Extracting data from the Facebook social graph with expressor, a Tutorial by Michael Tarallo.
From the post:
In my last article,Enterprise Application Integration with Social Networking Data, I describe how social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, provide APIs to communicate with the various components available in these applications. One in particular, is their “social graph” API which enables software developers to create programs that can interface with the many “objects” stored within these graphs.
In this article, I will briefly review the Facebook social graph and provide a simple tutorial with an expressor downloadable project. I will cover how expressor can extract data using the Facebook graph API and flatten it by using the provided reusable Datascript Module. I will also demonstrate how to add new user defined attributes to the expressor Dataflow so one can customize the output needed.
Looks interesting.
Seems appropriate after starting today’s posts with work on the ODP files.
As you know, I am not a big fan of ETL but it has been a survivor. And if the folks who are signing off on the design want ETL, maybe it isn’t all that weird. 😉