Python - Facebook API - Need a working example
Question: Ok, so i've googled around, i've found threads here on stackoverflow and i've
checked the official Facebook wiki and.. and what not..

I now hope that one of you guys sits on a Facebook API sample code for Python.
This is what i've got so far and all i get is "Invalid Signature" via
PyFacebook which appears to be a dead project:

    
    
    from facebook import Facebook
    
    api_key = '123456789______'
    secret  = '<proper secret key>'
    OTK = 'XXXXX' # <-- You get this from: https://www.facebook.com/code_gen.php?v=1.0&api_key=123456789______
    long_term_key = None
    
    fb = Facebook(api_key, secret)
    
    def generate_session_from_onetime_code(fb, code):
        fb.auth_token = code
        return fb.auth.getSession()
    if not long_term_key:
        long_term_key = generate_session_from_onetime_code(fb, OTK)['session_key']
        print 'Replace None with this in the .py file for long_term_key:'
        print long_term_key
    
    fb.session_key = long_term_key
    fb.uid = 000000001  # <-- Your user-id
    fb.signature = api_key # <-- This doesn't work at all, MD5 of what?
    #fb.validate_signature(fb) # <-- doesn't work either, prob need to pass MD5 handle?
    print fb.friends.get() # <-- Generates "Invalid Signature"
    

"all" i want, is to retrieve my friends list for now, if there's a better API
point me in the right direction but Facebook has officially declared their own
Python SDK dead and pyfacebook is almost working for me but not quite..

So, please help.


Answer: The [unofficial fork of the python
sdk](https://github.com/pythonforfacebook/facebook-sdk) is still working fine
for me.

To retrieve your friends, generate an access token here:
<https://developers.facebook.com/tools/access_token/>

Limitations:

  * A user access token with user_friends permission is required to view the current person's friends.
  * This will only return any friends who have used (via Facebook Login) the app making the request.
  * If a friend of the person declines the user_friends permission, that friend will not show up in the friend list for this person.

Code

>
>     import facebook
>  
>     token = 'your token'
>  
>     graph = facebook.GraphAPI(token)
>     profile = graph.get_object("me")
>     friends = graph.get_connections("me", "friends")
>  
>     friend_list = [friend['name'] for friend in friends['data']]
>  
>     print friend_list
>  

