https://github.com/apurvmishra99/facebook-scraper-selenium

https://github.com/apurvmishra99/facebook-scraper-selenium

automated-scraper facebook-crawler facebook-groups facebook-groups-scraper facebook-pages-scraper facebook-scraper facebook-scraper-software facebook-scraper-tool facebook-scraping facebook-status-scraper selenium selenium-python selenium-scraper

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/apurvmishra99/facebook-scraper-selenium
• Owner: apurvmishra99
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2019-07-11T17:14:16.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-06-28T11:59:17.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T16:45:54.694Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: automated-scraper, facebook-crawler, facebook-groups, facebook-groups-scraper, facebook-pages-scraper, facebook-scraper, facebook-scraper-software, facebook-scraper-tool, facebook-scraping, facebook-status-scraper, selenium, selenium-python, selenium-scraper
• Language: Python
• Size: 26.4 KB
• Stars: 202
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 79
• Open Issues: 7
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# FaceBook-Scraper [2020]

_Scrape posts from any group or user into a .csv file without needing to register for any API access_

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### How to use it?

Firstly, make sure you have selenium >= 3.141.0, GeckoDriver and FireFox installed.

Store your email and password for Facebook login in credentials.txt.

Use `scraper.py` to collect the data. 

```

usage: fb-scraper/scraper.py [-h] [--pages PAGES [PAGES ...]] [--groups GROUPS [GROUPS ...]][-d DEPTH]

Data Collection

arguments:

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

  -p, --pages PAGES [PAGES ...]

                        List the pages you want to scrape

                        for recent posts

  

  -g, --groups GROUPS [GROUPS ...]

                        List the groups you want to scrape

                        for recent posts

  

  -d DEPTH, --depth DEPTH

                        How many recent posts you want to gather in

                        multiples of (roughly) 8.

```

Example: ```python scraper.py --pages feelzesty -d 20```

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The output is `posts.csv` inside the script folder.

Output is in three columns: PosterName(Author), uTime and Text