benedict-erwin / fbrecog

An unofficial python wrapper for the Facebook face recognition endpoint

fbrecog

An unofficial python wrapper for the Facebook face recognition endpoint

fbrecog is a python wrapper that uses Facebook's face recognition to recognize faces in pictures.

How-To:

1. Install fbrecog from pip pip install fbrecog
2. Now simply import the recognize method from fbrecog module from fbrecog import recognize
3. The recognize method takes 4 input args and returns an array of recognitions.
4. To get the access token simply go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer and get a user access token with user_photos, publish_actions and user_posts permissions.
5. Get your Facebook cookie and fb_dtsg token as follows:

• Go to your Facebook profile.

• Open chrome dev tools by Right Click > Inspect

• Upload any picture. As it gets uploaded monitor the Network tab for 'dpr?' endpoint.

• Click on it. Scroll down to Request Header. Copy the entire cookie string.

• Scroll further down to Form Data. Copy the value of fb_dtsg parameter.

6. Call the recognize method with the following parameters.

from fbrecog import recognize
path = '1.jpg' #Insert your image file path here
access_token = '#######' #Insert your access token obtained from Graph API explorer here
cookie = '###' #Insert your cookie string here
fb_dtsg = '###' #Insert the fb_dtsg parameter obtained from Form Data here.
print(recognize(path,access_token,cookie,fb_dtsg))

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