Scrape public posts from any group or user into a .csv file without needing to register for any API access
Firstly, make sure you have selenium >= 3.141.0 and FireFox installed.
Use scraper.py to collect the data.
usage: scrape.py [-h] [--pages PAGES [PAGES ...]] [-d DEPTH]
Data Collection
arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--pages PAGES [PAGES ...]
List the pages 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 DonaldTrump senatorsanders -d 20
The output is posts.csv inside the script folder.