Python Facebook API - cursor pagination

Question

My question involves learning how to retrieve my entire list of friends using Facebook\'s Python API. The current result returns an object with limited number of friends

Answer 1

Sadly the documentation of pagination is an open issue since almost 2 years. You should be able to paginate like this (based on this example) using requests:

import facebook
import requests

ACCESS_TOKEN = "my_token"
graph = facebook.GraphAPI(ACCESS_TOKEN)
friends = graph.get_connections("me","friends")

allfriends = []

# Wrap this block in a while loop so we can keep paginating requests until
# finished.
while(True):
    try:
        for friend in friends['data']:
            allfriends.append(friend['name'].encode('utf-8'))
        # Attempt to make a request to the next page of data, if it exists.
        friends=requests.get(friends['paging']['next']).json()
    except KeyError:
        # When there are no more pages (['paging']['next']), break from the
        # loop and end the script.
        break
print allfriends

Update: There's a new generator method available which implements above behavior and can be used to iterate over all friends like this:

for friend in graph.get_all_connections("me", "friends"):
    # Do something with this friend.