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akaessens / NoFbEventScraper

This app scrapes Facebook event links and adds the event to your calendar.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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scrape a page or a group #20

Closed bmrz2019 closed 4 years ago

bmrz2019 commented 4 years ago

The app is great. I am wondering if the same can be done to scrap and follow a public group.

example: https://www.facebook.com/groups/InstantPotCommunity/

Would it be possible to repeat something like: https://github.com/austinhuang0131/instagrabber in your scraper. (obviously only public - and no login - type group or persons).

thanks for your great work!

akaessens commented 4 years ago

Hi @treble2019 , thank you!

The purpose of this application is not to replace the whole "facebook experience" with an open source alternative client, this would probably be very difficult to maintain. A quick look into instagrabber does show the difficulties with keeping up with instagram's API and i have huge respect to his/their commitment.

For browsing through it, there are many wrapper apps available.

I've written this app, because the only thing that kept me on that network was their events and i often receive some links to them.

If you are referring to events inside groups or pages (like this) , i think it might be interesting to look more into it. This would of course mean huge changes and will take me quite some time.

I found Hypezig, which does scrape facebook pages, but it is using the facebook API to collect events.

bmrz2019 commented 4 years ago

Thank you for the suggestions!