Flask Facebook API

Provides

• Server side authentication & permissions request for Facebook canvas apps
• Helper methods for FQL and graph api flaskext.fbapi.api fbapi_get_*
• Simple query profiling decorator duration_dump
• Function retry decorator (useful for FB API calls) retry_on_exception
• Application access token retrieval fbapi_get_application_access_token

Configuration

Configuration is taken from current_app.config.

FBAPI_SCOPE - list/tuple of access privileges
FBAPI_APP_URI - URI for our canvas app through Facebook
FBAPI_APP_ID
FBAPI_APP_SECRET
FBAPI_ACCESS_TOKEN_STORAGE - defaults to redis store
FBAPI_REDIS_DB - defaults to 1
FBAPI_REDIS_HOST - defaults to localhost
FBAPI_REDIS_PORT - defaults to 6379

Usage

Initialization

from flaskext.fbapi import FbApi

def main():
    app.config.from_object(config.DevelopmentConfig)
    FbApi(app)
    app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=8000)

Usage. All view methods that use access_token, initiate/terminate oauth shall be wrapped with fbapi_authentication_required decorator.

@app.route('/',methods=['GET','POST'])
@fbapi_authentication_required
def select_match():
	return 'Select Match'

Access_token storage

Some backend is required to store access_tokens. At this point one is implemented: flaskext.fbapi.storage.redis. In case of different redis schema or a different backend please define a new class and configure FbApi.