FacebookTestAccount.py

import urllib, urllib2, json

class FacebookTestUserManager:
    '''
    A tool which helps to create and delete test account for
    Facebook.

    See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/test_users/
    '''

    def __init__(self, facebookAppID, facebookSecret):
        self.app_id = facebookAppID
        self.app_secret = facebookSecret
        self.app_access_token = None

    def _obtain_app_access_token(self):
        GET_parameters = {'client_id': self.app_id,
                          'client_secret': self.app_secret,
                          'grant_type': 'client_credentials'}
        URL = "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?" + \
              urllib.urlencode(GET_parameters)
        response = urllib2.urlopen(URL).read()
        return response[len('access_token='):]

    def create_test_account(self, user_name = 'test_user',
                            permissions=["email", "publish_stream",
                                         "user_about_me", "publish_actions"]):
        if self.app_access_token == None:
            self.app_access_token = self._obtain_app_access_token()
        GET_parameters = {'installed': 'true',
                          'name': user_name,
                          'locale': 'en_US',
                          'method': 'post',
                          'access_token': self.app_access_token}
        URL = "https://graph.facebook.com/%s/accounts/test-users?" % self.app_id
        URL += urllib.urlencode(GET_parameters)
        URL += '&permissions=%s' % ','.join(permissions)
        response = urllib2.urlopen(URL).read()
        return json.loads(response)

    def delete_test_user(self, user_id):
        if self.app_access_token == None:
            self.app_access_token = self._obtain_app_access_token()
        GET_parameters = {'method': 'delete',
                          'access_token': self.app_access_token}
        URL = "https://graph.facebook.com/%s/?" % user_id
        URL += urllib.urlencode(GET_parameters)
        response = urllib2.urlopen(URL).read()
        return json.loads(response)