Advice on how to scrape 7 years of posts from a single public profile without getting banned?

[Strider3000]

I'm attempting to get seven years worth of posts (around 4000 posts) from a single public profile without getting banned. I don't need comments or reactions - just the basic information. I've never made it longer than about 100 days worth at this point without getting temporarily banned, and I'm wondering what techniques I should use to get facebook-scraper to get me all seven years worth of posts?

Here is the command that I'm using:

facebook-scraper -c cookies.json -p 500 -fmt json -s 60 -f profile_output.json -d 2100

Any ideas or input is appreciated. I'm fine using Python as well if that gives the flexibility that I need to accomplish my goal.

[cedriferitan]

from what I've noticed from other issues, this isn't possible with the CLI. you need to write the python script yourself and add a pause interval between requests

[Shohreh]

What about connecting through eg. Tor, without logging on?

FB would ban someone elses's IP :-p

[vitovt]

FB ban account related to your cookies, not IP. TOR and other public proxy IPs are suspicious by default and banned very quickly Without cookies you are very limited on scrapping. You receive less posts, in different order and harder limits.

[Shohreh]

Good to know

[yasavvym8]

does facebook temporarily ban your actual account? or just your ip?

[Shohreh]

I don't know. I put that on the backburner until I find a safer way to grab posts.

[Callum681]

Hi, did anyone make any progress with this issue? I'm having the same problem now