neon-ninja
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3 years ago Yes, I recently added a function called get_page_info in https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper/commit/adfd6da732077730d4935e22854d17aa9f2f667b / https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper/discussions/326. Actually, there's no need to resolve account name to user ID, you can pass account names to these functions too.
If you don't know whether it's a page/group/user, you can just run each of the functions and check the output. Here's some sample code:
from facebook_scraper import *
# Profile, Page, Group
accounts = ["elisamartinezfuentes", "Nintendo", "lienminhnongnghieptute"]
functions = [get_profile, get_page_info, get_group_info]
for account in accounts:
for function in functions:
try:
print(function, function(account, cookies="cookies.txt"))
except:
passoutput:
<function get_profile at 0x7fd8a54f2430> {'Name': 'Elisa Martínez Fuentes', 'Education': 'UMCC Universidad Matanzas Camilo ciefuengos\nIngeniería informática', 'Work': 'Allstate\nTest Engineer Intern\nOn May 18, 2019\nIrving, Texas\nJoyLabs\nWallbreakers Software Engineer Trainee\nIn 2019\nConroe, Texas', 'Places Lived': 'Houston, Texas\nCurrent City\nMoa, Cuba\nHometown', 'Contact Info': {'Facebook': '/elisamartinezfuentes', 'GitHub': '97morningstar', 'Instagram': '97morningstar'}, 'Basic Info': 'August 24, 1997\nBirthday\nFemale\nGender\nEspanol and English\nLanguages', 'Other Names': 'Elisa\nNickname', 'Relationship': {'to': 'Mario Bernal Jr.', 'type': 'Engaged', 'since': 'Since February 7, 2021'}, 'Family Members': 'Mi hermana\nSister\nMi papa\nFather\nMi mama\nMother\nIsmaray Martinez\nFamily member', 'Life Events': '2021\nGot Engaged to Mario Bernal Jr.\n2019\nIn a Relationship with Mario Bernal Jr.'}
<function get_page_info at 0x7fd8a54f24c0> {'name': 'Elisa Martínez Fuentes', 'identifier': 100012934538675, 'url': 'https://www.facebook.com/elisamartinezfuentes', 'image': 'https://scontent.fhlz2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-1/fr/cp0/e15/q65/74634432_755065824934562_3872097589268578304_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8d0d6e&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ohc=ctTSociQCz8AX9UVjqr&_nc_ht=scontent.fhlz2-1.fna&tp=14&oh=60191d22c4524cf806a9dae988c883ea&oe=60E96F7A', 'sameAs': None, 'dateCreated': None, 'type': 'Person'}
<function get_profile at 0x7fd8a54f2430> {'Name': 'Nintendo - About'}
<function get_page_info at 0x7fd8a54f24c0> {'name': 'Nintendo', 'identifier': 119240841493711, 'url': 'https://www.facebook.com/Nintendo/', 'image': 'https://scontent.fhlz2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-1/13138816_1025939437490509_1827627750936743506_n.png?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8d0d6e&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ohc=EVVea4o3SQ4AX_FxXMq&_nc_ht=scontent.fhlz2-1.fna&oh=4acd1086d0e2854ab8e31efff3ba4c22&oe=60EA12D2', 'sameAs': 'http://www.nintendo.com', 'dateCreated': '2011-06-01T15:23:50-0700', 'type': 'Organization', 'likes': 5412964, 'followers': 5471921}
<function get_group_info at 0x7fd8a54f2550> {'id': '627551287825967', 'name': 'LIÊN MINH NÔNG NGHIỆP TỬ TẾ', 'type': 'Public group', 'members': [{'name': 'Hoàng Nguyen', 'link': '/profile.php?id=100014268012641'}, {'name': 'Nguyễn Quốc Nam', 'link': '/profile.php?id=100015991331351'}, {'name': 'Nguyễn Thị Thu', 'link': '/thu.tqd'}, {'name': 'Thiên Vũ', 'link': '/profile.php?id=100027172146614'}, {'name': 'Trần Huế', 'link': '/profile.php?id=100025847746706'}, {'name': 'Ban Icat', 'link': '/ban.nguyenban.3'}, {'name': 'Dương Ngọc Phúc', 'link': '/profile.php?id=100007471802699'}, {'name': 'Dương Đình Tường', 'link': '/profile.php?id=100008623893421'}, {'name': 'Hà Trần Thị Thuý', 'link': '/ha.tranthithuy.1'}, {'name': 'Liên Giun Quế Ght', 'link': '/nguyenthi.lien.5'}, {'name': 'Lê Tuyền', 'link': '/lethingoctuyen1989'}, {'name': 'Nguyễn Luyến', 'link': '/profile.php?id=100008158538378'}, {'name': 'Nguyễn Phúc', 'link': '/profile.php?id=100026866214726'}, {'name': 'Phương Nguyễn Quang', 'link': '/phuong.nguyenquang.7'}, {'name': 'Quang Thai Tran', 'link': '/thaianh10001'}, {'name': 'Thu Hà', 'link': '/thuha2190'}, {'name': 'Tung Tran', 'link': '/tung.tran.33046'}, {'name': 'Tài MU', 'link': '/taimu1503'}, {'name': 'Đoàn Thanh Bình', 'link': '/profile.php?id=100003338407049'}], 'admins': [{'name': 'Hoàng Công', 'link': '/hoang.cong.79'}, {'name': 'Hoàng Nguyen', 'link': '/profile.php'}, {'name': 'Hoàng Thanh', 'link': '/hoangthanh588'}, {'name': 'Hưng Rivers East', 'link': '/HungRiversEast'}]}Some functions do work with input that doesn't match their intended use, as you can see. But you can filter by expected keys.
97morningstar
I am using this library for a research project and I want to thank you for all your hard work :)
I have a few URLs that I wish to get their profile info (About Section). The problem is that I don't know what type of User the URL belongs to (A page or regular user). Thankfully using your get_posts function I can get the user_id, but if it's a page, I can't use your get_profile for it.
It works fine for User accounts.
The format I am passing to get_posts is:
"unique name of the page"/posts/"post id"Other questions:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=495386170902530&set=pb.100012934538675.-2207520000..&type=3
But it tells me:
HTTPError: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=495386170902530&set=pb.100012934538675.-2207520000..&type=3/I am just using the code from the examples.
Example of my code:
TL;DR: I need to get the info on the public about section for Pages/Groups/Users
I apologize if this is not the correct format for an issue.