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Description:

djangofacebookrealtime 0.1.120130208

A reusable app to interact with facebook real-time updates (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/realtime/)

Features

add/remove a subscription to changes in data in facebook
list all subscriptions
receive facebook real-time updates

Requirements
python, django, requests

Installation

pip install git+git://github.com/rmaceissoft/django-facebook-realtime.git
Add "dj_facebook_realtime" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting
Add FACEBOOK_APP_ID, FACEBOOK_API_SECRET and FACEBOOK_REALTIME_VERIFY_TOKEN settings
Wire up the views by adding a line to your URLconf:
url(r'facebook/subscriptions/', include('dj_facebook_realtime.urls')),

Make sure that current Site has a right domain value due to it’s used to build callback url used to verify subscriptions

Example of use

Adding a subscription
adding a subscription for changes on user’s friends and feed connections
python manage.py realtime_subscriptions_add --object_type=user --fields=friends,feed

Removing subscriptions
removing all existent subscriptions only for users
python manage.py realtime_subscriptions_delete --object_type=user

Listing all subscriptions
python manage.py realtime_subscriptions_list

Retrieving updates with facebook data changes
Below a snippet of code to handling realtime_update signal provided by django-facebook-realtime to keep posted of facebook changes through facebook realtime service:
from django.dispatch import receiver
from dj_facebook_realtime.signals import realtime_update

@receiver(realtime_update)
def handler_new_facebook_change(sender, object_type, uid, changed_fields, time, **kwargs):
"""
handle facebook changes detected through facebook's real-time update service
"""
if object_type == 'user':
# make some action for changes related to facebook users
elif object_type == 'page':
# make some action for changes related to facebook pages