Facebook API | Set-4

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Prerequisites: Facebook API Set-1, Set-2, Set-3

In this article we will be discussing 3 methods :

put_object
put_like
put_comment

put_object: Writes the mentioned object to the Facebook Social Graph connected to the given parent.
Parameters:

parent_object: A string specifying the parent of the new object. For example- Post is the parent of comment, when we want to add a new comment or when we want to add a new photo, User profile is the parent of the photo.
connection name: A string specifying the connection or edges between the objects.

Example#1: Post a message with a link to the active user wall.

import json 
import facebook 
  
def main(): 
    token = "Please replace this with "me" or your Access Token(for Posting on your wall)\ 
             or with PAGE Access Token(for posting on Page)" 
  
    graph = facebook.GraphAPI(token) 
    message = graph.put_object(parent_object ="me",  
              connection_name ="feed", 
              message ="Hello this is a great website for various Computer Science Topics.", 
              link ="https://www.zambiatek.com") 
  
    print(json.dumps(message, indent = 4)) 
  
if __name__ == '__main__': 
    main() 

Example#2: This example shows how to use put_object to post a comment to a POST.

import json 
import facebook 
  
def main(): 
    token = "Please replace this with your PAGE ACCESS TOKEN"
    graph = facebook.GraphAPI(token) 
commenttopost = graph.put_object(parent_object ="PAGEID_POSTID", 
                connection_name ="comments", 
                message ="Please share and Like the website for content on Computer Science") 
    print(json.dumps(commenttopost, indent = 4)) 
  
if __name__ == '__main__': 
    main() 

put_comment: This methods facilitates to write a message as comment to an object.
Parameters:

object_id: A string unique for a particular resource.
message: A string to be posted as comment.

import json 
import facebook 
  
def main(): 
    token = "Please replace this with your PAGE ACCESS TOKEN"
    graph = facebook.GraphAPI(token) 
    putcomment = graph.put_comment(object_id ="PAGEID_POSTID", 
                 message ="This is a very good website for Computer Science Topics") 
  
    print(json.dumps(putcomment, indent = 4)) 
  
if __name__ == '__main__': 
    main() 

put_like: Add like to a given object
Parameters:
object_id: A string that is a unique id for the particular resource.

import json 
import facebook 
  
def main(): 
    token = "Please replace this with your PAGE ACCESS TOKEN"
    graph = facebook.GraphAPI(token) 
    putlike = graph.put_like(object_id ="PAGEID_POSTID") 
    print(json.dumps(putlike, indent = 4)) 
  
if __name__ == '__main__': 
    main() 