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Python Facebook Scraper

Facebook Scraping

It used to be possible using the Facebook API to loop through all of the content on pages for users, posts , comments and all of the associated media. IT was not very difficult if you knew what you were doing. This been shut down for obvious reasons. So what is a dataminer to do if he or she wants to grab some posts.

There is a work around. You can hookup python and clone various projects from git that use python facebook-scraper Facebook Scraper

Some of the projects listed on the page work well with only minor mods. Kind of fun and potentially usefull for machine learning projects.

Published Jul 20, 2020