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scrape data from facebook news pages without using graph api

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scrape-fb-data

Scrape data from Facebook news pages using selenium.

Why not facebook graph api?

After the Cambridge Analytics incident, it is much more difficult and troublesome to access data through the graph api.

What data is scraped?

Most data regarding the post itself and comments. See csv files in results for more detailed info.

Purpose

Colelct data for an nlp paper on predicting the reactions of given posts or comments to Taiwanese news pages on Facebook.