brutalsavage / facebook-post-scraper

Facebook Post Scraper 🕵️🖱️
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[REQUEST]: Scrape comments without being logged in #25

Closed Scrapehouse closed 4 years ago

Scrapehouse commented 4 years ago

Hey everybody and thank you for this great piece of software!

However, I have a feature request, because scraping a lot of posts with many comments may lead to fast blocks/deactivation of whole scraping accounts. And creating new facebook accounts (which each might need a fresh mobile number for verification) can be a costy thing. Would it also be possible to scrape public comments to public posts without being logged in (getting a new IP adress is very easy on my DSL or Cable connection).

See for example here, without being logged in: https://www.facebook.com/cnn

So since you know the underlying meachnisms: Would it be possible to enhance the scraper to scrape public posts without being logged in?

Best,

Scrapehouse