This is the most active one, forked from the official facebook one (when they used to maintain it themselves): https://github.com/pythonforfacebook/facebook-sdk
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Jerry Rocteur <jerry.roct...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I posted this mail on Friday and received no replies.. >> >> I'm curious.. >> >> Is it because >> >> 1) Python is not the language to use for Facebook, use Javascript or XXX >> ?? instead ? Please tell. >> 2) I've missed the point and this is very well documented so RTFM (I >> couldn't find it) >> 3) You guys don't use Facebook, you have a life .. > > I personally don't use Facebook, but I don't have much of a life > either..... But I've never heard of a specific Python-Facebook module, > until just now when I googled it and found a couple of things. > > Two points: > > 1) Python's pretty good at networking. If all else fails, you can > always just implement whatever Facebook's API is (the Google snippets > suggest it's REST, ie all HTTP, which Python does admirably), and go > from there. > > 2) An active Python-Facebook module will have active developers who > probably know far more about how to use their module than random > people like me who happen to read all of python-list :) There may well > be such people on this list, but since you've received no replies, > it's possible there aren't. (It's also possible that they don't > monitor this list on weekends, though. You never know.) > > 3) What do Facebook think of you downloading all their content and > viewing it without their ads? Not that I particularly care, but it may > be something to consider, since you're effectively going to get > everything that Facebook offers you (ie posts/pics/etc) without > everything that Facebook steals from you and sells (page views, ad > impressions, etc). > > (Among our points are such diverse elements as... wrong Pythons, but > whatever.) > > There's no official Python-Facebook module (afaik!!), but a quick web > search for 'python facebook' should get you to the couple that I saw, > and possibly others. The next question is, do you trust any of them... > Good luck with that one! :) > > Chris Angelico > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
