Python, Facebook Graph API -- AttributeError: 'GraphAPI' object has no attribute 'search'

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import facebook
graph = facebook.GraphAPI(access_token="your token",version="2.7")

From the Facebook SDK python page, I got the following code:

# Search for places near 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park, California.
places = graph.search(type='place',
                      center='37.4845306,-122.1498183',
                      fields='name,location')

# Each given id maps to an object the contains the requested fields.
for place in places['data']:
    print('%s %s' % (place['name'].encode(),place['location'].get('zip')))

Here's the link.

It doesn't work however. I don't get why. The error reads

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-21-56959958831f> in <module>()
      1 # Search for places near 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park, California.
----> 2 places = graph.search(type='place',
      3                       center='37.4845306,-122.1498183',
      4                       fields='name,location')
      5 

AttributeError: 'GraphAPI' object has no attribute 'search'

What does this mean? Why would the example not work? I can't seem to find documentation on the specifics of how the GraphAPI class is structured, but I assume search is part of this.

Which user-contributed facebook python sdk are you working with? Can you pip freeze | grep facebook and share the package name and version? — Oluwafemi Sule
– Oluwafemi Sule, Commented Sep 17, 2017 at 8:22

phwd · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-18 14:00:37Z

6

This is because the package owner hasn't updated with an official release for this SDK since 2016.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/facebook-sdk

So the latest version for you is 2.0.0.

pip freeze | grep "facebook-sdk"
facebook-sdk==2.0.0

If you want to continue using this package you will need to follow the installation instructions for the git repo instead.

virtualenv facebookenv
source facebookenv/bin/activate
pip install -e git+https://github.com/mobolic/facebook-sdk.git#egg=facebook-sdk

Then in Python, you should be able to use it normally

>>> import facebook
>>> graph = facebook.GraphAPI(access_token="YOUR_TOKEN", version="2.10")
>>> graph.search(type='place', center='37.4845306,-122.1498183', fields='name,location')
{u'paging': {u'cursors': {u'after': u'MjQZD'}, u'next': u'https://graph.facebook.com/v2.10/search?access_token=YOUR_TOKEN&fields=name%2Clocation&type=place&center=37.4845306%2C-122.1498183&limit=25&after=MjQZD'}, u'data': [{u'id': u'166793820034304', u'name': u'Facebook HQ', u'location': {u'city': u'Menlo Park', u'zip': u'94025', u'country': u'United States', u'longitude': -122.1501, u'state': u'CA', u'street': ...

answered Sep 18, 2017 at 14:00

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David Findlay Over a year ago

Just did this here, still get the same GraphAPI error

phwd Over a year ago

@DavidFindlay Without extra details, I'm not sure what to reply here. Version 2.0.0 fixes the AttributeError, for generic GraphAPI errors it probably means you don't have the correct call.

jaismeensandhu · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-18 04:21:06Z

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I had the same issue with wall-post command and facebook-sdk 3+ didn't work so

pip install facebook-sdk==2.0.0 fixed the issue

pip uninstall facebook-sdk
pip install facebook-sdk==2.0.0

answered May 18, 2020 at 4:21

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