It gives you methods to access your data on facebook and provides objects instead of json dictionaries!
Here's a little example to access your facebook profile data
from pyfb import Pyfb
#Your APP ID. You Need to register the application on facebook
#http://developers.facebook.com/
FACEBOOK_APP_ID = 'YOUR_APP_ID'
facebook = Pyfb(FACEBOOK_APP_ID)
#Opens a new browser tab instance and authenticates with the facebook API
#It redirects to an url like http://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html#access_token=[access_token]&expires_in=0
facebook.authenticate()
#Copy the [access_token] and enter it below
token = raw_input("Enter the access_token\n")
#Sets the authentication token
facebook.set_access_token(token)
#Gets info about myself
me = facebook.get_myself()
print "-" * 40
print "Name: %s" % me.name
print "From: %s" % me.hometown.name
print
print "Speaks:"
for language in me.languages:
print "- %s" % language.name
print
print "Worked at:"
for work in me.work:
print "- %s" % work.employer.name
print "-" * 40It's easy to integrate pyfb with Django. Just see the following example:
# Facebook related Settings
FACEBOOK_APP_ID = 'YOUR_APP_ID'
FACEBOOK_SECRET_KEY = 'YOUR_APP_SECRET_CODE'
FACEBOOK_REDIRECT_URL = 'http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/facebook_login_success'from pyfb import Pyfb
from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
from settings import FACEBOOK_APP_ID, FACEBOOK_SECRET_KEY, FACEBOOK_REDIRECT_URL
def index(request):
return HttpResponse("""<button onclick="location.href='/facebook_login'">Facebook Login</button>""")
#This view redirects the user to facebook in order to get the code that allows
#pyfb to obtain the access_token in the facebook_login_success view
def facebook_login(request):
facebook = Pyfb(FACEBOOK_APP_ID)
return HttpResponseRedirect(facebook.get_auth_code_url(redirect_uri=FACEBOOK_REDIRECT_URL))
#This view must be refered in your FACEBOOK_REDIRECT_URL. For example: http://www.mywebsite.com/facebook_login_success/
def facebook_login_success(request):
code = request.GET.get('code')
facebook = Pyfb(FACEBOOK_APP_ID)
facebook.get_access_token(FACEBOOK_SECRET_KEY, code, redirect_uri=FACEBOOK_REDIRECT_URL)
me = facebook.get_myself()
welcome = "Welcome <b>%s</b>. Your Facebook login has been completed successfully!"
return HttpResponse(welcome % me.name)urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^$', 'djangoapp.django_pyfb.views.index'),
(r'^facebook_login/$', 'djangoapp.django_pyfb.views.facebook_login'),
(r'^facebook_login_success/$', 'djangoapp.django_pyfb.views.facebook_login_success'),
)You might use the JS SDK for login without a redirection to facebook (just open a popup) and Pyfb for backend api calls.
<html>
<head>
</head>
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>
function isConnected(response) {
return response.status == 'connected';
}
function getLoginStatus(FB) {
FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
if (isConnected(response)) {
onLogin(response);
}
else {
FB.login(onLogin);
}
});
}
function onLogin(response) {
if (isConnected(response)) {
location.href = '/facebook_javascript_login_sucess?access_token=' + response.authResponse.accessToken;
}
}
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
FB.init({
appId : '{{FACEBOOK_APP_ID}}',
channelUrl : 'http://localhost:8000/media/channel.html',
status : true,
cookie : true,
xfbml : true,
oauth : true,
});
};
(function(d){
var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;
js.src = "http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js";
d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);
}(document));
</script>
<body>
<button onclick="location.href='/facebook_login'">Facebook Python Login</button><br/><br/>
<button onclick="getLoginStatus(FB)">Facebook Javascript Login</button>
</body>
</html>from pyfb import Pyfb
from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from settings import FACEBOOK_APP_ID, FACEBOOK_SECRET_KEY, FACEBOOK_REDIRECT_URL
def index(request):
return render_to_response("index.html", {"FACEBOOK_APP_ID": FACEBOOK_APP_ID})
#This view redirects the user to facebook in order to get the code that allows
#pyfb to obtain the access_token in the facebook_login_success view
def facebook_login(request):
facebook = Pyfb(FACEBOOK_APP_ID)
return HttpResponseRedirect(facebook.get_auth_code_url(redirect_uri=FACEBOOK_REDIRECT_URL))
#This view must be refered in your FACEBOOK_REDIRECT_URL. For example: http://www.mywebsite.com/facebook_login_success/
def facebook_login_success(request):
code = request.GET.get('code')
facebook = Pyfb(FACEBOOK_APP_ID)
facebook.get_access_token(FACEBOOK_SECRET_KEY, code, redirect_uri=FACEBOOK_REDIRECT_URL)
return _render_user(facebook)
#Login with the js sdk and backend queries with pyfb
def facebook_javascript_login_sucess(request):
access_token = request.GET.get("access_token")
facebook = Pyfb(FACEBOOK_APP_ID)
facebook.set_access_token(access_token)
return _render_user(facebook)
def _render_user(facebook):
me = facebook.get_myself()
welcome = "Welcome <b>%s</b>. Your Facebook login has been completed successfully!"
return HttpResponse(welcome % me.name)urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^$', 'djangoapp.django_pyfb.views.index'),
(r'^facebook_login/$', 'djangoapp.django_pyfb.views.facebook_login'),
(r'^facebook_login_success/$', 'djangoapp.django_pyfb.views.facebook_login_success'),
(r'^facebook_javascript_login_sucess/$', 'djangoapp.django_pyfb.views.facebook_javascript_login_sucess'),
)