Basic lookup using facebook graph api without using the auth token.

exploreFacebook.py

import requests
import pprint
import facebook
import json

FB_APP_CLIENT_ID = ''
FB_APP_CLIENT_SECRET = ''
FB_MY_USER_ID = ''


def writeTokenToFile(token):
    with open('tokenFile', 'w') as tokenFile:
        tokenFile.write(token)


def readTokenFromFile():
    with open('tokenFile', 'r') as tokenFile:
        token = tokenFile.read()
    return token


def getAccessToken():
    fbUrl = 'https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=' \
            + FB_APP_CLIENT_ID + '&client_secret=' + FB_APP_CLIENT_SECRET
    r = requests.get(fbUrl)
    access_token = r.text.split('=')[1]
    return access_token


def getInfoAboutMe(token):
    r = requests.get('https://graph.facebook.com/' + FB_MY_USER_ID, params={'access_token': token})
    pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4)
    pp.pprint(r.json())


def getInfoAboutFriends(token):
    friendsUrl = "?fields=id,name,friends.fields(last_name,first_name,gender)"
    r = requests.get('https://graph.facebook.com/' + FB_MY_USER_ID + friendsUrl, params={'access_token': token})
    data = r.json()
    friends = data['friends']
    count = len(friends['data'])
    #pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4)
    #pp.pprint(r.json())
    print(count)


def tryOpenGraph(token):
    graph = facebook.GraphAPI(token)
    profile = graph.get_object(FB_MY_USER_ID)
    friends = graph.get_connections(FB_MY_USER_ID, "friends",
                                    fields="last_name,first_name,gender")
    print(json.dumps(profile, indent=4, separators=(',', ': ')))
    print(json.dumps(friends, indent=4, separators=(',', ': ')))


def readConfigFile():
    import ConfigParser

    config = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser()
    config.read('details.txt')
    global FB_APP_CLIENT_ID, FB_APP_CLIENT_SECRET, FB_MY_USER_ID
    FB_APP_CLIENT_ID = config.get('Credentials', 'FB_APP_CLIENT_ID')
    FB_APP_CLIENT_SECRET = config.get('Credentials', 'FB_APP_CLIENT_SECRET')
    FB_MY_USER_ID = config.get('Credentials', 'FB_MY_USER_ID')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    readConfigFile()
    token = readTokenFromFile()
    print('found token to be {0}'.format(token))
    if token is None or len(token.strip()) == 0:
        print('Getting a new token')
        token = getAccessToken()
        writeTokenToFile(token)

    #getInfoAboutMe(token)
    #getInfoAboutFriends(token)
    tryOpenGraph(token)

Depends on python requests library and pprint library

References:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14611240/how-to-connect-to-facebook-graph-api-from-python-using-requests-if-i-do-not-need
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/login-flow-for-web-no-jssdk/
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer

Updated the gist to use the python facebook SDK https://github.com/pythonforfacebook/facebook-sdk/

Note that how we are referring to ourself using the FB_ID vs me.

Added code to read the app id, app secret and user id from a config file. The format of the file can be

[Credentials]
FB_APP_CLIENT_ID :
FB_APP_CLIENT_SECRET :
FB_MY_USER_ID :