https://github.com/harrypython/fb-regex-scraper

Scrape Facebook Public Group Posts without using Facebook API using Selenium.
https://github.com/harrypython/fb-regex-scraper

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Scrape Facebook Public Group Posts without using Facebook API using Selenium.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/harrypython/fb-regex-scraper
• Owner: harrypython
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2020-11-20T17:19:37.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-11-20T17:33:10.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-09T13:13:07.959Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 17.6 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Facebook Regex Scraper

Scrape Facebook Public Group Posts without using Facebook API using [Selenium](https://seleniumhq.github.io/docs/).

## What It can Do

- Scrape text from Public Group Posts

## Install Requirements

Please make sure Firefox is installed and [geckodriver](https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver) is available.

```sh

pip install -r requirements.txt

```

## Usage

```python

from Scrape import Scrape

scraper = Scrape("webdriver/geckodriver")

 

# pattern to find Instagram profiles. Source: regex101.com/r/uNc8HG/1

my_pattern = "@\w(?:(?:\w|(?:\.(?!\.))){0,28}(?:\w))?"

scraper.set_pattern(pattern=my_pattern)

for r in scraper.get_posts(group="123456789012345"):

    print("https://www.instagram.com/{}/".format(r.replace("@","")))

```

### Note:

- Please use this code for Educational purposes only