What is a Facebook API? A Facebook API is an application programming interface. These interfaces allow developers to connect their platforms with important Facebook management features available directly through Facebook servers. The API provides developers with the source code necessary to connect, eliminating the need to code these features …
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What are Facebook Scraper Tools and Why Are They Used?
Facebook became the first-ever social network to surpass one billion users and currently has over 2.7 billion active monthly users. For this reason, business entities, social scientists, and researchers have found Facebook a great source of learning social behaviors and the impact of social media platforms in society. Data from Facebook, if …
Using the Facebook API with Ruby to Build a COVID-19 Statistics Bot
The COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing and it has brought along with itself a plethora of data, which is being made available by various APIs. In this article, we'd like to take advantage of one of them, and at the same time teach you how to build a simple Facebook Messenger Bot in the process. What we'll build We're going to build a Messenger …