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Getting fields from GraphQL

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#468 opened on Sep 1, 2019

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Description

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I'm trying to figure out how to get all the fields from facebook's schema definition.

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Currently, I can get data on a facebook group with the following fragment: QueryFragment Group: Group { id, name, url, description, privacy_info { icon_name, label { text }, description }, group_topic_tags, discoverability_info { icon_name, description { text }, label { text } } } I know the fields from:

  1. common sense
  2. looking at network traffic on the browser
  3. guessing names simular to facebook-offical-graph-api

I'd like to know if there's a way to get all the fields? I've looked into introspection queries without much success, but I'm not very experienced with GraphQL

Thank you for this repository, I've found a lot of usefull information and help from here!

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Research direction
Use a GraphQL introspection query (e.g., `{ schema { types { name fields { name } } } }`) in Python to retrieve all fields from the Facebook GraphQL endpoint. Implement a simple script with `requests` to send a POST request to the GraphQL endpoint with the introspection query and parse the JSON response.
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pythongraphql
Domain
api
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2
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1-3 hours
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Needs investigation
Prerequisites
PythonGraphQL
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70