Search Facebook Graph API for specific string and write to CSV

fbsearch.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
fbsearch.py
ismail@zyelabs.net
"""
import facepy
import csv

fieldnames = [u'category', u'name', u'id']
sstring = 'recipes'
stype = 'page'
f = open(sstring + '.csv','w')
writer = csv.DictWriter(f, fieldnames)

graph = facepy.GraphAPI()
z = graph.search(sstring,stype,page=True)
for col in z:
	for rec in col['data']:
		for item in rec:
			rec[item] = rec[item].encode('ascii', 'ignore')
		writer.writerow(rec)
		print rec
	print "writing...."
print "All done"
f.close()