Proof of concept, retrieve publicly-available Facebook page event data.
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<?php | |
/** | |
* Proof of concept, retrieve publicly-available Facebook page event data. | |
* Chris Hardie <chris@chrishardie.com> | |
* | |
* To use, first add Guzzle as a dependency: | |
* $ commposer require guzzlehttp/guzzle | |
* | |
*/ | |
require 'vendor/autoload.php'; | |
use GuzzleHttp\Client; | |
define( 'FB_UPCOMING_EVENT_DOC_ID', 2343886202319301 ); | |
$facebook_pages = array( | |
'50650939390' => array( | |
'page_name' => 'Richmond Parks Department', | |
'page_url' => 'https://www.facebook.com/richmondparks/', | |
'category' => 'outdoor', | |
), | |
); | |
$facebook_base_params = array( | |
'fb_api_req_friendly_name' => 'PageEventsTabUpcomingEventsCardRendererQuery', | |
'__req' => '8', | |
'__user' => '0', | |
'av' => '0', | |
'__a' => '1', | |
'__be' => '1', | |
'dpr' => '2', | |
'fb_api_caller_class' => 'RelayModern', | |
'__pc:PHASED' => 'DEFAULT', | |
'__comet_req' => 'false', | |
); | |
$client = new Client( | |
[ | |
// Base URI is used with relative requests | |
'base_uri' => 'https://www.facebook.com', | |
// You can set any number of default request options. | |
'timeout' => 2.0, | |
] | |
); | |
$headers = [ | |
'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36', | |
'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', | |
'Origin' => 'https://www.facebook.com', | |
]; | |
foreach ( $facebook_pages as $facebook_page_id => $facebook_page ) { | |
$facebook_variable_value = '{"pageID":"' . $facebook_page_id . '"}'; | |
$facebook_form_params = array_merge( | |
$facebook_base_params, | |
array( | |
'variables' => $facebook_variable_value, | |
'doc_id' => FB_UPCOMING_EVENT_DOC_ID, | |
) | |
); | |
$upcoming_event_response = $client->request( | |
'POST', | |
'/api/graphql/', | |
[ | |
'headers' => $headers, | |
'form_params' => $facebook_form_params, | |
] | |
); | |
$response_code = $upcoming_event_response->getStatusCode(); | |
if ( ! empty( $response_code ) && ( 200 === $response_code ) ) { | |
$body = $upcoming_event_response->getBody(); | |
if ( null !== $body ) { | |
$fb_response = json_decode( $body, true ); | |
$fb_events = $fb_response['data']['page']['upcoming_events']['edges']; | |
} | |
} | |
if ( ! empty( $fb_events ) && ( 0 < count( $fb_events ) ) ) { | |
foreach ( $fb_events as $fb_event ) { | |
$event = $fb_event['node']; | |
echo $event['id'] . PHP_EOL; | |
echo $event['name'] . PHP_EOL; | |
echo $event['time_range']['start'] . PHP_EOL; | |
echo $event['event_place']['contextual_name'] . PHP_EOL; | |
echo $event['event_place']['city']['contextual_name'] . PHP_EOL; | |
echo $event['event_buy_ticket_url'] . PHP_EOL; | |
echo PHP_EOL; | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
exit; |
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