Gathering Facebook Posts Data

[xAndrewx]

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


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

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

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.

[xAndrewx]

Here's some fancy graph to show what actually happened...



From the Facebook Share event- 22,000 saw the post. In this event, only 9 of the 22,000 people that saw the post won a prize. Pretty good publicity for free.

[MysticalDragon]

I love it will talk to Novo about using it on Delteria!