Facebook Imports performance concerns

[Cristina]

Hello there!

I’m using this plugin and so far so good. My concern is about performance, as I’m planning to use it to import events from loads of different Facebook pages. Loads means that potentially can be more than 100 facebook pages.
Since I want to charge my users for having the possibility to have their events imported in my site, I’m not sure about the performance, since now with around 20-25 facebook pages the import it’s already taking several minutes to process.

Can you tell me if the tool would work ok for such amount of data to be imported?

thanks and regards
Cristina

[George]

Hey @Cristina,

Thanks for reaching out!

As you noticed already with your imports of 20-25 pages, imports of this size can take several minutes or longer. However, there isn’t really an upper limit, and so, in theory, as long as you leave the importer alone when an import is running and just let it run (i.e. you don’t exit the page and such), it should work.

One potential limitation is a response timeout from Facebook’s API itself, which we unfortunately cannot get around and don’t have control over 🙁 If this happens, your import should stop at some point, but all the events up to that point should’ve been imported fine and you should be able to take the rest of your pages and resume the import. We’ve got some code in place to try and prevent event duplicates from importing, so duplicates shouldn’t be a problem.

Does this information help at all? Let me know! 🙂 And let me know if you have any further questions or thoughts on all this.

Thank you!
George

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