Change the calls according to Facebook's changed API and rate limits about facebook-birthday-response

[jpdias92]

After some minor modifications, I was able to get this code functional again.

• Regarding JaharshKotha's post, the answers is yes, in the current version, you are iterating with post but accessing "wish". I changed the "wish" occurrences with "post", this was easy as you would get a very explicit error.

• Regarding the facebook changed API, I had to modify the params line with the following: "params = {'since': utc_bday, 'access_token': access_token, 'fields': 'id,message,from,name,type'}". Apparently, now you just get a couple fields by default and you must explicitly specify the fields you want to receive.

• The like functionality is no longer supported by the API: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/1754734484744033/

• I also had a problem testing this code with only one post, when assigning next_url. As this was my first test, I don't know if this was happening in cases with multiple posts. Anyway, to solve that error, I added a try catch block when we assign next_url. I catch the exception KeyError and return "wishes".

Think that's it... Successfully tested right now.

[JaharshKotha]

I have a small doubt in what you have written :
if comment: reply = choice(message_set) print 'Replying %s to %s' % (reply, wish['from']) url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/%s/comments?access_token=%s' % (wish['id'], access_token) requests.post(url, data={'message': reply}, proxies=proxy_dict)

Isn't this supposed to be iterating over "post"

print 'Replying %s to %s' % (reply, post['from'])
url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/%s/comments?access_token=%s' % (post['id'], access_token)

Just wondering if this did work for you without the above change ?

[rishirdua]

Wrote it long time ago back in school.

Definitely worked for me as I used it on my birthday

[JaharshKotha]

Haha ,I was expecting this , I was hesitant to ask but just gave it a shot .

[bc206]

hey! how ur accessing the tokens i mean i went to the link u mentioned logged in and then checked in the boxes manage_pages and publish_pages, then the token generated gets expired every time..thanks

[rishirdua]

@Fernuts92 Awesome, do you want to send a Pull Request and fix this for everyone?

[JaharshKotha]

@rishirdua I have worked out my own code long back after I had issues with yours , would you like to test and pull it in ?
https://github.com/JaharshKotha/Fb-birthday-bot