The FacebookImporter for Shark is an extension for the Shark Framework. It's enables developers to build Facebook importers for the SharkKnowledgeBase by providing an API for building extendable Facebook importers which requests data from Facebook's GraphAPI and imports this data into a Shark KnowledgeBase.

• Execution environment for Facebook importers
• API binding for Facebook's Graph API (Based on Spring Social Facebook)
• Model Classes for Facebook's Graph API
• Login for Facebook's Graph API
• ContextPoint Data binding
• Example Importer which:
  • imports the currently logged in user as Peer Semantic Tag
  • imports it's friends
  • imports it's family relationships
  • imports it's significant other relationship
  • imports it's public posts

In order to build the facebook importer you need a installed Java SE Runtime Environment 8 or alternatively a installed Java SE Development Kit 8 and optional a installed Gradle>=2.4 but this only a recommendation the build script could be used without any gradle installation.

The Facebook importer comes with a Gradle build script which is responsible to build the importer. The build script can be executed by any major IDE which provides a Gradle integration. If your are a NetBeans user then give GradleSupport a try.

If your prefer the use of the command line then you could use gradle itself or the gradle wrapper (gradlew) which is shipped with the source code of the importer. In order to run the importer use the following commands:

# Use this command when you have already installed gradle 2.4 >=
gralde run

# Use this command when you don't have installed gradle 
./gradlew run
# or for window users:
gradlew.bat run

For more details how to use Gradle please visit the Gradle Getting Started Guide.