• The scraper should only be used for educational purposes
• Kindly refrain from scraping sensitive or private information
• Ask for consent from the group adminstrator and/or group members before running any code
• I am not responsible for any misuse of the code in any shape or form

Extract Facebook group posts that are related to a specific topic and write them to a .json file. This project was created in order to gather data needed to build a chatbot for a university's website.

• User's Credentials
• Facebook Group URL
• Number of Scrolls
  • Number of posts you want to collect
• Directory of the Chromedriver
• Optional: Specific topic to be searched

• Logs into Facebook using the User's Credentials
• Enters the group specified by the User
• Searches for the topic
• Extracts all posts & their comments

.json file that includes:

• Each post
  
• The comments replying to it

{ 
   "tag": "Topic 1",
   "patterns":  [ "Post text" ],
   "responses": [ "Comment 1", 
        "Comment 2",
        "Comment 3"  
    ]
}

1. Make sure chrome is installed
2. Install Chromedriver and place it in the same directory as the file
3. Install Selenium Library (for anaconda cmd use: conda install -c anaconda selenium)
4. Install Beautiful Soup (for anaconda cmd use: conda install -c anaconda beautifulsoup4)
5. Enter inputs required by the code
6. Run the code

• Scrape comments found in "view more comments"
• Add a file for inputs only
• Add comments to the code
• Add an option to scrape the general group discussions and not specific topics