Notes and activities from a Google+ page

After searching for a Google+ page and visualizing the results in a web GUI, we will proceed to download a list of activities for a given page. Activities are the Google+ equivalent of Facebook posts. By default, an activity is considered to be a note, that is, a piece of text shared on Google+.

The following script, gplus_get_page_activities.py, is used to collect a list of activities from a Google+ page:

# Chap05/gplus_get_page_activities.py 
import os 
import json 
from argparse import ArgumentParser 
from apiclient.discovery import build 
 
def get_parser(): 
  parser = ArgumentParser() 
  parser.add_argument('--page') 
  parser.add_argument('--max-results', type=int, default=100) 
  return parser 
 
if __name__ == '__main__': 
  api_key = os.environ.get('GOOGLE_API_KEY') 
  parser = get_parser() 
  args = parser.parse_args() 
 
  service = build('plus', 
                  'v1', 
                  developerKey=api_key) 
 
  activity_feed = service...