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Facepager was made for fetching public available data from YouTube, Twitter and other websites on the basis of APIs and webscraping.
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Extracting facebook group data - Error 400 #66

Closed PolinaWeb closed 7 years ago

PolinaWeb commented 7 years ago

I saw that Phoebechua had posted a similar problem a while ago, but I'm not sure about the resolution of the issue. I'm currently trying to extract the feed of a secret facebook group, of which I am a member. Every time I try, I receive an error message (400) I tried to match my settings to the one shown in the posts by phoebechua and I saw in another thread that it might help to update the base path to v2.3. Extracting data from regular facebook pages seems to work just fine, but I can't get it to work with facebook groups.

I'd be super thankful for any hints as to where I am going wrong. Attached is a screenshot of my settings and the error message.

Thank you!

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strohne commented 7 years ago

Well, what is the error message (see offcut node)?

PolinaWeb commented 7 years ago

Oh, sorry! New screenshot is attached. Unsupported get request. I'm quite sure that the ID is correct, so maybe the problem is with the privacy settings of the group? I found the screenshotted paragraph in the graph api documentation - as the group is non-public, maybe a "simple" membership is not sufficient?

Thank you!

error_facepager facebook graph api

strohne commented 7 years ago

Yes, afaik simple membership is not enough for closed groups. This results in "Unsupported Get Request"-errors. I am not sure whether admins can collect data via API. I will try it out in one of my groups later.

strohne commented 7 years ago

Just tested it: I have access to the group feed only for a group where I am admin.