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FaceBook-Scraper [2020]

Scrape posts from any group or user into a .csv file without needing to register for any API access


How to use it?

Firstly, make sure you have selenium >= 3.141.0, GeckoDriver and FireFox installed.

Store your email and password for Facebook login in credentials.txt.

Use scraper.py to collect the data.

usage: fb-scraper/scraper.py [-h] [--pages PAGES [PAGES ...]] [--groups GROUPS [GROUPS ...]][-d DEPTH]
Data Collection
arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p, --pages PAGES [PAGES ...]
                        List the pages you want to scrape
                        for recent posts
  
  -g, --groups GROUPS [GROUPS ...]
                        List the groups you want to scrape
                        for recent posts
  
  -d DEPTH, --depth DEPTH
                        How many recent posts you want to gather in
                        multiples of (roughly) 8.

Example: python scraper.py --pages feelzesty -d 20


The output is posts.csv inside the script folder.

Output is in three columns: PosterName(Author), uTime and Text

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facebook-scraper-selenium's Issues

How to run?

These are the steps I did

  1. installed selenium using pip install -U selenium
  2. downloaded geckodriver and put it under fb-scraper folder
  3. created credentials.txt under fb-scraper folder - what is the structure of the values inside the credentails.txt?
  4. python3 scraper.py --pages feelzesty -d 20 - nothing happens.

How to make it run?

block ban of facebook account?

it seems fairly difficult creating a dummy facebook account

will this program cause blocking or banning of the facebook account? any good approach to get a dummy account?

Decrease loading time by not loading images

I found this option which may be useful:

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", {"profile.managed_default_content_settings.images": 2})

It prevents Chrome from downloading images, increasing page load speed. This may be useful in some cases...

scraping public posts by keywords?

great scraper for me, really useful, thank you.

Any chance to scrape all public posts starting from a specific "keyword" search, instead a specific page?

For ex.: python scraper.py -k Play Station 5 -d 20

Hope already exists something like that.

Thank you very much

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