Facebook Open Sources Insights Script For Developers

If you are a developer that read about yesterday’s Facebook Insights announcement but want examples of tools that can be implemented, look no further than Facebook’s open source Insights API sample that was released yesterday. It’s a short Python script which lets a user download the analytics from their Pages, applications, and websites into a CSV file. It’s pretty basic, but it illustrates the potential of the new Facebook Insights.

The application, which runs on Google AppEngine, uses the Facebook Graph API to pull data from Facebook.