Political Web Scraping with Facebook

We’re Haihoua Yang, Lindsey Titus, Tamarcus Garcia, and Jubal Martin Hello! We’re Haihoua Yang, Lindsey Titus, Tamarcus Garcia, and Jubal Martin

What is it, and how does it work? 1. Facebook Graph API What is it, and how does it work?

Facebook Graph API The Graph API is named after the idea of a 'social graph' - a representation of the information on Facebook composed of: nodes - basically "things" such as a User, a Photo, a Page, a Comment edges - the connections between those "things", such as a Page's Photos, or a Photo's Comments fields - info about those "things", such as a person's birthday, or the name of a Page The graph API is the primary way to get data in and out of Facebook’s social graph. It’s a low-level HTTP-based API that is used to query data, post new stories, upload photos and a variety of other tasks that an app might need to do We used the API in order to scrape the facebook profiles of the political candidates to gain insight on the amount of interactions with their posts over time.

Access Tokens An access token is a string that identifies a user, app, or page and can be used by the app to make graph API calls. The Token is split into two parts; the id and the secret.

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