Adding a subscription

adding a subscription for changes on user’s friends and feed connections

python manage.py realtime_subscriptions_add --object_type=user --fields=friends,feed

Removing subscriptions

removing all existent subscriptions only for users

python manage.py realtime_subscriptions_delete --object_type=user

Listing all subscriptions

python manage.py realtime_subscriptions_list

Retrieving updates with facebook data changes

Below a snippet of code to handling realtime_update signal provided by django-facebook-realtime to keep posted of facebook changes through facebook realtime service:

from django.dispatch import receiver
from dj_facebook_realtime.signals import realtime_update


@receiver(realtime_update)
def handler_new_facebook_change(sender, object_type, uid, changed_fields, time, **kwargs):
    """
    handle facebook changes detected through facebook's real-time update service
    """
    if object_type == 'user':
        # make some action for changes related to facebook users
    elif object_type == 'page':
        # make some action for changes related to facebook pages