/FBCrawler

Collect basic information and likes information from facebook users

Primary LanguagePythonOtherNOASSERTION

Crawler for collecting information of Facebook App users

Dependencies

gevent 0.13.8

Description

Crawler expects a file in CSV format containing userid and corresponding access_token infromation. Crawler fetches information of "n" users concurrently as specified by pool_size in crawler.cfg.

Configuration File (crawler.cfg)

  • source => path of the csv file containing userid and access_token information
  • pool_size => specifies the total number users to fetch concurrently
  • db_path => path of database to store fetched data
  • db_schema => schema of database
  • failed => file path to store information of the failed crawl
  • log => log file for the program

Running Crawler

  • Configure the crawler.cfg
  • run "python crawler.py"