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ages from facebook comments, probably my first python "program" ever
# first: pip install requests
# second: python fb_ages.py
import requests
import json
import re
from collections import Counter, OrderedDict
ages = []
# fetch JSON Data
comments = requests.get(
'http://graph.facebook.com/510085202471863/comments?limit=300').json()
# find valid ages and put them in a list
for comment in comments['data']:
# find ages with two numbers, ignoring single number ages
match = re.findall( r'\d{2}', comment['message'])
# only get ages where the is only one number in comment
if len(match) == 1:
ages.append(match[0])
# count & order ages
age_count_dict = OrderedDict(sorted(Counter(ages).items(), key=lambda t: t[1],
reverse=True))
# print out age, count and percentage
for age, count in age_count_dict.items():
print age, count, '%.1f' % round((count / (len(ages)*1.0)) * 100, 2) + '%'
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