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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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Possibility to scrape Visitor Posts? #84

Open Katha17 opened 6 years ago

Katha17 commented 6 years ago

Hi,

I noticed, that when trying to get all posts from a company's Facebook Page, the page_post scraper only returns the posts made by the company itself. However, I would also like to download the posts and comments made by visitors to the page.

Does someone know how I can scrape these posts & comments as well?

vivek-quantiful commented 6 years ago

you can just change the node in the posts code from

node = "/{}/posts".format(page_id) to node = "/{}/visitor_posts".format(page_id)

eholderness95 commented 6 years ago

Vivek's answer will work, as will changing node = "/{}/posts".format(page_id) to node = "/{}/feed".format(page_id)

/feed returns everything on the page's feed, both posts made by visitors and by the page itself.