My question involves learning how to retrieve my entire list of friends using Facebook's Python API. The current result returns an object with limited number of friends and a link to the 'next' page. How do I use this to fetch the next set of friends ? (Please post the link to possible duplicates) Any help would be much appreciated. In general, I need to learn about the pagination involved the API usage.

import facebook
import jsonACCESS_TOKEN = "my_token"g = facebook.GraphAPI(ACCESS_TOKEN)print json.dumps(g.get_connections("me","friends"),indent=1)

Sadly the documentation of pagination is an open issue since almost 2 years. You should be able to paginate like this (based on this example) using requests:

import facebook
import requestsACCESS_TOKEN = "my_token"
graph = facebook.GraphAPI(ACCESS_TOKEN)
friends = graph.get_connections("me","friends")allfriends = []# Wrap this block in a while loop so we can keep paginating requests until
# finished.
while(True):try:for friend in friends['data']:allfriends.append(friend['name'].encode('utf-8'))# Attempt to make a request to the next page of data, if it exists.friends=requests.get(friends['paging']['next']).json()except KeyError:# When there are no more pages (['paging']['next']), break from the# loop and end the script.break
print allfriends

Update: There's a new generator method available which implements above behavior and can be used to iterate over all friends like this:

for friend in graph.get_all_connections("me", "friends"):# Do something with this friend.