Facebook Graph API Example in Python

fbme.py

# Facebook Graph API Example in Python
# by James Thornton, http://jamesthornton.com

# Facebook API Docs
# https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api#reading

# Get Your Facebook Access Token Here...
# https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/145634995501895/?method=GET&path=me

# Before running this script...
# Set your Facebook Access Token as an environment variable in your terminal:
# $ export ACCESS_TOKEN={YOUR ACCESS TOKEN}

# To download this script, use the curl command...
# $ curl -O https://gist.githubusercontent.com/espeed/11114604/raw/a233d14604ea44f9d29af02cd2768b91caaad7af/fbme.py

# To run this script, use the python command to execute the script in your terminal...
# $ python fbme.py

import os
import json
import urllib
import pprint

# get Facebook access token from environment variable
ACCESS_TOKEN = os.environ['ACCESS_TOKEN']

# build the URL for the API endpoint
host = "https://graph.facebook.com"
path = "/me"
params = urllib.urlencode({"access_token": ACCESS_TOKEN})

url = "{host}{path}?{params}".format(host=host, path=path, params=params)

# open the URL and read the response
resp = urllib.urlopen(url).read()

# convert the returned JSON string to a Python datatype 
me = json.loads(resp)

# display the result
pprint.pprint(me)

Hi,the access_token here need user access token or app access token? Need to replace the actual token at
26 ACCESS_TOKEN = os.environ['ACCESS_TOKEN']
OR
31 params = urllib.urlencode({"access_token": ACCESS_TOKEN})

I get key error msg when run the cells.

@WJTey You need to set Access Token as environment variable before running the script or you can just put it in your code at line 26
ACCESS_TOKEN = {Your Access Token Here}
Type of access token depends upon the type type of request you are making. For example, if want to request something on the behalf of the user, you need to use user access token.

@warisali2 how to make a request to the access_token api ? I want to generate it because the same one expires if generate it on the https://developers.facebook.com/

this error message appear:
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request