Error in line 184 and 154
mparackal opened this issue · 4 comments
I am not a programmer but can find my way through codes like a blind man. So, can you help me, please? I get the following error, not sure what I am doing wrong. Also, the current Facebook API version is 2.12. This code is point to version 2.9 (base = "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.9" # line 139).
Thank you & Kind regard
Mathew
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\parma73p\Desktop\Python\get_fb_posts_fb_page.py", line 184, in
scrapeFacebookPageFeedStatus(page_id, access_token, since_date, until_date)
File "C:\Users\parma73p\Desktop\Python\get_fb_posts_fb_page.py", line 154, in scrapeFacebookPageFeedStatus
statuses = json.loads(request_until_succeed(url))
File "C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS\Statistics\24\Python3\lib\json_init_.py", line 312, in loads
s.class.name))
TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'
Hey there.
Can you share the URL you're trying to scrape data from?
thanks singh-95.
The URL is https://www.facebook.com/NZMSCAlpine/
@mparackal the script is successfully scraping data from the page you shared when I test it. Can you please share your code?
I altered the request_until_succeed to look like this and it resolved the issue for me:
def request_until_succeed(url):
req = Request(url)
success = False
while success is False:
try:
response = urlopen(req)
**res = response.read()
res = res.decode("utf-8")**
if response.getcode() == 200:
success = True
except Exception as e:
print(e)
time.sleep(5)
print("Error for URL {}: {}".format(url, datetime.datetime.now()))
print("Retrying.")
return res