Skip to main content

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
Were 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.

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,
 '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.

Project details


Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

facebook-scraper-0.1.7.tar.gz (6.7 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

facebook_scraper-0.1.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl (6.0 kB view details)

Uploaded Python 2 Python 3

File details

Details for the file facebook-scraper-0.1.7.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: facebook-scraper-0.1.7.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 6.7 kB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: twine/1.13.0 pkginfo/1.5.0.1 requests/2.21.0 setuptools/45.1.0 requests-toolbelt/0.9.1 tqdm/4.31.1 CPython/3.7.5

File hashes

Hashes for facebook-scraper-0.1.7.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 4ba9271a5b1280d6782437df426a2432bd7e7bcc3c0e476b35f28fcb83618480
MD5 bc685811b8d3eb3c86e79d20472601b1
BLAKE2b-256 5b6e7755f17fce331a8187d3bc777939ce6a653e940aa94d6cd9ce99f5ee2db4

See more details on using hashes here.

File details

Details for the file facebook_scraper-0.1.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl.

File metadata

  • Download URL: facebook_scraper-0.1.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 6.0 kB
  • Tags: Python 2, Python 3
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: twine/1.13.0 pkginfo/1.5.0.1 requests/2.21.0 setuptools/45.1.0 requests-toolbelt/0.9.1 tqdm/4.31.1 CPython/3.7.5

File hashes

Hashes for facebook_scraper-0.1.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 6291965ffec96af818dbbdd73b11126d8c685b057488c1daa9b37f466da2c625
MD5 30ab375bcfa25d0d85b4dd0fbb873bf5
BLAKE2b-256 7816e2d9a54abc1e7f1f8ed1db9604ef3b7515b4164ea9c63a880cb126f89711

See more details on using hashes here.

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page