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

in this example you off set / pagination by one at the time, i think my while loop is simple since it only looking for the pagination key"next" to be none, if doesnt exists means we finish looping, and you will have your results in a list. in this example i am just looking for all the people call jacob

import requests
import facebook

token = access_token="your token goes here"
fb = facebook.GraphAPI(access_token=token)
limit = 1
offset = 0
data = {"q": "jacob",
        "type": "user",
        "fields": "id",
        "limit": limit,
        "offset": offset}
req = fb.request('/search', args=data, method='GET')

users = []
for item in req['data']:
    users.append(item["id"])

pag = req['paging']
while pag.get("next") is not None:
    offset += limit
    data["offset"] = offset
    req = fb.request('/search', args=data, method='GET')
    for item in req['data']:
        users.append(item["id"])
    pag = req.get('paging')
print users