A simple library to collect data from facebook without the official API All the functions are made scraping and parsing mbasic.facebook.com
Made to work with facebook language set to english.
Tested with Chrome webdriver.
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Set facebook language to english
Check if facebook language is set to english
Get short versions of text of posts in profile/fanpage/group, includes images and like count
Get full version of a post or story and some of the comments, includes images and like count
Get links to all profiles that has liked a post
Get members of a group
from FacebookWebBot import *
bot=FacebookBot()
bot.set_page_load_timeout(10)
bot.login("your@email.com","yourpassword")
group_posts = bot.getShortPosts(url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/<facebookgroup_id>/, deep=10)
posts_and_comments = []
for post in group_posts:
if('story.php?story_fbid=' in post.linkToMore or '/groups/' in post.linkToMore):
posts_and_comments = posts_and_comments+bot.getFullPostWithComments(url=post.linkToMore)
postsToJsonFile(posts_and_comments, filename=('posts_and_comments', path='folder')
* Timeout on pages where images won't load.
* Not getting date from all posts
* Full posts: Story, from who, to who, text sometimes gone.
* Python 3.4
* Selenium
* Webdriver