Facebook Data Extraction using R Programming

This blog introduces you to the importance of R Analytics and R programming language in order to analyze your Facebook’s account data. After reading this blog, you will get to know how easy it is to fetch your Facebook’s data into RStudio that is tool for data analysis.

We have a lot of data on Facebook. Just think about your own Facebook account. How many friends you have? How many friends of friends you have? Definitely the answer is “so many”. Have you ever thought about analyzing that generated data from Facebook into Rstudio? If not, it’s time to begin now.

 

Advantage of applying R Analytics on Facebook Data : 

1. Bring data from Facebook into RStudio and shape your data with beautiful graphs
2. Analyze your data with so many statistical packages that are available in the library of R
3. Analyze the information about your friends and their life, simply by bringing that data into RStudio
4. RStudio provides you ease of bringing the data from Facebook in order to end with useful insights.

Steps of connecting Facebook with RStudio

 

Step 1: Login your Facebook account, and Go to this link in another tab

“https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/”

You will get a window like this:

Step 2: Look at the red circle in the image, go to that part and make it “Unversioned”

Step 3:  Now, look at the Green circle in the image, go to that part and click on Get Token. Another window will open up like shown below:

 

Step 4: Check all the check boxes and click Get Access Token. A token will be generated which will be valid for two hours from the time of generation. After two hours again you need to refresh it or regenerate it.

Now, steps with Facebook API have been done, it’s time to open RStudio. Now, you need to run couple of commands and you will be able to bring data from Facebook into RStudio.

> token <-“abcXYZ123465mnpl ”

> myInfo <- getUsers(“me”, token=token)

 

> myInfo$name

 Now your connection to Facebook and RStudio has established for next two hours. You can now extract information from your Facebook account. Let’s say you want to fetch current locations of your friends with their name and cities.

> myFriends <- getFriends(token, simplify=T)

> myFriends_info <- getUsers(myFriends$id, token=token, private_info=T)

 

> table(myFriends_info$location)

 

This will let you analyze the information of locations of your friends in RStudio in a quick timestamp. If you want to understand more about this package and the functions that I have used in this blog, you can simply use the help feature of RStudio.

   

> ?Rfacebook

  

OR

 > ??Rfacebook

 

Hope you find Big Data Analytics with R an interesting topic!

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