Non-API-FaceBook-Scraper [2019]

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

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How to use it?

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

Use scraper.py to collect the data.

usage: scrape.py [-h] [--pages PAGES [PAGES ...]] [-d DEPTH]
Data Collection
arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --pages PAGES [PAGES ...]
                        List the pages 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 DonaldTrump senatorsanders -d 20

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The output is posts.csv inside the script folder.