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:globe_with_meridians: :two_men_holding_hands: Node.js client for the Facebook Graph API with Flow
https://github.com/zaiste/facebookgraph
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:globe_with_meridians: :two_men_holding_hands: Node.js client for the Facebook Graph API with Flow
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/zaiste/facebookgraph
- Owner: zaiste
- Created: 2017-04-12T11:59:32.000Z (about 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-12-07T09:47:58.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-06-06T01:45:01.165Z (about 1 month ago)
- Topics: async, async-await, facebook, facebook-api, graph, nodejs
- Language: JavaScript
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- Size: 146 KB
- Stars: 18
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 11
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# facebookgraph
`facebookgraph` is a Node.js client/interface for the [Facebook Graph API][3].
* it uses [axios][1] instead of [requests][2]
* it uses `async/await` syntax
* it works only with Node.js 7.6+
* it uses TypeScript
* it comes with built-in pagination for fetching data from particular nodes or via search
**Table of Contents**
- [Install](#install)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Request object using ID](#request-object-using-id)
- [Search API](#search-api)
- [Pagination](#pagination)
- [Posting text messages, photos or videos](#posting-text-messages-photos-or-videos)
- [Batch requests](#batch-requests)
## Install
```
yarn add facebookgraph
```
or
```
npm install facebookgraph
```
## Usage
In order to use Facebook Graph API you need to have an access token which is being used to initialize `FacebookGraph` object. Here's an example how to fetch 5 posts of the page with the id `523008607856853`.
```js
const FacebookGraph = require('facebookgraph');
const graph = new FacebookGraph('')
const posts = await graph.fetch('523008607856853', 'posts', 5)
console.log(posts);
```
### Request object using ID
```js
const zuck = await graph.get('4');
```
```
{ id: '4',
first_name: 'Mark',
last_name: 'Zuckerberg',
link: 'https://www.facebook.com/app_scoped_user_id/4/',
name: 'Mark Zuckerberg',
updated_time: '2017-01-26T08:32:59+0000' }
```
### Search API
Search API endpoint is: `https://graph.facebook.com/v2.8/search`. You can search through objects of type `user`, `page`, `event`, `group`, `place`, `placetopic`.
The payload object has three properties: a search term (`q`), a search type (`type`) property and `fields` of each object. Check out the docs to see which fields can be requested for each object.
```js
const pages = await graph.search({ q: 'geek', type: 'page', fields: 'name, link' })
```
The code above requests the `name` and `link` fields to be returned which are the part of the page public profile and do not require additional permissions. The Facebook Graph API's `/search` end point only returns publicly available information.
The syntax for requesting the field of a field is `field{nestedField}`; to request more than one nested field, separate them by commas: `field{nestedField1, nestedField2, nestedField3}`; e.g. specify `photos.limit(2)` to return only 2 photos, or `photos.limit(2){link, comments.limit(3)}` to return only 2 photos but `link` and up to 3 comments for each one.
```js
const users = await graph.search({ q: 'geek', type: 'user', fields: 'photos.limit(2){link, comments.limit(2)}' }
```
### Pagination
By default, `.search` and `.fetch` get only first 25 corresponding elements. It is possible, however, get more results as pagination is already incorporated. There is a 2nd paramater `size` for both `.search` and `.fetch` which defines how many elements should be fetched in total: it can be set either to a particular number or as `Infinity` to go through all the results pages and gather all results
```js
const pages = await graph.search({ q: 'geek', type: 'page', fields: 'name, link' }, Infinity)
```
```js
const posts = await graph.fetch('523008607856853', 'posts', 100)
```
### Posting text messages, photos or videos
```js
const post = await graph.post('me', { message: 'This is a test message.', link: 'https://zaiste.net' });
```
Set `no_story` to hide the post from showing up in the user feed.
### Batch requests
```js
const r = await graph.batch([
{ method: "GET", relative_url: "me"},
{ method: "GET", relative_url: "me/friends?limit=10"}
])
```
[1]: https://github.com/mzabriskie/axios
[2]: https://github.com/request/request
[3]: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api