kevinzg / facebook-scraper

Scrape Facebook public pages without an API key
MIT License
2.39k stars 628 forks source link

Facebook privacy policy #665

Open karish-grover opened 2 years ago

karish-grover commented 2 years ago

Hey @neon-ninja.

Could you kindly elaborate a bit on the Facebook privacy policy? Can the data that has been scraped using this tool, be published (in a conference paper)?

To be precise, the dataset I am constructing would consist of posts and user comments on them.

My plan is to not disclose the user-related information (like comments, user profile, etc) while sharing the dataset, but I might have to share the Facebook post textual content annotations in my paper. So would this be legal? I don't wish to violate any policies, so it would be great if you could shed some light on this so that I can proceed with caution.

neon-ninja commented 2 years ago

Hi, see https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper/issues/257