Flask is a Framework of Python that allows us to build up web-applications. It was developed by Armin Ronacher. Flask’s framework is more explicit than Django’s framework and is also easier to learn because it has less base code to implement a simple web-Application. This article revolves around how to integrate Facebook comments plugin in flask application
Installation
pip install flask
How to integrate facebook comments in Flask ?
Create new file app.py
Python3
from flask import Flask,render_template app = Flask(__name__) @app.route("/") def home(): return render_template("index.html") if __name__ == '__main__': app.run(debug=True) |
Go to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments/, and Add the post link you are looking to add comments plugin for,
Click on get code
Create new directory templates inside that create new html file index.html
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title></title> <div id="fb-root"></div> <script async defer crossorigin="anonymous" nonce="ihqHhvna"></script> </head> <body> <h1>Welcome To GFG</h1> data-width="" data-numposts="5"></div> </body> </html> |
If we change the url the comments are also changed.
To see this lets create new file index1.html
index1.html
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title></title> <div id="fb-root"></div> <script async defer crossorigin="anonymous" nonce="ihqHhvna"></script> </head> <body> <h1>Again Welcome To GFG</h1> data-width="" data-numposts="5"></div> </body> </html> |
app.py
Python3
from flask import Flask,render_template app = Flask(__name__) @app.route("/") def index(): return render_template("index.html") @app.route("/home") def home(): return render_template("index1.html") if __name__ == '__main__': app.run(debug=True) |
To run this app open terminal or cmd
python app.py
Output :-
To add like and share field go to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button, do the same process
Click on get code
Create new html file inside the templates directory
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>GFG</title> <div id="fb-root"></div> <script async defer crossorigin="anonymous" nonce="4HOL61En"></script> </head> <body> <h1>Like and Share</h1> data-width="" data-layout="button_count" data-action="like" data-size="large" data-share="true"></div> </body> </html> |
Add new function to you function to your app.py
Python3
@app.route("/likeandshare") def likeandshare(): return render_template("Likeandshare.html") |
Then again run app using command
python3 app.py
Output :-
