Facebook Birthday Response

Python script that automatically thanks all users and like their birthday wishes on your timeline

Author

Rishi Dua [email protected]

How to use

Configure parameters and run the script:

• bday: your birthday as in the following datetime(year, month, day[, hour[, minute[, second[, microsecond[, tzinfo]]]]])
• access_token: Generate one at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer
• like: set true to like posts on your wall
• comment: set true to comment thank you
• message_set: the list of messages from which you want a random message to be selected
• use_filter: if false, replies to every message. Make it false if you are sure every wish posted on your wall is a birthday message
• bdaywords: keywords to respond to. Comment only on posts containing at least one of these words
• proxy settings: proxy settings if you are behind a proxy server

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/rishirdua/facebook-birthday-response/
• Source Code: github.com/rishirdua/facebook-birthday-response
• Project page: http://rishirdua.github.io/facebook-birthday-response

Support

If you are having issues, contact me directly.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENCE.txt for details

Disclaimer

I wrote this code for fun on my 22nd Birthday (25 August 2014). It was one of the best birthdays thanks to friends and every birthday wish means a lot. My blog has a post about it.

Credits

Idea inspired from a post on quora: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-Python-scripts-youve-ever-written The code in that post uses FQL which is deprecated after v2.1. This implementation uses Facebook Graph API.