Facebook Events

Collects all Facebook events of all groups a user is in a text and html file.

Result: https://christianbrugger.github.io/events.cbrugger/index.html

How to run:

First collect all events by running:

python get_all_events.py

This will generate the file all_event_ids.txt containing all event ids.

Then run

python get_event_times.py

This will collect all event times in all_event_times.txt.

Then run

python parse_events_from_file.py

This will generate the text and html file events.txt and events_*.html.

Also the index.html is updated.

Alternatively you can run

run_all.bat

This will run all the above commands in sequence.

Credentials:

Copy the file credentials_template.py and name it credentials.py.

Enter your Facebook username and password.

If you want to use the facebook-sdk, first create a user access token on the following site https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer. Allowed all permissions for simplicity.

Dependencies:

It is best to use a virtual environment with all the dependencies. You can do this by:

python -m venv env
.\env\Scripts\activate
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Python 3.5+

The main interpreter. Get the latest version.

tested with version 3.7.3 64bit

Dateutil

Used to parse dates and times. Get the latest version

python -m pip install python-dateutil

tested with version 2.8.0

Facebook SDK

Not used right now. If you want to use it, get the latest version

python -m pip install facebook-sdk

tested with version 2019.6.16

Selenium for Python

Used to drive chrome from python.

python -m pip install selenium

tested with version 3.141.0

Chrome

Latest Chrome browser. Used to retrieve most of the information.

tested with 76.0.3809.87 (64-bit) on Windows 10

Chromedriver

Used to control chrome programatically.

A chromedriver.exe matching your Chrome version from

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/

I put the chromedriver.exe in the same directory as the python files.

tested with version 75.0.3770.140

Travis

Generate github token with permission public_repo at https://github.com/settings/tokens under developer settings. Store this token in travis as environment variable in the project settings.