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Asked: 2026-05-14T21:53:07+00:00

I am building a website for a comedy group which uses Facebook as one

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I am building a website for a comedy group which uses Facebook as one of their marketing platforms; one of the requirements for the new site is to display all of their Facebook events on a calendar.

Currently, I am just trying to put together a Python script which can pull some data from my own Facebook account, like a list of all my friends. I presume once I can accomplish this I can move to pulling more complicated data out of my clients account (since they have given me access to their account).

I have looked at many of the posts here, and also went through the Facebook API documentation, including Facebook Connect, but am really beating my head against the wall. Everything I have read seems like overkill, as it involves setting up a good deal of infrastructure to allow my app to set up connections to any arbitrary user’s account (who authorizes me). Shouldn’t it be much simpler, given I only ever need to access 1 account?

I cannot find a way to retrieve data without having to display the Facebook login window. I have a script which will retrieve all my friends, but it includes a redirect where I have to physically log myself in to Facebook.

Would appreciate any advice or links, I just feel like I must be missing something simple.

Thank you!

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  1. Editorial Team

    It is true, that Facebook’s API is targeted at developers who are creating apps that will be used by many users.

    Thankfully, the new Graph API is much simpler to use than its predecessor, and shouldn’t be terribly difficult for you to work with without using or creating a lot of underlying infrastructure.

    You will need to implement authorization, but this is not difficult, and as long as you prompt the user for the offline_access permission, it’ll only need to be done once.

    The documentation on Desktop Authentication would probably be most relevant to you at this point, though you might want to move to the javascript-based authentication once you’ve got a web app up and running.

    Once the authentication is done, all you’re doing is making GET requests to various urls and working with the resulting JSON.

    Here’s the documentation about Events, and you can get a list of friends from the friends connection of a User.

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