Graal Forums - Gathering Facebook Posts Data

Hello,

On Era we do a lot of Facebook Events, which require the user to either like a status or share a page for a prize. Here's an example
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...96630503_n.png

So, instead of us going through each of these shares and selecting random users you can get the information via a script.

You will need to collect the postID from Facebook, here's how
http://puu.sh/3wnxw.jpg
Highlight over the date of the post, and the link at the bottom of your page will appear. Take the 'fbid' flag.

PHP Code:


		
			
function onCreated() {

    //Facebook Post ID

  temp.postID = "534261823300559";



    //How many winners to select

  temp.winners = 9;

  

      //Catch the response  

  temp.json = new TStaticVar("GSyncResponse" @ int(timevar2 * 100));

  temp.req = "http://graph.facebook.com/" @ temp.postID @ "/likes?limit=9999";

  temp.response = this.get(temp.req);

  

    //Add it to the object

  temp.json.loadJSONFromString(temp.response);

  

    //Do a loop through to find the winners

  for (temp.i = 0; temp.i < temp.winners; temp.i++) {

      //Select one at random

    temp.rand = int(random(0, temp.json.data.size()));

    

      //Return the data

    temp.fb_ID = temp.json.data[temp.rand].id;

    temp.fb_Name = temp.json.data[temp.rand].xmlname;    

    echo("Winner:" SPC temp.fb_Name SPC "http://www.facebook.com/" @ temp.fb_ID);

  }    

}



  //Http Functions Class (Made by Chris Vimes)

function get(temp.url, temp.reqTimeout) {

  temp.req = new TCURLRequest();

  temp.req.url = temp.url;

 

  return this.getDataFromRequest(temp.req, temp.reqTimeout);

}

 

// helper functions

function getDataFromRequest(temp.req, temp.reqTimeout) {

  // default to 30 second timeout if none given

  if (temp.reqTimeout <= 0) {

    temp.reqTimeout = 30;

  }

 

  // send request and wait for data

  temp.req.sendRequest();

 

  waitfor(temp.req, "onReceiveData", temp.reqTimeout);

 

  temp.data = temp.req.data;

  temp.req.destroy();

 

  return temp.data;

}

This is what it will return

HTML Code:

Winner: Ellie Graal http://www.facebook.com/1000

Winner: Bob Bob http://www.facebook.com/1

Winner: KM http://www.facebook.com/10000

Winner: HD http://www.facebook.com/10000508

etc

Which you can contact the winners to award their prize.