Scrape Facebook public pages without an API key.
Project description
Facebook Scraper
Scrape Facebook public pages without an API key. Inspired by twitter-scraper.
Install
pip install facebook-scraper
Usage
Send the unique page name as the first parameter and you're good to go:
>>> from facebook_scraper import get_posts
>>> for post in get_posts('nintendo', pages=1):
... print(post['text'][:50])
...
The final step on the road to the Super Smash Bros
We’re headed to PAX East 3/28-3/31 with new games
Optional parameters
- group: group id, to scrape groups instead of pages. Default is
None. - pages: how many pages of posts to request, usually the first page has 2 posts and the rest 4. Default is 10.
- timeout: how many seconds to wait before timing out. Default is 5.
- sleep: how many seconds to sleep between each request. Default is 0.
- credentials: tuple of user and password to login before requesting the posts. Default is
None. - extra_info: bool, if true the function will try to do an extra request to get the post reactions. Default is False.
Post example
{'post_id': '2257188721032235',
'text': 'Don’t let this diminutive version of the Hero of Time fool you, '
'Young Link is just as heroic as his fully grown version! Young Link '
'joins the Super Smash Bros. series of amiibo figures!',
'time': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 29, 12, 0, 1),
'image': 'https://scontent.flim16-1.fna.fbcdn.net'
'/v/t1.0-0/cp0/e15/q65/p320x320'
'/58680860_2257182054366235_1985558733786185728_n.jpg'
'?_nc_cat=1&_nc_ht=scontent.flim16-1.fna'
'&oh=31b0ba32ec7886e95a5478c479ba1d38&oe=5D6CDEE4',
'likes': 2036,
'comments': 214,
'shares': 0,
'reactions': {'like': 135, 'love': 64, 'haha': 10, 'wow': 4, 'anger': 1}, # if `extra_info` was set
'post_url': 'https://m.facebook.com/story.php'
'?story_fbid=2257188721032235&id=119240841493711',
'link': 'https://bit.ly/something'}
Notes
- There is no guarantee that every field will be extracted (they might be
None). - Shares doesn't seem to work at the moment.
- Group posts are only from one page.
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