Facebook-event

Simple Python command line script for creating, updating and displaying Facebook events.

Requirements

dateutil, facepy, requests (required by facepy)

Obtaining access tokens

Only user token allows to post events on behalf of the user

App token:

1. Go to: https://developers.facebook.com/apps
2. Click: "Create New App"
3. Provide an app name, then click "Continue"
4. Token is available at: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/access_token/

Extended user token (complete above before proceeding):

1. Go to: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer
2. Select your application and click: "Get Access Token"
3. Check: "user_events" (in "User Data Permissions") and "create_event" (in "Extended Permissions")
4. Click: "Get Access Token"

This is short-lived token (which expires in about 2 hours). To extend it (to about 2 months) you need facebook-extend-access-token.py script together with the just generated short-lived token, app id and app secret (https://developers.facebook.com/apps):

$ ./facebook-extend-access-token.py --appid 'App ID' --appsecret 'App Secret' --token 'User Token'

For more details, please go to: <https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens>

Command examples

All examples assume you have already setup your access token in config.json!

$ ./facebook-event.py -h
$ ./facebook-event.py create --title 'Event title' --desc 'Event description' --date '2013-11-11 16:16'
$ ./facebook-event.py update --id 331218348435 --desc 'Event description update'
$ ./facebook-event.py details --id 'https://www.facebook.com/events/331218348435'
$ ./facebook-event.py details --id 331218348435