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I am trying to run a basic example with the Facebook SDK for Python. I tried doing exactly what this tutorial does from the command line (with "pip install facebook" and "pip install facebook-sdk" successfully done first...):

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import Facebook works okay, but graph = facebook.GraphAPI() gives the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'GraphAPI'

I'm not imtimately familiar with how modules work, but it looks like facebook somehow isn't recognized at all! Or something else is missing here. From the command line, I tried these things to investigate:

>>>dir(facebook)

Output:

['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__version__']

and...

>>>help(facebook)

Output:

Help on package facebook:

NAME
    facebook - TODO: Document your package.

FILE
    /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Facebook-0.0-py2.7.egg/facebook/__init__.py

PACKAGE CONTENTS


DATA
    __loader__ = <zipimporter object "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Fa...
    __version__ = 'TODO: Enter a version'

VERSION
    TODO: Enter a version

(END)

...But I'm still stuck. Do I need to "enter a version" to somehow get the thing to fully instantiate? Or could it be something else?

norman
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I had the same problem when messing around with facebook-sdk for python the first time. It occured I named my python file "facebook.py", and made unconsiously a name clash.

user3878801
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If you are using Ubuntu or Debian, Just execute the following commands to get this working

sudo pip uninstall facebook
sudo pip uninstall facebook-sdk
sudo pip install facebook-sdk

For other operating systems, just remove facebook and facebook-sdk packages and install only facebook-sdk.

And then execute that program, it will work. Looks like facebook module is a dummy module. What we actually need is facebook-sdk only.

thefourtheye
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    I still get "cannot import name Facebook" error. is it deprecated? – Kuber Feb 13 '15 at 05:31
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    I uninstalled and reinstalled as suggested. I can't import facebook-sdk only import facebook. When I import facebook and use facebook.GraphAPI I get the same error reported above. – Nick Duddy May 25 '17 at 15:45
  • I had an issue where the files were not being removed, despite `pip2 uninstall` and the `apt remove --purge`. I had to manually remove the files, as in the answer provided by @Meistro. – dannysauer Aug 28 '18 at 21:17
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I tried what @thefourtheye suggested but pip wasn't uninstalling everything. Instead, I just cleaned out the Facebook packages via 

rm -rf /path/to/my/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/facebook* && rm -rf /path/to/my/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Facebook*

WARNING: check that you don't have any other packages that start with facebook before you go removing anything. In my case I had

facebook/    
Facebook-0.0-py2.7.egg-info/   
facebook.py    
facebook.pyc 
facebook_sdk-0.4.0-py2.7.egg-info/
Meistro
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  • I prefer to run `ls -r` first, then recall the command and change `ls` to `rm`. :) So; `ls -r /path/to/my/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/[fF]acebook*` first, then just change the ls to rm (the `-f` isn't necessary with rm in most cases). – dannysauer Aug 28 '18 at 21:19
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I had the same problem. I renamed the file from facebook.py to first.py and it worked! So, my conclusion is don't save file with a module name.

Kartik Prajapati
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I checked everything because i had the same problem, i uninstalled and installed as the the recommendations, i checked if there is another file, package facebook, and no worked, then i saw i had this in my program graph = facebook.GraphApi(token) , ....Api.. A uppercase and the following letters lowercase, then I typed like this, Result graph = facebook.GraphAPI(token) , API uppercase all of them, now after i validated access token and checked other little bug everything was working PERFECTLY.

Good luck.

Felipe R Valera
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