Open dragosrotaru opened 4 years ago
See #5
See #6
We will use this data to make a news aggregator and to keep an eye out for more data for coalition-building purposes.
I started a script in scripts/facebook-group-posts-scraper using this library: https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper
It works ok, but it doesn't work with 100% consistency, you will have to troubleshoot and maybe edit the script.
Database will be MongoDB
Schema
type Post = { id: UUID, createdAt: TimeStamp, text: string, link: URL, likes: number, shares: number, comments: number, groupID: UUID, scrapedAt: TimeStamp, scrapeID: UUID, }
Random Lib I found: https://github.com/ParvJain/Facebook-Group-Scraper (please look through)
Note on FB Scraping, Data Privacy, Future Roadmap
See #5
Pre-requisite: Seed Data
See #6
Requirements
Scraping Facebook Groups Posts
We will use this data to make a news aggregator and to keep an eye out for more data for coalition-building purposes.
I started a script in scripts/facebook-group-posts-scraper using this library: https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper
It works ok, but it doesn't work with 100% consistency, you will have to troubleshoot and maybe edit the script.
How your script will store and normalize the data
Database will be MongoDB
Schema
Misc
Random Lib I found: https://github.com/ParvJain/Facebook-Group-Scraper (please look through)