https://github.com/vedang/saythanks

Say thanks to all the nice people who wish you on FB on your birthday.
https://github.com/vedang/saythanks

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Say thanks to all the nice people who wish you on FB on your birthday.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vedang/saythanks
• Owner: vedang
• Created: 2012-08-27T16:45:04.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-09-07T17:14:31.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-04T18:37:33.247Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Clojure
• Size: 19.5 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.txt

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README

        
;; -*- mode: org; -*-

* saythanks

A Clojure library designed to thank people who wish you on Facebook on

your birthday. You can see an image of it in action here: http://imgur.com/w2xZl

*UPDATE*: The last time I ran this code successfully was in 2014.

Facebook as since changed the way that they return birthday posts in

the Graph API. We no longer have access to every individual post, we

can only access the entire group of posts via the API (Eg: "Vedang and

30 other friends have wished you on your Birthday"). Therefore it is

no longer possible to reply to each individual post.

Keeping the repo around for nostalgia :)

** Pre-requisites

You need to install Redis in order to use this code. We need Redis to

store the point to which we've replied to posts. This allows us keep

continuously polling Facebook and reply to everyone who wishes us.

** Usage

1. Create the file ~src/saythanks/access.clj~

Add the following code to it:

#+BEGIN_SRC clojure

  (ns saythanks.access)

  (def access-token "")

#+END_SRC

You can get your access-token from https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer. You need the ~user_posts~ (under User Data Permissions) and ~publish_actions~ (under Extended Permissions) permissions.

2. Change the default thank-you messages in ~src/saythanks/core.clj~

(If you wish, I think the defaults are quite good.)

A thank-you message will be picked at random and used to reply to the

facebook post.

3. Go to the terminal and run:

#+BEGIN_SRC shell

  $ lein uberjar

  $ java -jar ./target/saythanks-0.2.0-standalone.jar

#+END_SRC

Enjoy :)

* Author - Vedang Manerikar

* Contributors

 - Kiran Kulkarni ([[https://twitter.com/kiran_kulkarni][@kiran_kulkarni]]): the awesome regex which is at the heart of the code.

* License

Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Vedang Manerikar ([[https://twitter.com/vedang][@vedang]])

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.