Explore Facebook Events as a Datasource

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Explore Facebook Events as a Datasource #95

Closed RyanMarten closed 4 years ago

RyanMarten commented 4 years ago

Acceptance Criteria:

Identify what data Facebook Events can provide for our application
Identify what the terms of service is for Facebook Events (is web crawling allowed?, can we use the API for commercial purposes?, is there a cost involved in polling the API?)
Locate documentation for any existing APIs
Manually record data for a few example businesses to be used as mock data for our application that is representative of what the website can provide.

RyanMarten commented 4 years ago

User Terms of Service https://www.facebook.com/terms.php

Section 3.2.3 "You may not access or collect data from our Products using automated means (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data you do not have permission to access."

RyanMarten commented 4 years ago

Developer Terms of Service: https://developers.facebook.com/policy/

ribhav99 commented 4 years ago

Looking at Facebook's graph API, I think it will be really hard for us to do anything with it since most of the documentation has now been deprecated and unfortunately the methods that have been removed don't say so so you only find out once you try them...

Looking at their terms of service, we can't even use a scraper so this really seems to be a problem