Posts

A repository that includes all EgyptianGeeks group posts.

Purpose

The purpose of this repository is to have the graph API dump for EgyptianGeeks group without any post-processing, also the download script can run on any group specified in the environment file .env, so a fork can be done for any other group.

Content

• posts/ : all posts in YAML format, dumped from facebook graph API
• download : a ruby script that download group posts to posts/

Requirements

• Ruby 2.5.0
• Facebook application

Installation

• Install dependencies

  bundle install
  

• Create a facebook application

• Copy .env.sample to .env

  cp .env.sample .env
  

• Set variables values in .env

• Execute download at well

  env `cat .env` ./download
  

How it works

• download will use your application id and secret to acquire application access token
• the application access token will be used to get all posts in the group specified in .env
• the script will get posts in batches of 100 post per page, with all likes and comments
• for each post a file will be writen with the post object converted to YAML, file name is the post ID

Updating posts Directory

• fork this repository
• clone it to your machine
• create a branch
• run download script
• keep it running for couple pages then kill it
• commit all new posts
• open a PR with your update

Using this download script for other groups

• Fork this repository

• Delete all files in posts

  rm posts/*
  

• Put your group ID in .env

• Run download script

• Commit all your posts

  git add posts/
  git commit -m"group posts for <your group name>"
  git push origin master
  

• To update the script in case you want to be up to date, create a branch in you repo pointing to this repo master, pull it and cherry-pick the commit you want to your branch.