limit=1000&access_token=%s" % (args.id, args.token))
    # write output to file
    f = open(args.out,'wb')
    w = csv.DictWriter(f,['author','timestamp','message'])
    w.writerows(out)
    f.close()
except urllib2.HTTPError as e:
    print "Download failed:",e
    error_message = e.read()
    print error_message
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print "Canceled!"

i am looking for a code to make an moderator off an abounded Facebook group with no Admin. We can't post anything. The other moderators are not active at all.

Could you give more detailed information about how to use it?

Am I wrong, with the April 4th 2018 changes on graph API , this ain't working anymore? As groups API is blocked, at least without a "Reviewed App"

This should not work anymore because every apps need to be reviewed before being able to retrieve posts, which is very annoying.