Unable to retrieve search results from server side : Facebook Graph API usig Python
- by DjangoRocks
Hi all,
I'm doing some simple Python + FB Graph training on my own, and I faced a weird problem:
import time
import sys
import urllib2
import urllib
from json import loads
base_url = "https://graph.facebook.com/search?q="
post_id = None
post_type = None
user_id = None
message = None
created_time = None
def doit(hour):
page = 1
search_term = "\"Plastic Planet\""
encoded_search_term = urllib.quote(search_term)
print encoded_search_term
type="&type=post"
url = "%s%s%s" % (base_url,encoded_search_term,type)
print url
while(1):
try:
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
print e
finally:
pass
content = response.read()
content = loads(content)
print "=================================="
for c in content["data"]:
print c
print "****************************************"
try:
content["paging"]
print "current URL"
print url
print "next page!------------"
url = content["paging"]["next"]
print url
except:
pass
finally:
pass
"""
print "new URL is ======================="
print url
print "=================================="
"""
print url
What I'm trying to do here is to automatically page through the search results,
but trying for content["paging"]["next"]
But the weird thing is that no data is returned; i received the following:
{"data":[]}
Even in the very first loop.
But when i copied the URL into a browser, a lot of results were returned.
I've also tried a version with my access token and th same thing happens.
Can anyone enlighten me?
+++++++++++++++++++EDITED and SIMPLIFIED++++++++++++++++++
ok thanks to TryPyPy, here's the simplified and edited version of my previous question:
Why is that:
import urllib2
url = "https://graph.facebook.com/searchq=%22Plastic+Planet%22&type=post&limit=25&until=2010-12-29T19%3A54%3A56%2B0000"
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
print response.read()
result in {"data":[]} ?
But the same url produces a lot of data in a browser?
Anyone?
Best Regards.
