I was trying to do freelancing with photo edit, nothing professional, just a casual edit for Instagram per example.
So i decide to share my job in Facebook, but was so bad running in every group, write and selecting the same images every time
It was there, that i decide to create this code, a very simple usage of Selenium for automate this boring task.
I used mbasic.facebook to do this, it's a old facebook version, the normal Facebook version is a SPA (Single Page Application), SPA's are rendering on front-end, the CSS classes's and id's names doesn't make any sense, making automation libraries (and my) life's hard. Is not impossible to do this in normal Facebook, but it's a little bit harder, so, let's continue making things simple.
This is a very junior code, project's organization is not the best. I will try to grow-up this in the future, when my knowledge in Python evolve
First of all, you have to has Google Chrome installed in your computer, if you doesn't, just Download Here
Clone this repository in our local machine with:
git clone https://github.com/FerFR/auto_post_facebook_group.git
Access the folder with:
cd auto_post_facebook_group
Now, open with your favorite IDE, in this case i will be using Visual Studio Code:
code .
The project structure:
Install project's dependencies on requirements.txt:
pip install -r requirements.txt
This requirements.txt contains all projects dependencies, is very common to see this on most Python projects
Now, how have to rename this .env.example file for .env
cp .env.example .env
In this file, in will see some environment variables:
- FACEBOOK_LOGIN = You will put your Facebook login
- FACEBOOK_PASSWORD = You will put your Facebook password
- DELAY_FOR_EACH_POST = It's a time to wait on every post completed in seconds
- SKIP_IF_GROUP_NOT_FOUND = If page not found, will continue for the next group link
- DEBUG = If debug is equal True, the post will not occour
.env means environment file, on this file, will have all of your config and sensitive data about your project, like password, api-keys, and more. This is usefull for easily setup your development and production environment, not needing hard-core all this data again.
This is most importanting folder:
- On files folder, will contain the imagens, videos, or gifs what you want to attach
- post.txt will contain your post text content
- groups.txt will be list of links of all groups you want to make a post
You can write on Facebook, with emojis, and copy and paste here
This is only three supported url format
Will contain just a image for example
