Reply to Facebook birthday posts

facebook_post_comments.py

# This script will go through your facebook wall, 
# pick the posts within 3 days of your birthday
# and like all of them, in addition, allowing you
# to respond to the wishes with a comment.
# You will be prompted to comment each time.
# If you just hit 'Enter', it will submit the default comment.

# this needs facepy to be installed
# run 'pip install facepy'

from facepy import GraphAPI
from datetime import datetime

# Get access token from Facebook
access_token = ''

graph = GraphAPI(access_token)

# Change this default comment
default = "Thank You!"
# All posts will also be 'Liked'
like_all = True
bday_posts = []

format = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S+0000"

# Get birthday
me = graph.get('me')
dob = me.get('birthday')
date = datetime.strptime(dob, '%m/%d/%Y')
date.replace(year=datetime.now().year)

# Get posts within 3 days of birthday
posts = graph.get('me/feed')
# This list of posts might be incomplete
# In which case, make successive calls
# to the 'next' URL in the response and
# append to bday_posts
daterange = datetime.timedelta(days=3)
for item in posts.data:
    if datetime.strptime(item['updated_time'], format) - date > daterange:
        bday_posts.append(item)


# TODO: filter out extra posts
# in case people have posted on your wall within this date range
# unrelated to birthday, you might want to eliminate those posts out

count = 0

for i in bday_posts:
    print i['from']['name'], ": ", i['message']
    id = i['id']
    a = raw_input('Comment: ')
    if len(a) == 0:
        a = default
    comment = {"message" : a }
    print a
    if like_all:
        graph.post(path=id+"/likes")
    graph.post(path=id+"/comments", **comment)
    count += 1

print "Replied to %d posts." % count