Facebook Event Attendant scraper

scrape_fb_event_attendants.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import json
import requests

# Usage
# ./scrape_fb_events_attendants.py event_id access_token | tr "}" "\n" | grep "Name to Search"
# access_token: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
def main():
    event_id = sys.argv[1]
    access_token = sys.argv[2]

    next_url = "https://graph.facebook.com/" + event_id + "/attending?limit=100&access_token=" + access_token

    request_count = 0
    # attendants = []

    while len(next_url) > 0:
        # print(str(request_count) + "_000 people fetched")
        request_count = request_count + 1

        r = requests.get(next_url)

        result = json.loads(r.text)

        # print(result)

        print(result["data"])

        if "next" in result["paging"]:
            next_url = result["paging"]["next"]
        else:
            next_url = ""

    # print(attendants)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()