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minimaxir / facebook-page-post-scraper

Data scraper for Facebook Pages, and also code accompanying the blog post How to Scrape Data From Facebook Page Posts for Statistical Analysis
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@ get_fb_posts_fb_page.py #79

Open vijayanandrp opened 6 years ago

vijayanandrp commented 6 years ago

I got an exception 

UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 42-43: character maps to \<undefined\>

Fixed by adding - utf-8

File - get_fb_posts_fb_page.py

def scrapeFacebookPageFeedStatus(page_id, access_token, since_date, until_date):
     with open('{}_facebook_statuses.csv'.format(page_id), 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file:
vijayanandrp commented 6 years ago

Similarly for all open() function used to read and write csv files