fbAlert is a python program that monitors a facebook page and prints out a message when someone likes -and dislikes, the page. The program is running on a Raspberry Pi and is flashing a LED trough the GPIOs.
The LED is connected to ground and to pin 7. Raspberry Pi is connected to internet through Ethernet cable.
You need to have the RPI.GPIO module for python on the Raspberry Pi. To install it, SSH into the RPi and run:
$ wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/R/RPi.GPIO/RPi.GPIO-0.1.0.tar.gz
$ tar zxf RPi.GPIO-0.1.0.tar.gz
$ cd RPi.GPIO-0.1.0
$ sudo python setup.py install
A new version is out, but the program should work with this version of GPIO.
We also use requests for checking the page for updates.
$ pip install requests
Tips: Comment out RPi specific libraries to test on computer.