Feature Request: request_url_callback with get_friends, get_followers and get_following

[Vanguard-52236]

Questions:

• Can get_followers & get_following be achieved with the same function than get_friends, just changing the url? can i simply copy the function, give the different url path and call it a day?
• Can request_url_callback be used with get_friends currently? This helps with generating adequat sleep between requests and avoid getting banned on big profiles.

[neon-ninja]

Hi! Could you please clarify a bit what you mean by this? Follower/following extraction is handled here: https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper/blob/9f184edf4fd726a15d8b33ae9dbd47d670092c9a/facebook_scraper/facebook_scraper.py#L459 As you can see, these just call the function get_collection, either with f'/{account}?v=followers' or f'/{account}?v=following'. There's nothing stopping you from calling this function yourself, like so:

from pprint import pprint
from facebook_scraper import _scraper
pprint(list(_scraper.get_collection(f'/rachellouiseflood?v=followers', limit=1)))

Are you asking for this functionality to be exposed in a nicer way? Like functions called get_followers and get_following, that you could call without having to call get_profile? That could be imported from facebook_scraper.

Yes, request_url_callback is supported by get_friends. See https://github.com/kevinzg/facebook-scraper/blob/9f184edf4fd726a15d8b33ae9dbd47d670092c9a/facebook_scraper/facebook_scraper.py#L195