koobecaf

This is a project I began to learn more about Facebook...and GitHub (I clearly don't know the syntax of GH yet!) It is messy, incomplete and lacking features. However, it should be a good starting point for someone to learn how to build their own.

Things this project can do:

• Mobile Facebook webpage login
• Navigate to specific Facebook page
• Find a determined number of posts on a specific Facebook page
• Scrape date of specific post
• Scrape text of comments
• Scrape text of comments of comments

Things this project cannot do

• Scrape actual post text
• Scrape dates of comments
• Scrape comments beyond ~85 (There is a 'View More Comments' button that must be clicked)

Methods

_log_in(user_name, password, page_to_scrape):

• Method to login to Facebook
• Provide YOUR user name and password
• Provide the page you would like to scrape

_find_posts(browser, numOfPost):

• Method to find posts of the page you have provided in previous method

_expand_comment(browser):

• Expands comments within comments

Feel free to modify the code to your will! In order to have the program run from the start, I would suggest:

• variable1 = _log_in(user_name, password, page_to_scrape) variable1 would be your browser/driver
• list1, list2 = _find_posts(browser, numOfPost) list1 would be the list to contain dates of posts/list2 would be the list to contain comments

ONE FINAL THOUGHT:

• It is my understanding that it is against Facebook Terms of Service to scrape data on users without their consent. That is why I did not focus on saving user names. Also, the post text was not scraped because for my particular project, it was not information that I was seeking. If you have any questions, feel free to comment here and I will do my best to assist you. This code works with Facebook as of 1/6/2021.

IF YOU SEE YOUR CODE HERE:

I apologize for not citing you. I gathered information from a number of sources. If you would like to be noted as a contributor, please contact me.