Comment Scraper

parse.py

import facebook
import json
import iso8601
import pytz

tZone = pytz.timezone('US/Eastern')

token = raw_input('User Token: ')
threadID = raw_input('Thread ID: ')

graph = facebook.GraphAPI(token)
thread = graph.get_object(threadID)

commentFile = open(threadID + '-comments.txt', 'w')

stringIter = []

for comment in thread['comments']['data']:
        dtime = iso8601.parse_date(comment['created_time']).astimezone(tZone)

        stringIter.append('|Poster: ' + comment['from']['name'] + '\n')
        #stringIter.append('Time: ' + str(dtime.month) + '/' + str(dtime.day) + '/' + str(dtime.year) + '@' + str(dtime.hour - timeOffset) + ':' + str(dtime.minute) + ':' + str(dtime.second) + ' GMT' + str(timeOffset) + '\n')
        stringIter.append('|Time: ' + dtime.strftime('%d%b%y @ %H:%M:%S%Z') + '\n|')
        stringIter.append('\n|' + comment['message'].replace('\n', '\n|') + '\n' + '|_________________________\n\n')

for line in stringIter:
        commentFile.write(line.encode('utf-8'))
        #print line.encode('utf-8')

commentFile.close()