Create Facebook-post parser

[mihanovak1024]

Create a parser for Facebook posts or specific comments into a format for non-Facebook users.

Add both Facebook .direct link to a post and the parsed format path/HTML/...

[matej2]

You might want to check this project i am working on.

[mihanovak1024]

@matej2 I'm already doing my own parser in Python out of fun, since I never programmed in Python before and looks like a good challenge. If the final product won't as I expected, I'll just look into yours. But currently, I'd rather have my own. The progress can be seen on branch issue13/facebook-post-parser. Since I have some other stuff to do right now, the development is going to take a bit longer.

[matej2]

I see you are making a browser scrapper.. This was my initial idea for my project. After few tries i found out that there is a high chance that Facebook will block account (even if it is confirmed with phone num). In this case you will have to fake headers, agent string and other parts of real request.

[matej2]

@mihanovak1024 any updates on scrapper?

[mihanovak1024]

@matej2 I forgot about this one. Will start working on it in the upcoming days.

[matej2]

Some tips for this: Ask group admin to switch to a public group for a short time, while you scrape. This way you can use a proxy to scrape. Your best option is to use old Fb (which does not use JS). If thiss still gets you blocked, use a headless=false mode.

[mihanovak1024]

https://github.com/mihanovak1024/fejstbukov-parser this is one way of parsing content for non-fb user accounts...

TODO:

• parse existing FB posts
• upload and link parsed HTMLs
• trasform to GitHub pages so HTML content can be seen

[matej2]

You could use parser in order to convert posts to markdown and then paste them in readme. I will see if I can help anywhere..

Edit: Oh, I didnt see that this is already in TODO..

[mihanovak1024]

Closing as it violates Facebook policy