Analyzing Facebook

Question 1

Facebook provides three APIs

Answer 1

Atlas API for partners and advertisers;
Graph API: The primary way for apps to read and write to the Facebook social graph
Marketing API: To build solutions for marketing automation with Facebook’s advertising platform

Question 2

Graph API related to

Answer 2

the structure of the platform

Question 3

a social graph is composed of

Answer 3

node: all the main elements
edges: connection/ relationship between nodes
fields: attributes that nodes or edges can have

Question 4

endpoint

Answer 4

for Graph API, permits to access the Facebook resources. We have to specify which node we want to query and the other parameters we send to the API

Question 5

steps to access facebook content

Answer 5

creating application and getting an access token
selecting the endpoint;
connect to the API