Facebook Examples

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Analysis of micromessage from Facebook: posts, feeds, user profiles.

Read Micromessage analysis for a complete description.

Get a Facebook post thanks to its id:

curl https://graph.facebook.com/7901103_128838370482526 > post.json

Since Facebook post does not contain location information, only message language will be returned:

Short result:
curl -E semiocast-api.pem:PASSWORD --data-urlencode data@post.json "https://api.semiocast.com/1/analyze/facebook.json"

{"language":{"script_code":"latn","language_code":"en"}}
Enriched result:
curl -E semiocast-api.pem:PASSWORD -d output=enriched --data-urlencode data@post.json "https://api.semiocast.com/1/analyze/facebook.json"

{"id":"7901103_128838370482526","from":{"name":"Arjun Banker","id":"7901103"},..., "annotations":[{"language":{"script_code":"latn","language_code":"en"}}] }

Get a feed:

curl http://graph.facebook.com/therollingstones/feed > fb_feed.json

Short output:
curl -E semiocast-api.pem:PASSWORD --data-urlencode data@fb_feed.json "https://api.semiocast.com/1/analyze/facebook.json"

[ {"id":"8305888286_408784993286","language":{"script_code":"latn","language_code":"es"}}, {"id":"8305888286_408773583286","language":{"script_code":"latn","language_code":"en"}}, {"id":"8305888286_408770763286","language":{"script_code":"latn","language_code":"de"}} ]
Enriched output:
curl -E semiocast-api.pem:PASSWORD -d output=enriched --data-urlencode data@fb_feed.json "https://api.semiocast.com/1/analyze/facebook.json"

{"data":[ {"id":"8305888286_408784993286",...,"message":"feliz dia aesssoo dinosaurios del rock..., "annotations":[{"language":{"script_code":"latn","language_code":"es"}}]}, {"id":"8305888286_408773583286",...,"message":"I just cain't get no satisfaction of endlessly..., "annotations":[{"language":{"script_code":"latn","language_code":"en"}}]}, {"id":"8305888286_408770763286",...,"message":"hab hier was grou00dfartiges fu00fcr alle ..., "annotations":[{"language":{"script_code":"latn","language_code":"de"}}]}], "paging":...}

Get a user profile:

curl "https://graph.facebook.com/arjun" > profile.json

Analyze it to identify user location:

curl curl -E semiocast-api.pem:PASSWORD --data-urlencode data@profile.json https://api.semiocast.com/1/analyze/facebook.json

{"location":{"country_code":"US","city_name":"San Francisco"}}

Get a list of profiles thanks to a list of ids:

curl "https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=arjun,vernal" > profiles.json

or thanks to your friend list:

curl "https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?access_token=YOUR_TOKEN" > profiles.json

Analyze them to get their locations:

curl curl -E semiocast-api.pem:PASSWORD --data-urlencode data@profiles.json https://api.semiocast.com/1/analyze/facebook.json

[{"id":"7901103","location":{"country_code":"US","city_name":"San Francisco"}}, {"id":"9074","location":null}]