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Dev version of Rfacebook package: Access to Facebook API via R
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rfacebook
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GetPage returning zero results for public pages #183

Open aheadsup opened 6 years ago

aheadsup commented 6 years ago

GetPage seems to have stopped returning results for public pages. Is there an issue or a workaround? Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.

rnlanders commented 6 years ago

I've run into the same problem, but it appears that Facebook has locked down the Groups API in response to Cambridge Analytica. I suspect the only way around it would be manual scraping (e.g., using rvest). See https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/restricting-data-access/