Downloads all the image and video content from Facebook ads queried on the Facebook API (focusing on political ads).
The Wesleyan Media Project tracks and analyzes all broadcast ads aired by federal and state election candidates in every media market in the country. The collected data will be leveraged by researchers to "enhance the ability of scholars, citizens, and journalists to hold government accountable by providing public information on how special interests are attempting to influence American democracy."
Get all the media links + download all images and video in batch sizes of 100.
git clone https://github.com/fredcorpuz06/fb-ads-scraper.git
cd fb-ads-scraper
python dwnld-fb-ads.py
Change batch size to 10. To provide your username and password, change ./data/fb.pw or type on terminal
python dwnld-fb-ads.py 10 yourEmail@gmail.com SecretPassword
For long downloads, use nohup to ensure your session isn't aborted
nohup python dwnld-fb-ads.py > ./output/console-log.txt &
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